Austin City Limits will air a The Jayhwaks episode ( also featuring Gillian Welch) nationally January 3, 2004  on PBS (please check local listings). This episode is part of Austin City Limits' 29th season which began airing
Oct. 11. Austin City Limits' Web site features a transcript of a post-show interview with the artist and will soon feature a video clip preview of the show and much more. New contents are added to the site daily.

If you go to www.losthighwayrecords.com and click on the box there that says "Coming 9/23" it brings up a fuzzy scan of the track listing for a compilation they are putting out called "Lost and Found Vol. 1". One of the tracks is The Jayhawks "Falling Star" and is described there as being "from the forthcoming rerelease The Jayhawks (Bunkhouse LP)"!

The Jayhawks has recently finished a more than a month long tour with The Thorns. Right before the last tour started (June 21st) they filmed the first video from the new album, of course "Save It For A Rainy Day" starring Mary-Louise Parker. Their gig at Austin City Limits festival will be aired this fall, and Jayhawks will appear at @ Late Night with Conan O'Brien on 8/5.

It's some rumours about an European "Save it for a rainy day" CD-single with live versions of the same song and "Tailspin" from the Woman's Club bootleg, and an previously unreleased demo named "Save Me From Myself".  Can someone fill me in on this 'cause I haven't seen it...

Rainy Day Music debuted on #51 on Billboard, which indicates about 19000 units sold the first week. The official site is now up and running.You can listen to 7 live songs and an interview on NPR.

Restless Records/Ryko rereleased "Blue Earth" April 22nd with three previously unreleased tracks. These are "Fingernail Moon", "Two Minute Pop Song" and "Nightshade".

According to a Norwegian (!) newspaper the self-titled album will be released on CD for the first time. This will be the beginning of a box-set. If anyone has any more information on this, please use the mail button at the bottom of this page.

Some interesting interviews are starting to pop up on the internet. One is from Star Tribune, and another from St. Paul Pioneer Press. Please use the e-mail link at the bottom of the page if you discover some interviews that everyone should know about. The Jayhawks seems to get good reviews for their return to the '69. Q gave Rainy Days Songs 4 out of 5. A kind of super group named The Thorns (consisting of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins) does a cover of Blue on their forthcoming album. It will be released in May.
 
The track list for "Rainy Say Music" is now chosen with "Save it for a Rainy Day" as the first single. There will also be released a limited edition bonus CD with 5 tracks, as well as a vinyl release with the same stuff. The release date for the CD is set to April 8th, and the LP April 22nd. Guests are a whole lot musicians including producer Ethan Johns, Stephen McCarthy, Chris Stills, Richard Causon, Matthew Sweet, Jakob Dylan, and Bearnie Leadon.

Marc Perlman is still one of the members in Kraig Johnson's backing band "The Program". The other ones are Ed Ackerson (guitars, keyboard), Jim Boquist (guitars) and Pete Anderson (drums)