Artist: Jayhawks
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Thorns / Jayhawks – Showbox (Seattle, WA)
Since Pete Droge lives just outside Seattle, the Thorns’ Showbox gig felt like something of a homecoming. “It’s nice to be back in the correct time zone,” he joked after the band played “Runaway Feeling” from the recent self-titled debut of his collaboration with Matthew Sweet and Shawn Mullins. In concert, this semi-supergroup emphasizes three-part [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Jayhawks – Blue Earth
While technically not the Jayhawks’ debut (that would be the eponymous collection of songs from 1986 usually referred to as the Bunkhouse album), Blue Earth, released in 1989, was the record that first garnered national attention for the Minneapolis band and specifically the partnership of Mark Olson and Gary Louris. Their kinship was established right [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Jayhawks – Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
For years, it seems Minnesotans have waited for the Jayhawks to become rock stars. It started with the critical buzz surrounding 1992′s Hollywood Town Hall, picked up speed when “Blue” became a minor hit in 1995, and was fueled by the rock ‘n’ roll swagger of the band’s shows behind Sound Of Lies and Smile. [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #38 March-April 2002
Jayhawks – Bowery Ballroom (New York City, NY)
One of this night’s covers was a chugging old David Wiffen obscurity that fell off the last Byrds LP and onto Roger McGuinn’s first solo outing, the one that confides, “I feel like some old engine that’s Lost My Drivin’ Wheel.” Fans who packed this downtown Manhattan venue for the last night of this stripped-down, [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #27 May-June 2000
The Jayhawks – Outside the wall
Before Uncle Tupelo joined the major-label ranks by signing to Sire/Reprise for their 1993 swan song, producer and label impresario Rick Rubin — a man instrumental in launching the careers of the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy — signed a roots band from Minneapolis to his Warner-distributed label, Def American. There, the Jayhawks — at [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #17 Sept-Oct 1998
Jayhawks – Lounge Ax (Chicago, IL)
Guitarist Gary Louris and keyboardist Karen Grotberg took the stage alone for the opening song of the encore of this rare small-venue appearance by Minneapolis band the Jayhawks. After the first chords, Louris stopped with a laugh. He’d forgotten the words. Fans helpfully hollered. “I’ve been gettin’ by…”, to which he responded, “Thanks…fuckin’ poetry.” What [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Jayhawks – Tomorrow’s grass is Greene-r
In the wake of the departure of co-founder Mark Olson, Minneapolis band the Jayhawks invited a couple of musicians to the recording sessions for Sound Of Lies , which came out in April on American Recordings. Guitarist Kraig Johnson, best known in the Twin Cities as a member of Run Westy Run, had worked with [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Jayhawks – Riviera Theater (Chicago, IL)
Gary Louris’ tenor lilts and lifts, effortlessly exploring a natural landscape, untethered from its familiar mate. He stands as if at home, singing like he means it, but in some soft way — no strain, no pressure. This just is, he seems to say, breathing poetry as if it were ordinary air. Jessy Greene dances [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Jayhawks – Sound of Lies
The situation is eerily similar, when you think about it. Both bands formed in the mid-’80s in the Midwest and had co-leaders who generally wrote separately yet shared songwriting credits on all their material. Both drew caringly from the deep well of country music’s legacy, though their day-to-day existences were firmly rooted in the American [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #2 Winter 1995
Jayhawks – The Backstage (Seattle, WA)
They’d been there for years, those gaudy silver spray-paint stars splashed across the northern and western walls of First Avenue/7th Street Entry, the legendary double-venue situated in the center of Minneapolis and at the heart of the Twin Cities music scene. It was a vintage Minneapolitan touch, a graffiti-style punk-rock takeoff on the bronze-and-concrete slabs [...]
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