The Jayhawks reunite
The group will headline the Basilica Block Party in Minneapolis on July 10. that will be the first time key players Mark Olson and Gary Louris have played with The Jayhawks in more than 10 years. The second date is the Primavira Sound '09 Festival in Barcelona, Spain on May 30.
Olson left the group after a tour in support of "Tomorrow the Green grass" in 1995. Olson and Louris reunited in 2001 and later released an album, "Ready for the Flood," produced by Chris Robinson of Black Crowes. Olson and Louris have toured behind the disc.
"We've both been playing a lot the last couple of years," Olson told Billboard.com. "Gary had a solo record. I had a solo record. And then we made this record together, and we've been touring on that. During the course of this time we'd been contacted by some promoters in Spain. There's quite a fan base there, its a place where they played the Jayhawks records a lot. We played at a festival is the Basque region last August."
The line-up will be Karen Grotberg, Tim O'Reagan and Marc Perlman.
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Attempting to assign a specific sound to The Jayhawks is a bit like trying to pin a paper tail on a live donkey. The Minneapolis outfit, fronted by co-founders Mark Olson and Gary Louris, began life in the '80s as a country rock band, but found its greatest critical success in the early '90s with the rootsy alternative rock folk of "Hollywood Town Hall" and "Tomorrow the Green Grass," which blended the band's natural rock leanings with its upper Midwest Bob Dylan heritage. ...
The Jayhawks' "Back Roads and Abandoned Motels" is an album mostly made up of songs front man Gary Louris wrote or co-wrote for other projects, ranging from the Dixie Chicks to Jakob Dylan. For the most part, these songs just sound like great Jayhawks songs because that Louris vocal quiver is one of Americana music's most recognizable and heart-tugging sonic signatures.
Therefore, it's momentarily off-putting when Karen Grotberg takes the lead on album-opener "Come ...
The Minneapolis-based alt.-country/roots rock stalwart The Jayhawks is back at it again in the wake of the most recent split between founding members Gary Louris and Mark Olson. If longtime devotees had any reservations about the band's first studio album in nearly half a decade and the first without Olson since 2003, the sunny acoustic rock sound and trademark harmony vocals of "Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces," the lead track on "Paging Mr. Proust," should put them at ease. ...
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