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Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology

The Jayhawks

Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology

Compliation of Minneapolis based alt country heavyweights supervised by founding member Gary Louris

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7.7

Label
American
UK Release date
06/07/2009
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  1. 10.0 |   The Guardian

    A strong case for the Minneapolis group being one of the great undervalued bands of the 90s.
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  2. 9.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Rareties, out-takes and track after glorious track of mega-hits-that-never-were collection... This appalling state of affairs can be rectified. The Jayhawks' future is in your hands
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  3. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    One headline about the Jayhawks at their prime read ""What if you made a classic, and no one cared?"" The Midwest country rockers have made a few in their 23 years, to less notice than they deserved
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

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  5. 8.0 |   Q

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  6. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Fans of Neil Young and Fleet Foxes alike will scarcely believe that music so lovely went by unapplauded
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  7. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    Presenting so many what-if scenarios, this disc tracks a very different career arc in which the Jayhawks never get as famous as they might have expected but never seem to care
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  8. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    The Jayhawks have always felt like grown-up music, often doled out with much energy and flair, but grown-up music nonetheless… aptly demonstrates that the band’s past, their legacy, exists in fine, well-loved and well-documented form
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  9. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    A bunch of enduring, wonderfully harmonised (by Mark Olson and Gary Louris) country-rock classics up front, including the beautifully parched Waiting for the Sun, eventually blur into indistinct soft rock
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