Brooklyn Vegan — by Kurt Christensen Mark Olson @ Rockwood Music Hall "With the stars-of-fame outside First Avenue currently being repainted, it looked as if the Jayhawks were campaigning to make theirs the first local name to go back up on the walls.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mark Olson is a founding member of The Jayhawks, the most acclaimed band to emerge out of the alt-country scene. He left the Jayhawks in 1996, after the release of the band's biggest-selling album, Tomorrow The Green Grass, but continued... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — MINNEAPOLIS - While critics give the Jayhawks credit for helping invent alt-country, co-founder Mark Olson is quick to downplay the band's contributions to the rustic blend of rock and country that blossomed in the 1980s and '90s. more info

Associated Press — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- While critics give the Jayhawks credit for helping invent alt-country, co-founder Mark Olson is quick to downplay the band's contributions to the rustic blend of rock and country that blossomed in the 1980s and '90s.... more info

Idolator — I already mentioned a few weeks ago how excited I am for the forthcoming Gary Louris/Mark Olson acoustic mini-Jayhawks reunion, but if you would like to one-up my ability to see two of the band members play together live, the entire mid-'90s lineup w... more info

Idolator — I've really tried to be a little more positive about music in 2009, which is a little bit challenging when your cruising the Internet for news results in you running across one ridiculously hyped act after another. Still, there are moments when I'm ... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Singer/songwriters Gary Louris and Mark Olson have tacked on a new leg of dates to support the pair's latest album together, "Ready For the Flood."... continued more info

Chicago Tribune — When Mark Olson and Gary Louris last played Chicago almost four years ago, the performance served as a long-awaited reunion of two of the finest harmony voices in music and a nostalgic reminder of the ageless songs they wrote as members of the Jayhaw... more info

JamBase — By: Dennis Cook Louris & Olson "The look on your face when you start to remember…" You'd be hard pressed to find two better songwriters than Mark Olson and Gary Louris. As the central force in The Jayhawks for a decade (1985-1995), the... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: News, AlbumSpinner.com: For Jayhawks fans, the new Gary Louris and Mark Olson collaboration, 'Ready for the Flood,' is a hopeful thing. It means the voices that made albums like 'Hollywood Town Hall' and 'Tomorrow the Green Grass' class... more info