The Jayhawks break through in 1989 with a re-release of the album Blue Earth, an album that four years earlier silently (and untitled) appeared. In the early years, the band consists of four Marc Perlman, Thad Spencer, Mark Olson and Gary Louris. After a number of changes in the composition, only the two active latter is still in the current band which now operates as a quintet. The typical countryrock
… which the belt makes the first fifteen years it exchanges with the album Smile around the turn of the century for a typical pop sound. It proves unsuccessful, then the men from Minneapolis to fall back on the old country rock concept albums Rainy Day Music (2003) and Mockingbird Time (2011).more