The Jayhawks
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The Jayhawks are an American alternative country - band .
biography
The band formed in Minnesota in 1985 . The founding members were Mark Olson (acoustic guitar and vocals), Gary Louris (electric guitar and vocals), Marc Perlman (bass) and Thad Spencer (drums). Their self-titled debut album was released in 1986. They achieved more popularity with Blue Earth in 1987. At that time, the music written by Olson showed very strong roots rock and country influences .
On her 1992 album Hollywood Town Hall , which was primarily recorded in the Pachyderm Recording Studio , Louris was much more involved in the creation of the songs. The album was very successful and is now considered one of the classic alternative country albums. The band toured extensively and then recorded the album Tomorrow The Green Grass (1995). The production was very expensive and the sales of the record fell short of expectations. Well-known pieces on the album include "Miss Williams' Guitar" (a love song to Olson's lover at the time and now wife, the musician Victoria Williams ).
In 1995, Olson left the band to spend more time with Williams. They later formed the band Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers . The Jayhawks continued to record, but stopped playing Olson's more folk and roots-oriented songs. On Sound of Lies (1997) Louris wrote almost all of the songs. The influence of straight rock in the ironic "Big Star", psychedelia , acoustic elements z. B. in the title track and even some dub elements were mixed together, while the country orientation of the beginning took a back seat.
Smile (2000), produced by Bob Ezrin , was more of a pop album, which some of the old fans didn't like. The album received good reviews in the New York Times , but the newspaper alluded to the fact that the band went largely unnoticed with the headline: “What if you made a classic and no one cared?” (“What is it like to listen to a classic and nobody cares? ”) The song“ I'm Gonna Make You Love Me ”was used in a Ralph Lauren commercial and also in the 2001 film All Over the Guy .
Rainy Day Music (2003) was again little produced and acoustically, as in the songs "Tailspin", "Stumbling Through the Dark", "You Look So Young". Stephen McCarthy, ex-member of the Long Ryders joined the band and played pedal steel, lap steel and banjo on the album as well as electric guitar on live shows.
Olson and Louris toured in 2005 as "From the Jayhawks: An Evening with Mark Olson & Gary Louris, Together Again".
Discography
- The Jayhawks (1985) (also known as Bunkhouse Tapes )
- Blue Earth (1986, re-released in 2003)
- Hollywood Town Hall (1992)
- Tomorrow the Green Grass (1995)
- Sound of Lies (1997)
- Smile (2000)
- Rainy Day Music (2003)
- Live from the Women's Club (Vol. 1 and 2)
- Music from the North Country - The Jayhawks Anthology (2009)
- The Jayhawks (2010) (also known as Bunkhouse Tapes , re-release "Digitally Remastered")
- Tomorrow the Green Grass (Legacy Edition) (2011) (Double CD: Digitally Remastered + The Mystery Demos)
- Mockingbird Time (2011)
- Paging Mr. Proust (2016)
- Back Roads and Abandoned Motels (2018)
- Xoxo (2020)