Jason & The Scorchers - Find You

What this video is

Released in 1989 as a single from Thunder and Fire (A&M Records), 'Find You' arrived at the twilight of the cowpunk movement's brief mainstream moment. Jason & the Scorchers — formed in Nashville in 1981 — had spent the decade pioneering a fusion of punk aggression and country roots that predated and helped catalyze the alt-country boom of the 1990s. By 1989, signed to A&M after being dropped by EMI, the band…

Why it matters

As one of the seminal cowpunk bands — described by critics as blazing the trail for alt-country — Jason & the Scorchers' late-period single 'Find You' is a key document of the genre's commercial ceiling. The fast-paced video production reflects the band's reputation as one of the hardest-working…