Biting Other Blogs: The Jayhawks Bunkhouse Album.

Biting Other Blogs is an occasionally occurring feature that will direct your attention to a specific blog post or two that, most likely, I wish I had posted myself. Giving credit where credit is due, I typically wont blab too much, except to encourage you to get up on whatever blog I am highlighting…

I have had a blast going back in time and listening to what would’ve been The Jayhawks debut album. The Bunkhouse Album is a rollicking good, country-rock time. Many people are writing that it’s odd this album is only coming out after the “genre” the band helped launch is all but dead. I don’t get that at all. The bands like Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown and Old 97′s didn’t purposely create a genre and call it “Alt-country” or “Cow Punk” or whatever, that was the writers and critics who felt uncomfortable letting the music be what it is, without a nice, tidy and neat little label that made it easier for them to turn in their assignments on time.

• Roughstock isn’t too worried about the death of alt-country…. 

• …neither is American Songwriter …

• Austin 360 thinks the album is solid, even if a bit late to arrive (duh).

Tags: Jayhawks