The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
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Artist: The JayhawksEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-09-04
Music Label: Warner Spec. Mkt. UK
Soundtracks:
- Waiting for the Sun
- Crowded in the Wings
- Clouds
- Two Angels
- Take Me With You (When You Go)
- Sister Cry
- Settled Down Like Rain
- Wichita
- Nevada, California
- Martin's Song
Music reviews of Hollywood Town Hall
Music Review: A down-to-earth great!!!! rock CD - a top fiver for me
Rating: 5 Stars
The Jayhawks are pioneers of the Alt Country thing (I hate this genre name, but the cat is out of the bag). Ever since first hearing this album over 15 years ago, I viewed it as a nearly perfect. The recording is spot-on for the material - unpretentious, jangly, fuzzed guitars, a real piano - a perfect backdrop to well-written, tightly structured rock songs, with harmonies from Gary Louris and Mark Olson - they were meant to sing together. The Jayhawks pull their songs back to their roots, with hints of old electric Neil Young are in here (ala Zuma). Back-to-basics rock songs - a stellar album that has stood the test of time. Own it! GENRES: Rock, Mellow Rock, Alt Country.
BUY IF YOU LIKE: James McMurtry, Whiskeytown.
MUST HEAR TRACKS: "Two Angels," "Waiting for the Sun," "Wichita," "Martin's Song."
Description of Hollywood Town Hall
Out of print in the U.S.! 1992 release, the third album overall, by the Americana-Pop/Roots-Rock outfit led by Mark Olson and Gary Louris. 10 tracks. Warner.The Jayhawks' breakthrough album is a roots rock classic. "Like folk music, but really loud," is how guitarist Gary Louris liked to describe the Jayhawks, but the reality is more complex--try the country-rock sound of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Neil Young, or the Band married to white-boy soul, bar band rawness, and a slight alternative edge. Hollywood Town Hall is a masterpiece of American songwriting, blending irresistible melodies, ringing guitars, and Louris and Olson's gorgeous harmonies with moody, imagery-rich lyrics. Best cuts: "Waiting for the Sun," "Take Me with You (When You Go)."
Because the Jayhawks' lyrics are more interested in expressing a mournful mood than in evoking any specific emotion, and since their strengths are searing guitar solos and cathartic, Gram Parsons-influenced harmonies, it makes sense their best album would come when they teamed with a producer (George Drakoulias) who could make all that sorrowful noise come to life. Hollywood Town Hall is such a sonic marvel, in fact, that even the new version of the beautiful, if vague, "Two Angels" (repeated from their earlier album Blue Earth) sounds less a retread than a revelation. Though still obscure, like everything here it sounds breathtaking. --David Cantwell
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