XOXO (The Jayhawks album)

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XOXO
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Studio album by
The Jayhawks
ReleasedJuly 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
StudioPachyderm Recording Studio, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
Genre Rock
Length46:26
Label Sham/Thirty Tigers
Producer The Jayhawks
The Jayhawks chronology
Back Roads and Abandoned Motels
(2018)		XOXO
(2020)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Classic Rock Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 [6]
PopMatters 8/10 [7]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

XOXO is the eleventh studio album by the alt country band the Jayhawks, released on July 10, 2020. [9] The album is dedicated to Ed Ackerson.

Contents

Background

The Jayhawks recorded XOXO in 2020 with the group line-up of Gary Louris, Marc Perlman, Karen Grotberg, and Tim O'Reagan after John Jackson left as a full time member. John Jackson is credited as on the album as is another former member, Stephen McCarthy. Longtime alt-country mainstay and frequent Jayhawks contributor Eric Heywood adds pedal steel to two tracks and engineer Kris Johnson plays guitar on one. This is the first Jayhawks album with sole writing credits for each member as well as the first to feature each as a lead vocalist. [10]

Track listing

  1. "This Forgotten Town" (Gary Louris, Tim O'Reagan, Marc Perlman) – 3:48
  2. "Dogtown Days" (O'Reagan) – 3:17
  3. "Living in a Bubble" (Louris) – 3:05
  4. "Ruby" (Karen Grotberg) – 3:39
  5. "Homecoming" (Louris) – 4:06
  6. "Society Pages" (O'Reagan) – 4:38
  7. "Illuminate" (Louris, O'Reagan, Perlman) – 4:35
  8. "Bitter Pill" (Grotberg, Louris, O'Reagan) – 3:25
  9. "Across My Field" (Grotberg) – 4:55
  10. "Little Victories" (Louris, O'Reagan) – 3:47
  11. "Down to the Farm" (Perlman) – 3:28
  12. "Looking Up Your Number" (O'Reagan) – 3:43

Bonus tracks (only available on the first pressings of the CD and LP releases)

  1. "Jewel of the Trimbelle" (Grotberg) – 3:41
  2. "Then You Walked Away" (Louris) – 3:14
  3. "Hypocrite's Lament" (Perlman, Louris) – 3:28

Personnel

The Jayhawks

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] 149
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] 58
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [13] 52
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [14] 13

References

  1. ↑ "Critic Reviews for XOXO". Metacritic . Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  2. ↑ Deming, Mark. "The Jayhawks – XOXO". AllMusic .
  3. ↑ Zimmerman, Lee (August 16, 2020). "The Jayhawks Keep Americana Cred High on XOXO Album". American Songwriter . Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  4. ↑ Sharp, Johnny (July 10, 2020). "The Jayhawks' XOXO – a triumph for democracy". Classic Rock . Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  5. ↑ "The Jayhawks' – XOXO". Mojo . August 2020. p. 93.
  6. ↑ Nelson, Elizabeth (July 20, 2020). "The Jayhawks: XOXO Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  7. ↑ Horowitz, Steve (July 9, 2020). "The Jayhawks Offer Us Some XOXO". PopMatters . Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  8. ↑ Mueller, Andrew (August 2020). "The Jayhawks' – XOXO". Uncut . p. 24. Archived from the original on July 23, 2020.
  9. ↑ "New Jayhawks album XOXO now out". September 2020.
  10. ↑ "New Jayhawks album XOXO now out". September 2020.
  11. ↑ "Ultratop.be – The Jayhawks – Xoxo" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  12. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Jayhawks – Xoxo" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  13. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – The Jayhawks – Xoxo". Hung Medien.
  14. ↑ "The Jayhawks Chart History (Top Americana/Folk Albums)". Billboard.
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