{"id":822,"date":"2010-08-13T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=822"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:27:12","slug":"the-jayhawks-the-jayhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/the-jayhawks-the-jayhawks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jayhawks + The Jayhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Jayhawks-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-823\" title=\"The-Jayhawks-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Jayhawks-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"The Jayhawks\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Jayhawks-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-Jayhawks-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The Jayhawks <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> The Jayhawks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Lost Highway]<\/p>\n<p>In 1986 a young band from Minnesota released its self-titled first album, pressing only 2,000 vinyl copies on a small local label called Bunkhouse Records. The Jayhawks went on to find a national audience for their peculiarly Midwestern blend of rock and country, highlighted by the harmonic and creative interplay between singer-songwriters Mark Olson and Gary Louris. As the group\u2019s influence grew and its sound evolved (especially after Olson\u2019s 1995 defection), fans longed to get their hands on <em>The Jayhawks<\/em>\u2014the out-of-print collector\u2019s item typically referred to as \u201cThe Bunkhouse Tapes.\u201d Interest in the band has been revitalized recently by the reunion of Olson and Louris, first as an acoustic duo and lately fronting the Jayhawks once again. Last year\u2019s compilation <em>Music From the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology<\/em> served to cement the stature of the band\u2019s recorded legacy in the public mind, clearing the way at last for this reissue of <em>The Jayhawks<\/em>. Given the sonic avenues the group explored later on, which by the time of 2000\u2019s <em>Smile<\/em> included slickly sophisticated pop, the Jayhawks\u2019 debut is striking in its sheer rootsy conservatism. This is a more traditional country band than most of its fans ever heard, twanging its way through a set of 13 originals that highlights its leaders\u2019 inchoate songwriting chops while illustrating how far they had yet to travel. For fans well aware of how drastically the group evolved during its recording career\u2014and newly hopeful about that career\u2019s possible continuation\u2014<em>The Jayhawks<\/em> is a vital missing link.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jayhawks The Jayhawks [Lost Highway] In 1986 a young band from Minnesota released its self-titled first album, pressing only 2,000 vinyl copies on a small local label called Bunkhouse Records. The Jayhawks went on to find a national audience for their peculiarly Midwestern blend of rock and country, highlighted by the harmonic and creative [&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":[196,446,70,325,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}