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	Gary Louris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gary Louris is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music.
		He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson; he is often credited with the band's subsequent move from folk-country toward a more progressive, poppier sound.
		Louris is also a member of the intermittent Midwest musical collective/side-project Golden Smog; other members have included fellow Jayhawk Marc Perlman, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy from Soul Asylum, Kraig Johnson of Run Westy Run and Chris Mars of The Replacements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Louris (223 words)

	Jayhawks at Metro: minimal but memorable
		As evidenced by the Jayhawks' latest disc and their concert Monday night at Metro, Gary Louris is comfortable being the captain of this Minneapolis-based band.
		Louris and original bassist Marc Perlman have remained the constants as more than a dozen players have passed through the Jayhawks' ranks.
		As Louris stood alone, mesmerizing the crowd, it was clear that he could have pursued a successful solo career long ago, but he remains committed to the band concept.
	www.suntimes.com /output/music/cst-ftr-jay16.html (492 words)

	The GIBSON & Baldwin Player - The Jayhawks: Godfathers of Alt-Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Louris and Perlman are the two original members remaining, with drummer Tim O'Reagan - a six-year veteran - and new guitarist Steve McCarthy rounding out the current lineup.
		Louris is not a guitar collector by his own admission, but his stash includes a Flying V, an Epiphone Casino and a 1963 J-200, as well as an LG-1 from the '60s that he's used on all the Jayhawks' recordings.
		Louris got the SG from an old friend, Chris Osgood, who used to be in the Suicide Commandos, the seminal late '70s punk rock band from Minneapolis who were the impetus for bands like the Replacements and Husker Du.
	player.gibson.com /aug03/Jayhawks.html (1028 words)

	washingtonpost.com: POP MUSIC
		It wasn't billed as a Jayhawks show, but the pairing of Mark Olson and Gary Louris at the Birchmere on Monday night was a much-anticipated affair for fans of that important alt-country band, which Olson and Louris formed together 20 years ago in Minneapolis.
		After a sluggish start Monday, Louris and Olson settled into a comfortable groove, their wistful harmonies during the two-hour concert showing little sign of rust from the long layoff.
		Louris, too, seemed more engaged playing his newer songs, including "Angelyne" and "Tailspin," both on the latest Jayhawks CD, "Rainy Day Music." That they are energized by the newer material is probably to be expected -- and a good sign if they ever do collaborate on another album.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A18652-2005Mar8?language=printer (494 words)

	Jayhawks (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The band formed in 1985 in Minnesota with Mark Olson (acoustic guitar and vocals), Gary Louris (electric guitar and vocals), Marc Perlman (bass) and Thad Spencer (drums).
		Though Louris' fuzzy guitar was at the forefront, a clear folksy influence was also emerging in Olson's songwriting.
		Olson and Louris toured together in the spring of 2005, billed as "From the Jayhawks: An Evening with Mark Olson and Gary Louris, Together Again." Both old and new Jayhawks members have now progressed to solo efforts, and the band as a whole is generally considered to be broken up.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Jayhawks (739 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But guitarist, songwriter, and leader Gary Louris is used to the by-now semiannual incidence of forced tactical withdrawals.
		Louris' damn-the-torpedoes attitude notwithstanding, badly timed personnel changes have arguably led to some of the group's biggest career snags.
		And performing as a trio made Louris realize that the Jayhawks could work without keyboards, which had been a part of the band since 1992, and a second guitar, which it had never been without.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/printready.asp?id=8270 (837 words)

	VH1.com : Gary Louris : Biography
		Louris happened to be in the audience and, after hitting it off with his future songwriting partner Olsen, joined the band.
		With Louris at the helm, the Jayhawks released 1997's Sound of Lies and 2000's Smile.
		Louris has also been a consistent member of the all-star roots rock collective Golden Smog, which released its debut EP in 1992.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/louris_gary/bio.jhtml (366 words)

	Jayhawks call it quits after 2 decades
		Singer Gary Louris has confirmed that the alternative-country pioneers - formed in Minneapolis two decades ago - are no longer an active band.
		A sold-out concert in Madison, Wis., on Saturday reunited Louris with singer Mark Olson, who quit the Jayhawks in 1995.
		Louris recently co-wrote new tunes with the Dixie Chicks and appears eager to try other career directions, such as record production.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/music/articles/0223jayhawks.html (155 words)

	Music & Nightlife in Santa Cruz, CA \| Music Interview/Preview \| Marc Olson and Gary Louris
		Though Louris continued to release albums under the Jayhawks name, longtime fans and new recruits longed for the signature interplay of Olson and Louris' songwriting and harmonies.
		When Olson and Louris announced a short 2005 tour, fans were shocked, and speculation quickly turned to whether the two would reform the Jayhawks and release a new album.
		Despite their enthusiasm for what is carefully being billed as the "Mark Olson and Gary Louris Together Again Tour," and the growing awareness of the impact the Jayhawks have had on modern alt-folk music, Olson stops just short of making any long-term promises to the Jayhawks faithful.
	www.metroactive.com /metro-santa-cruz/05.03.06/olson-and-louris-0618.html (822 words)

	Amazon.com: Sound of Lies: Music: The Jayhawks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Louris wears his heart on his sleeve in the raw-nerve musings of "Dying on the Vine," and "The Man Who Loved Life" is a perfect Jayhawks moment: a quiet, lone piano opens the song, which builds slowly with layers of vocals, guitar, and piano, resulting in a majestic coda.
		Gary Louris had to steer the ship, after initially suggesting Olson's departure was the end of this band.
		Gary Louris, with this one, unlocked the chest that he'd been stashing full of his true nature while toiling (and keeping afloat) the Olson-led version of his band.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009QOK?v=glance (1751 words)

	Mark Olson & Gary Louris Regroup For Tour
		Mark Olson and Gary Louris Regroup For Tour
		Louris notes that the tour is not a Jayhawks reunion.
		Louris, who splits his time between homes in Spain and Minneapolis, is busy performing with two other side projects, the Yams and Thank You And Goodnight.
	www.glidemagazine.com /news3012.html (426 words)

	City Pages - No. 1 Record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Louris, stung by the loss of his artistic alter ego and the concurrent breakup of his marriage, turned his lyrics inward.
		Louris knew the choice wouldn't fit his fans' expectations, but that only encouraged the move in his mind--he has always actively resisted the popular conception of the band as an alt-country outfit.
		Louris says the producer suggested the use of drum loops on "Somewhere in Ohio" in hopes of creating a "modern folk" sound--not that this, even if successful, would be a new idea in the age of Beth Orton and Beck.
	www.citypages.com /databank/21/1022/article8799.asp (2746 words)

	thedailytimes.com - Jayhawks take the simple approach in latest release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Louris hasn't been covered much, although a version of the Jayhawks' ``Blue'' appears this spring on a new album by the Thorns, a soft rock band.
		Louris said he's been told his lyrics were too arty for the mainstream.
		Louris pronounces himself fully recovered from a heart infection, which felled him this winter and forced the cancellation of a concert tour.
	www.thedailytimes.com /sited/story/html/131488 (876 words)

	The Jayhawks ---Ink Blot Magazine
		I congratulated Louris on their smashing new record, Smile, and asked him how it felt to be back.
		Louris, who seems to be as wise, classy, humorous and laid-back as people come, is a former architect into golf and crossword puzzles.
		Gary -"The Magus" by John Fowles, "The Heart of the Matter" by Graham Greene, "Exile and the Kingdom" by Camus.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /Interviews/int_Jayhawks.htm (1510 words)

	The Jayhawks / Verbow - Metro - Chicago, Illinois - February 1998 (Concert Review)
		Singer Gary Louris tried in vain to establish a rapport by talking more than he usually does, but he eventually, he resigned himself to stating, I feel like we're in Europe, when the audience stood there staring blankly as he talked and sang.
		Louris' guitar solo sliced through the beat, shredding the song into colorful bursts of reverberating sound.
		Louris added that it was his favorite song on Sound of Lies.
	www.musicbox-online.com /jay2-98.html (683 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Music : Acoustic Rekindling
		Gary Louris may have closed the door on his band, The Jayhawks, last year, but he hasn't left behind many of the songs created by that pioneering alt-country band from Minneapolis during its 20 years of existence.
		Louris said that even though he and Olson played together last year, they haven't seen each other in probably in six months, so last weekend, he had no idea what they would be playing on the current tour.
		Louris cited constant touring as one of the primary reasons his most famous band broke up.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid:81591 (965 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		"The grapes are bitter / I'm no quitter," the Jayhawks' Gary Louris sings defiantly on "Big Star," a rocking track from the band's new album, "Sound of Lies." To the listener familiar with the band's recent history, the line seems to be a pointed reference to departed co-founder Mark Olson.
		Gary and I and (keyboardist) Karen (Grotberg) and (drummer) Tim (O'Reagan) were more of a like mind to go a certain way musically, and Mark was of a mind to go a different way."
		The album's lyrics detail the complicated process of breaking up with an intimate partner, hardly surprising given that the songs were written when Louris was struggling with both the loss of Olson - his close friend and artistic collaborator - and the painful dissolution of his marriage.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1997/oct/10-03-97/arts/arts1.html (900 words)

	No Depression: Back Issues
		Louris had the Jayhawks as the primary outlet for his songs, but like Tweedy and Farrar, at times he too struggled to fit his songs with those of the Jayhawks’ other songwriter, Mark Olson.
		Louris had "Won’t Be Coming Home", a song the Jayhawks had played live, but whose "time had passed," he says.
		Louris’ contributions to Weird Tales, especially "Jane" and "Jennifer Save Me", are the kind of aching and heartfelt stuff that might hint at his own recent trials and tribulations – but on the other hand, he’s always had a penchant for such melancholy material.
	www.nodepression.net /issues/nd18/goldensmog.html (3771 words)

	Gary Louris MP3 Downloads - Gary Louris Music Downloads - Gary Louris Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Long before rising to prominence as leader of the insurgent country group the Jayhawks (and the all-star collective Golden Smog), Gary Louris grew up in Toledo, OH, where he took piano lessons as a youngster.
		When he was 14, his mother gave him a classical guitar, suggesting he could bring the instrument to parties and become more popular.
		In 1988, Louris was injured in a nearly fatal automobile accident and the band went on hiatus.
	www.mp3.com /gary-louris/artists/80575/biography.html (378 words)

	Hog's Breath 7th Annual Songwriters Festival
		Jessi is honing her skills collaborating and working in the studio with the likes of personal mentor Gary Nicholson, Heartbreaker’s pianist Benmont Tench, Canadian blues-guitarist Colin Linden, Gary Louris of the J-Hawks, and producer Ray Kennedy.
		Gary is from Dallas, Texas, where he began playing guitar at age 12 after hearing his sister’s records by Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, and Elvis.
		Gary co-wrote with Vince Gill, was a number one record by Gill in 1994 and was also one of the 50 most performed ASCAP songs of the year.
	www.hogsbreath.com /songwriterfest_2002.htm (1126 words)

	Pop with a smile (Seattle Weekly)
		Gary Louris and the Jayhawks persevere, with a hot new album behind them.
		Louris, whose voice reverberated off the tiles of the bath in his Minneapolis home as he tried to remove a broken showerhead ("I'm not very handy," he conceded), had plenty to say on the subject of the Jayhawks' new pop album, Smile (Columbia), though.
		Louris even credits the producer with scaling back the concept-album approach he had in mind for Smile, which led to the album's wealth of solid songs.
	www.seattleweekly.com /music/0023/music-martin.php (739 words)

	The Jayhawks biography
		It was a devastating experience for the band and a personal low point for Louris, who had also recently been in a car accident.
		The tapes were polished up, a few songs quickly added, and they even got Gary Louris down to dub a few of his old parts.
		The reasons were maybe a bit deeper than that, and Louris or Perlman could have made the breakup instead.
	home.no /thejayhawks/bio.html (2425 words)

	The Jayhawks - The Band
		The original lineup was Gary Louris, Mark Olson, Marc Perlman and Thad Spencer.
		There were many rumors about them breaking up, changing the name of the band, etc. But in the end, Gary Louris emerged as the new leader of the Jayhawks.
		With Gary as the principle songwriter and lead singer, the band has created a whole new Jayhawks sound, and I am tempted to say it is their best album to date.
	members.tripod.com /tunage/jayhawks/theband.htm (386 words)

	Jayhawks - Lost Highway
		Louris figures the change is all part of the artistic process.
		It's also the Jayhawks' first release since they moved to Lost Highway, which has proved to be a providential union of artist and place.
		Before going into the studio, Louris, bassist Marc Perlman and drummer Tim O'Reagan embarked on an acoustic-mini tour.
	main.losthighwayrecords.com /artist.aspx?aid=187 (909 words)

	Metroland Online - Live
		It was the plaintive, earthy harmonies of the Jayhawks’ chief figures, Mark Olson and Gary Louris, and their laid-back, Byrdsy folk-rock that eventually defined the group’s sound.
		The chemistry was undeniable as their voices came together on the line “I found tomorrow was a friend of mine” early in the first set, while a reverent, sold-out audience basked warmly in the glow of what once was and what was thought could never again be.
		Olson’s bass guitar was just loud enough onstage that it leapt forth during his forays up the neck, as at the end of “I’d Run Away,” while Russell proved himself an enormous asset, flavoring each song with plucked violin or choppy piano blocking (or soft-stroke bass whenever Olson moved to the keys).
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol28_no09/live.html (896 words)

	PBS - Austin City Limits
		We, Gary and Marc and I met around 1984 and we were probably the only three musicians in Minneapolis who weren’t in a band.
		a: (Gary Louris) Well I think we started out as being, having kind of a country-folk-Americana-edge, but we were all coming from kind of a rock background.
		I remember talking to Gary and he seemed not super excited to be on that tour, but they sounded great.
	www.pbs.org /klru/austin/interviews/jawhawks_interview.html (1620 words)

	Olson & Louris perform in harmony
		Guitarist-vocalist Gary Louris joined the fold a short time later, and it was the undeniably powerful combination of his voice and Olson's that won the band a dedicated national following.
		Olson married the lovably eccentric singer-songwriter Victoria Williams and returned to his indie roots for subsequent solo recordings, while the Jayhawks carried on, led by Louris and Perlman, through a series of lineup changes, a number of other albums (some straying far from the alt-country sound) and their own eventual return to the indies.
		For his part, Olson told the Ann Arbor News that his reunion with Louris stemmed from their collaboration on a song for "December's Child," the 2002 album by his band, the Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers.
	www.jimdero.com /News2005/OlsonLourisLiveMar11.htm (713 words)

	NIPP: Artists: The Jayhawks
		Led by the gifted songwriting, impeccable playing, and honeyed harmonies of vocalists/guitarists Mark Olson and Gary Louris, the Jayhawks’ shimmering blend of country, folk and bar-band rock made them one of the most widely acclaimed artists to emerge from the alternative country scene.
		One of those patrons, however, was Gary Louris, a veteran of the local bands Safety Last and Schnauzer; after the show, he and Olson began talking, and by the end of the evening Louris, a guitarist famed locally for his innovative, pedal steel-like sound, had become a member of the group, eventually named the Jayhawks.
		In October 1988, after a line-up change which saw the departure of Rogers (who joined the Cows) followed by the addition of drummer Thad Spencer, Louris was nearly killed in an auto accident, and the Jayhawks went on hiatus.
	www.nipp.com /artists/detail/the-jayhawks (566 words)

	Nude as the News: The Jayhawks: Smile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Hell, in one song on the album vocalist and chief songwriter Gary Louris appeared ready to turn in his guitar, give up on the band, and call it day.
		Louris, who admits to never even listening to country before he joined the Jayhawks, replaced the past with crunchy guitars, some drum loops, and a louder, rawer sound.
		Gary Louris has obviously been listening to his Beatles and Beach Boys records lately, as he dabbles in psychedelica in throughout the record.
	www.nudeasthenews.com /reviews/903 (700 words)

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