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The Jayhawks. Wow, what a band. Is it a shame that they are one of the most overlooked groups in modern popular music? Yes, and my sympathies to them for that. But as a long time diehard fan (jumped on the bus with the biggest surge of their career - Tomorrow The Green Grass) I've never let that sway me from pure enjoyment of their tunes, from mellow to raucous. So I'll start with the likely first question, "Why the asterisk?" This is a replacement CD for my original that has been misplaced (it's around somewhere but I'm tired of looking for it), and with CD prices at all-time lows due to the advent of higher quality, more portable lossy formats (and/or less discriminating ears) I ordered it on the cheap. Turns out this is the second CD from American Records that I've bought that has a nasty clicking sound in the rotation. One of the discs of Rainy Day Music does the same thing, which leads me to believe it's a company defect (happens in any player, and other discs do not behave this way). Solution - crank it up and drown out that annoying noise !
Beyond that this album easily makes my Top 10 list - the band is easily Top Five with The Dead, Dylan, John Prine, and a rotation of various bluesmen. I've had it in my car's player for over two weeks now, and I'm not the least bit tired of it or of singing every song at the top of my off-key lungs on my 40-minute commute to work. Every track is sublime, with Think About It, It's Up To You, and Big Star as my fave favorites. The way this band alternately rocks and chills with such aplomb is amazing. The fact that group co-founder Mark Olson is absent in this incarnation of The Jayhawks is a curiosity, and it's obvious that his partner Gary Louris takes the opportunity to spread his wings - this is essentially a solo album with the exception of Tim O'Reagan's very fine Bottomless Cup. I've only been able to see the band perform once - a few years back when Olson had reunited with them. It was great fun, but the chemistry was more curious still as they did not play any songs from the Olson-less Jayhawks (very Waiting For The Sun - Tomorrow - Rainy Day centric). Sound Of Lies is certainly the band's most rockin' work, and while the harmonies of Louris-Olson are (or should be) the stuff of legend, Louris' voice is versatile throughout this album and herein proves to be very capable of stand alone work. Having Marc Perlman as occasional writing partner along with O'Reagan and (wonderful !) keyboardist Karen Grotberg on backup vocals fills these songs to the brim.
Quite simply - when you find some way/format by which to play this music, I predict it will be done frequently.
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