"I was pretty much born disappointed," Gary Louris says on the horn from northern California, outside of San Francisco, stumbling through the dark. This comes while discussing the Jayhawks' new record, Rainy Day Music, something of a partial revisit for the band to its pre-Uncle Tupelo, proto-alt-country roots of the mid-to-late '80s, before such terms were thrown around.
Back then, you'd just say "they've got kind of a country thing going," then go hang out at the arcade. Oh, the band plays New City tonight, incidentally.
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