The Jayhawks’ latest album, ‘Sanctuary Park,’ released August 28, just as the band are about to celebrate their 40th anniversary together.

Hear our in-studio session with our September Artist of the Month The Jayhawks. The pioneering americana group from Minnesota performed songs from their 12th studio album Sanctuary Park. Diane chatted ...

With four decades in their rearview mirror, the Jayhawks are looking back to look forward. The Minnesota-born band has announced plans to release its 12th studio album on Aug. 28. It'll be followed by ...

LIKE MUCH of Washington last week, the Jayhawks went without electricity last year. The result is "Rainy Day Music," a return to the rootsy Americana sound the Jayhawks and Uncle Tupelo championed in ...

"Oh, is that a hawk?" Singer-songwriter Gary Louris of the Jayhawks is sitting on a patio in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec when he's abruptly distracted during a video call. He watches a ...

Any musical outfit that’s been around 40 years will have had its ups and downs, pauses and restarts, shake-ups and breakups. Yet there had to have been underpinnings to keep the group producing and ...

About a decade ago, I formulated a new genre based on a particular guitar sound that would for several years be heard on ...

Gary Louris currently lives in the mountains of Quebec, Canada just outside of Montreal with his wife, Stephanie. But for most of his adult life the Jayhawks singer/guitarist has called Minneapolis, ...

Emerging from “The City of Lakes” in 1985, the Jayhawks showed that Minneapolis could produce a band at the forefront of another genre besides pioneering alt-rock (The Replacements, Hüsker Dü) and ...

When the insurgent country movement blew up in the mid-’90s, The Jayhawks were a cornerstone band alongside the likes of Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown and The Bottle Rockets. Next year represents the ...