The Jayhawks went on to release three more albums without Olson, including the New York Times -lauded Smile and the folky Rainy Day Music, before the band declared a hiatus in 2005.

My favorite band is usually the band that you can’t really say there is another band that sounds exactly like them. And I think you can say that about the Jayhawks.

On the Jayhawks ' tenth studio album, Back Roads and Abandoned Motels, the band didn’t have to look terribly far to find untapped treasures to help ignite their creative spark. Back Roads and ...

In a recent Rolling Stone article, Jonathan Bernstein called the Jayhawks “Americana’s most underappreciated band,” adding “the band has always been too pop-oriented, and too British ...

As his old band, now led by Gary Louris, carries on again without him, former Jayhawks co-frontman Mark Olson talks about the issues that led to their rupture. When Minnesota's best-known ...

Band member Marc Perlman told the Times: "I wish we were huge rock stars, but we're not." But they just might get the chance with Rainy Day Music, the Jayhawks' latest effort, this time on the ...

" The Jayhawks are definitely over." So said Gary Louris, who co-founded the seminal nouveau country-rock band 21 years ago and kept it going for a full decade after his original songwriting ...

The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris Reflects on Working With Ray Davies, Dixie Chicks & Writing an Album With Emerson Hart In their 33 years as a band, Minneapolis roots rock greats The Jayhawks have ...

For much of the set, the band was reunited with former member Kraig Johnson. He was also in the singer-songwriter consortium Golden Smog with Louris and Jayhawks bassist Marc Perlman.

I realized I needed the Jayhawks and had a whole new appreciation for them. I always knew the Jayhawks were good, but I didn’t realize how great the band was until we started working on this record.