{"id":4209,"date":"2011-11-06T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2011-11-06T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T20:11:34","slug":"the-jayhawks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/11\/the-jayhawks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE JAYHAWKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-JAYHAWKS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4210\" title=\"M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-JAYHAWKS\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-JAYHAWKS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-JAYHAWKS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-THE-JAYHAWKS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE JAYHAWKS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Mockingbird Time<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rounder]<\/p>\n<p>The big news for fans of this quintessential alt-country band is that <em>Mockingbird Time<\/em> is the first new studio release since 1995 to feature the Jayhawks\u2019 original co-frontmen, Gary Louris and Mark Olson. Reunions can be iffy, but the Jayhawks have marshaled their strengths and assembled a recording truly worthy of their stellar reputation. The omnipresent close harmonies, smart songcraft, instantly memorable melodies and effervescent guitars are all in place\u2014<em>Mockingbird Time<\/em> is classic Jayhawks from the first notes of its opening track, \u201cHide Your Colors.\u201d After an introductory wallop of Neil Young-ish chords, Louris and Olson are in full Everly Brothers mode; the song wends along at a loping pace through a trippy late-Beatles orchestral interlude, bold piano and subtle turns. It cascades and escalates steadily, leading up to a breathtaking denouement\u2014and that\u2019s only the first four minutes. For once it appears that an extended vacation did some good for an already great band. \u2013J. Tamarkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE JAYHAWKS Mockingbird Time [Rounder] The big news for fans of this quintessential alt-country band is that Mockingbird Time is the first new studio release since 1995 to feature the Jayhawks\u2019 original co-frontmen, Gary Louris and Mark Olson. Reunions can be iffy, but the Jayhawks have marshaled their strengths and assembled a recording truly worthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2657,164,2615,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}