Just the fun stuff today as most everything else wasn’t really a lot to talk about. So we’ll play the music, making the point once again that the world is full of artists in their bedrooms, kitchens and garages and they just needed YouTube to come along and help show them off.

This week’s featured artist being covered are Minnesota’s favorite sons, and one of my favorite bands, The Jayhawks. They have a large catalog and a small, devoted following. There aren’t a ton of covers on YouTube, but what you get is choice.

From Rainy Day Music:

I’d be willing to bet a lot of Jayhawks people find this to be an underappreciated song, this is Smile, from the album of the same name, as performed by Marco Ferri:

I might have put Russ in this space before, but here he’s playing The Yankee’s favorite Jayhawks song, Angelyne, in split screen, on a 2kulele.

That’s also from Rainy Day Music. We make up our own lyrics to that one. Usually it has to do with pancakes.

There doesn’t seem to be a proper cover of my favorite Jayhawks song, from the woefully under-appreciated Hollywood Town Hall, so I’ll just put the official video here:

It is startling. I’d say “They look so young!” And then I realize that video is almost 20 years old. Mark Olson, the guy with the straw hat, turns 50 this year. Gary Louris is sneaking up on 60. Two years agoOlson and Louris recorded an album. They’re due to release another record in what is considered their classic band lineup later this year.