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Jason Ringenberg
Day at the Farm With Farmer Jason
Genres: Country, Pop, Rock, Children's Music

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Get Up Up Up!
2. A Guitar Pickin' Chicken
3. Whoa There Pony!
4. The Tractor Goes Chug Chug
5. I'm Just An Old Crow
6. He's A Hog Hog Hog
7. The Doggie Dance
8. Little Kitty
9. Corny Corn
10. Hey Little Lamb
11. Sundown On The Farm

CD Details

All Artists: Jason Ringenberg
Title: Day at the Farm With Farmer Jason
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Yep Roc Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2003
Re-Release Date: 10/21/2003
Genres: Country, Pop, Rock, Children's Music
Styles: Country Rock, Roots Rock, Sing-A-Longs
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 634457205529

Synopsis

Amazon.com

You don't need to know that Jason Ringenberg (former frontman of Jason & the Scorchers) is an alt-country luminary to appreciate his first kids' record, but it helps. For one thing, if you're already familiar with his rodeo-rowdy yelps, they aren't so surprising in a song like "The Guitar Pickin' Chicken," and for another, the obvious enjoyment he takes in recording quacky numbers like "Whooaa There Pony!" and the rootin'-tootin' rocker "He's a Hog Hog Hog" come across as less weird. Anybody new to Ringenberg, though--toddlers, teens, and beyond--can harvest a tractor load of fun here, too. Hitch a ride on the bucking guitars and banjos of Ringenberg and multitalented George Bradfute, and the backporch is left way behind. Part hillbilly hootenanny and part rockabilly rave-up, A Day at the Farm will find Old McDonald hollering "e-i-e-i-o" with envy. --Tammy La Gorce

CD Reviews

Farmer Jason Rocks!

Dave Mowbray | Bogalusa, LA United States | 05/24/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have three daughters and live on a farm. They love music, but I've heard enough kiddy songs to have a gag reflex! "I love you, you love me more, Barney's a closet carnivore ..." Blah, blah, blah... (OK, I made that up.)With Farmer Jason, you get music that you AND your kids both like. Lots of good easy, often humorous lyrics with a rockabilly beat. "Hey Little Lamb" has a Cajun twang to it, "Old Cow" has a guitar intro that will remind you of Folsom Prison Blues, and the album is bookended by numbers that are perfect for both getting up and going to bed. Not a bad lick on the CD. If you want to have some fun WITH your kids for a change, buy this one."Farmer" Dave"

Alt.country for the younger set

hyperbolium | Earth, USA | 01/17/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Having brought alt.country to Nashville with his early-80s band, The Scorchers, Ringenberg's released a series of adventurous solo works over the past few years. His latest takes listeners through a day at the farm, featuring eleven original children's songs that work hard from the rooster's first crow to the last cricket-backed rays of sundown.The farm-raised Ringenberg has an ear for barnyard rhythms, inventively creating chickens from guitars, horses hooves from banjo strums, cows from cellos, and tractor engines from wah-wah guitars. The lyrics combine educational themes with flights of fancy, but remain elemental enough for young children to learn and sing over and over.Ringenberg brings along the breadth of his earlier work, with guitar sounds that include strummed acoustics, bluegrass picking, tic-tac electrics and rock power chords. Fats Kaplin's banjo, fiddle and accordion add a twangy edge, including the Zydeco-influence of "Hey Little Lamb." Farmer Jason's musical farm is a blue-ribbon feast to be enjoyed by children and parents alike."

Great music, catchy lyrics

Loretta Farmington | 11/09/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a fabulous record for kids. There's just nothing not to like. Good music, catchy lyrics, charming narration. Some kids records are condescending or a little too woo-woo-dance-around-the-maypole, but this one is down to earth and certainly a lot more relevant to my country child's life than freakin' Raffi.Plus, "Hey Little Lamb" kinda rocks!"