The Jayhawks
Rainy Day Music
Released in 2003, Rainy Day Music announced that close harmony singing -- the 60's sound of The Beach Boys, The Mamas and the Papas, Poco and yes, The Burritos -- was a sound for the new millennium. Breaking out in the first 80's flowering of alt country, The Jayhawks were nearly twenty years in when they released this twangy masterpiece. There are fuzzy guitars and pedal steel anchoring melodic songs about breakups and redemption. There's rock royalty on hand if you care about that sort of thing: producer Rick Rubin, Mathew Sweet ("Girlfriend," sigh) and Bernie Leadon (Buritos, Eagles). But somewhere, Gram Parsons was smiling when he heard this:
Rainy Day Music
Released in 2003, Rainy Day Music announced that close harmony singing -- the 60's sound of The Beach Boys, The Mamas and the Papas, Poco and yes, The Burritos -- was a sound for the new millennium. Breaking out in the first 80's flowering of alt country, The Jayhawks were nearly twenty years in when they released this twangy masterpiece. There are fuzzy guitars and pedal steel anchoring melodic songs about breakups and redemption. There's rock royalty on hand if you care about that sort of thing: producer Rick Rubin, Mathew Sweet ("Girlfriend," sigh) and Bernie Leadon (Buritos, Eagles). But somewhere, Gram Parsons was smiling when he heard this:
