Tag Archives: Jayhawks
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REVIEW: The Jayhawks make the Chapel jump for joy on a rainy Sunday
SAN FRANCISCO — Two veteran American bands had two-day stands in San Francisco this past weekend, both with loyal fan bases and generous back catalogs from which to draw. But only one of those groups had new material to offer. Unlike The Eagles, who leaned almost entirely on songs from…
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REVIEW: Gary Louris of the Jayhawks breaks past roots rock on ‘Jump for Joy’
Gary Louris has been best known as the longtime leader of the Jayhawks, a Minneapolis-based band that once was one of the leading lights of the Americana movement. But over almost four decades, that band evolved into a more pop-oriented, less definable (but no less appealing) outfit. Jump for…
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The 75 best albums of 2020: 50-41
The best albums of 2020 include (clockwise from top left): The Jayhawks, Lady Gaga, Royce da 5’9”, Poppy, MisterWives, The Weeknd, Donna Missal, Caleb Landry Jones, Songhoy Blues and Homeboy Sandman. Welcome back to RIFF’s top album countdown! If you’re here just to complain about the order or lack…
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REVIEW: Jayhawks’ faithful ‘Sound of Lies’ livestream rings true
The Jayhawks perform in Minnesota during their livestream on Nov. 29, 2020. Courtesy: Mandolin. Sound of Lies was the perfect album for the Jayhawks to showcase their talents on a livestream broadcast. The performance of that 1997 album on the Mandolin streaming platform Sunday night came from a band…
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Jayhawks let themselves be guided by other voices on ‘XOXO’
Longtime Jayhawks leader Gary Louris has been saying he wanted to get his bandmates more involved in songwriting and singing lead than they have been on the band’s last several releases. XOXO The Jayhawks SHAM/Thirty Tigers, July 10 8/10 That has now happened, to highly satisfying effect, on XOXO,…