This week we’re diving into a few old faithful bands (at least to No Depression‘s audience), their latest records, and what (if any) new tricks these alt-country dogs have learned from years and years on the road and in our […]
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It’s been kind of … newsy … this week, y’all. We’re thankful for music to soothe troubled hearts and to help speak our minds when sometimes it’s hard to find words. (Check here for a roundup of reactions to President […]
Although I cannot fully explain why — maybe the diversity of the songs and a vocal harmony or two — I mention to Jayhawks leader Gary Louris that I detect The Beatles (White Album) in the excellent new Jayhawks album, […]
If I was a baseball player you might say I’m in a slump. I feel as though, when I’m up to bat, I swing at air. If a ball speeds toward me, I reach up to catch but it just sails through […]
The Dreaming Spires’ list of influences doesn’t differ dramatically from that of other aspiring Americana artists in the UK. The Byrds, the Burrito Brothers, and other purveyors of Southern California’s sun-dappled 1960s-’70s sound radiate from this band’s two releases – […]
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 […]
Whether the Jayhawks’ day in the sun will ever come seems perhaps a moot point today. In a perfect world, one could have envisioned the Minneapolis band reaching the same kind of commercial peak as, say, the Counting Crows, but […]
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 […]
These import maxi-singles (or CD-5s, as they’re called in the record biz) by three estimable bands adhere to the template for this configuration: Each leads off with a single from the current album, followed by three non-LP tracks. Included are […]
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