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The Jayhawks: Bunkhouse 1989 Blue Earth: Twin/Tone: 1992 Hollywood Town Hall: 192 11 American: 1995 Tomorrow the Green Grass: 92 41 1997 Sound of Lies: 112 61 2000 Smile: 129 60 2003 Rainy Day Music: 51 70 2011 Mockingbird Time: 38 2 92 Rounder: 2016 Paging Mr. Proust: 75 51 Thirty Tigers: 2018 Back Roads and Abandoned Motels: Legacy Recordings ...
The lead track, "Blue", was a Top 40 hit in Canada (peaking at No. 33), but the record's production had been very expensive and the album failed to sell as expected in the U.S. [5] Among the album's songs is "Miss Williams' Guitar", a love song for Olson's then-girlfriend, singer-songwriter Victoria Williams (the pair later married, but ...
[7] Pitchfork reviewer Andrew Bryant agreed that the first half surpasses the second, stating that the latter songs "simply sound forced, pushing the combination of what constitutes alt-country and folk-rock to its limit of self-parody, and at times irreversibly crossing that line", calling the album "the sound of a dog (or more appropriately a ...
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Jason Ankeny wrote that "if Hollywood Town Hall is inarguably the Jayhawks' best album, Tomorrow the Green Grass runs a very close second", noting that the album's "eclectic approach pointed the way to the sound and style of the fine records the Louris-led version of the band would go on to make ...
Music From The North Country – The Jayhawks Anthology is a compilation album by The Jayhawks, released in 2009. An expanded version was also released with a DVD of videos and a disc of demos, b-sides, and out-takes.
In 2011 the Jayhawks reunited and recorded a new album, Mockingbird Time. The lineup consisted of Mark Olson, Gary Louris, Marc Perlman, Karen Grotberg, and Tim O'Reagan. At that time Louris said, "Our goal is to make the best Jayhawks album that's ever been done". Eighteen songs were recorded, 16 of them new, but only 12 were included on the ...
[4] PopMatters called the album "a triumph" and "All of the classic signifiers of a Jayhawks album are here—the sublime harmonies, the folk-rock jangle, the wry takes on relationships, and an eye always tuned to the impermanence of things—but with Karen Grotberg and Tim O'Reagan each taking lead on two of the album's cuts, the band plays ...
In 2011 the Jayhawks reunited and recorded a new album. The lineup consisted of Olson, Louris, Perlman, Karen Grotberg, and Tim O'Reagan, and, as Louris says, "Our goal is to make the best Jayhawks album that's ever been done". The album, Mockingbird Time, was released September 20. The band toured in support. In 2012 Olson again left the band. [9]