While reissues of their best-loved albums are on hold at least until autumn, Minneapolis' alt-country heroes, the Jayhawks, are going ahead with plans to play more reunion shows this summer, starting with three hometown concerts June 19-21 at First Avenue. Ticket info will be announced soon.
"We've had a lot of fun playing together and always planned on doing more," coleader Gary Louris said Monday. "The economy has sort of messed with everybody's tour plans. It's gotten too hard to take it on the road. But we'll at least do these First Ave shows, and hopefully some in Chicago and New York, too."
Louris said the concerts will feature the same mid-'90s Jayhawks lineup that played last summer's Basilica Block Party, with coleader Mark Olson -- who originally quit the band in 1995 -- along with cofounding bassist Marc Perlman, drummer Tim O'Reagan and keyboardist Karen Grotberg. They also hit some festivals in Spain, but otherwise have not performed elsewhere.
Their Basilica set list pulled heavily from the critically lauded albums "Hollywood Town Hall" and "Tomorrow the Green Grass," which were supposed to be recast this summer by Sony/Legacy as expanded editions, a plan now delayed. At least one Jayhawks' reissue is headed to stores, though: Lost Highway Records will dust off the band's self-titled debut on May 18. Known to fans as "The Bunkhouse Album," it was issued only on vinyl in 1986 and has long been out of print.
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