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The Jayhawks are an American rock band, sometimes described as Alt-country, or more often today, Americana. They released six studio albums on the American Recordings label. As of mid-2005 they are both rumored to have disbanded, and not to have. Image File history File links The_Jayhawks-Tomorrow_the_Green_Grass_(album_cover). ...
Image File history File links The_Jayhawks-Tomorrow_the_Green_Grass_(album_cover). ...
Tomorrow the Green Grass is a 1995 album by The Jayhawks. ...
Alternative country can refer to several ideas. ...
Americana (music) is a loose subset of American roots music, that is perhaps best defined as classic American music -- ranging in style from folk, country blues, bluegrass, Alternative country, and Roots Rock. ...
American Recordings is a Los Angeles-based record label headed by record producer Rick Rubin. ...
The band formed in 1985 in Minnesota with Mark Olson (acoustic guitar and vocals), Gary Louris (electric guitar and vocals), Marc Perlman (bass) and Thad Spencer (drums). They released a self-titled album in 1986 on Bunkhouse Records. Their music at the time, written by Olson, showed a strong roots/country-rock influence. The band worked for the next year on demo tapes in search of a major label recording contract. Those demos eventually were brought together to form the more popular Blue Earth in 1987 released on the Minneapolis label Twin Tone. In this release Gary Louris shared more of the songwriting with Olson. The band soon toured the U.S. in support of Blue Earth. Thad decided to leave the band due to commitments at home with his business and he was replaced by Ken Callahan on drums in 1987 and stayed with the band until 1993, being forced out after the HTH session. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
On their 1992 release, Hollywood Town Hall, recorded primarily in Los Angeles and at Pachyderm Recording Studio in Minnesota. Though Louris' fuzzy guitar was at the forefront, a clear folksy influence was also emerging in Olson's songwriting. The album was a hit, powered by the single "Waiting for the Sun", and it brought the Jayhawks a wider fanbase. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
The Pachyderm Recording Studio, located in rural Cannon Falls, Minnesota southeast of the Twin Cities, is one of the most famous recording studios in Minnesota, perhaps second after Princes Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis. ...
Having added Karen Grotberg on the keyboards, the band toured extensively and went into the studio to produce Tomorrow the Green Grass in 1995, but the record's production had been very expensive and the album failed to sell as expected. Among the album's songs is "Miss Williams' Guitar" (a love song for Olson's flame, and now wife, the singer-songwriter Victoria Williams). 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Victoria Williams (born December 23, 1958) is a singer/songwriter, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana but for the length of her career a resident of Southern California. ...
Olson left the band in 1995 to spend more time with Williams (with whom he would later form the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers). The band (now with Tim O'Reagan on drums) continued to record as The Jayhawks, though no longer performed songs written by Olson. They released Sound of Lies in 1997, with Louris composing most of the songs and allowing all of his influences a share in the proceedings. The result mixed straight rock (the ironic "Big Star"), psychedelic, acoustic (the title track) and even some dub elements, taking the band far from its country-influenced origins. The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers are an Americana group formed by the iconoclastic songwriter Mark Olson and his wife Victoria Williams after Olson left his previous band The Jayhawks. ...
Smile (2000), produced by Bob Ezrin, had more of a pop music feel, which was unpopular with some long-time fans. The New York Times positively reviewed the album but, in a nod to the band's lack of widespread recognition, titled the review "What if you made a classic and no one cared?" The song "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" appeared in a Ralph Lauren commercial, and the 2001 film All Over the Guy. Bob Ezrin (born 1949 in Toronto, Ontario) is a musician and legendary record producer. ...
Cover Time magazine Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz on October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive. ...
All Over the Guy is an American gay comedy romantic movie directed by Julie Davis in 2001. ...
Rainy Day Music (2003), the band's last album to date, was more stripped down and acoustic ("Tailspin," "Stumbling Through the Dark," "You Look So Young"). Ex-Long Ryder Stephen McCarthy joined the band as something between a sideman and a member, adding pedal steel, lap steel and banjo to the album, and electric guitar to subsequent live shows. Stephen lives in Richmond, VA and often plays with Johnny Hott and The Piedmont Suprize. The Long Ryders (Sid Griffin, guitar and vocals; Stephen McCarthy, guitar and vocals; Tom Stevens, bass and vocals; Greg Sowders, drums) are an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s and originally associated with a movement sometimes called the Paisley Underground. ...
Johnny Hott was the drummer for the House of Freaks, a musical duo with singer/guitarist Bryan Harvey. ...
In addition to their studio albums, the Jayhawks Live From the Women's Club, an all-acoustic live record sold only at concerts as an "Official Jayhawks Bootleg." It includes the original version of "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" called "Someone Will". A follow-up, "Live From the Women's Club 2," features a cover of Tim Hardin's "Reason To Believe" and a rendition of "Jennifer Save Me" from Golden Smog, the alt/country supergroup of which Louris was a founding member (and which Perlman later joined). Tim Hardin (December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980) was a United States folk musician and composer who was a part of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene and performer at the Woodstock Festival. ...
Golden Smog is a loosely connected group of musicians comprised, at various times, of members of Soul Asylum, the Replacements, Wilco, The Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, The Honeydogs and Big Star. ...
Olson and Louris toured together in the spring of 2005, billed as "From the Jayhawks: An Evening with Mark Olson & Gary Louris, Together Again." Both old and new Jayhawks members have now progressed to solo efforts, and the band as a whole is generally considered to be broken up, and not expected to produce new material anytime soon. However the band members appear to keep in touch and have been known to "reunite" at recent Golden Smog and benefit shows.
Albums Third album by country rock revivalists The Jayhawks, released in 1992. ...
Tomorrow the Green Grass is a 1995 album by The Jayhawks. ...
Sound of Lies is the fifth album released by Minneapolis music group Jayhawks. ...
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