Ready For The Flood [Digipak]

Performer: Mark Olson/Gary Louris
Engineer: Beau Raymond
Producer: Chris Robinson
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Mark Olson (vocals, acoustic guitar); Gary Louris (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Ben Peeler (dobro, banjo); Jason Yates (Hammond b-3 organ); George Reiff (bass guitar); Jimi Hey (drums); Chris Robinson (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Beau Raymond. On the first album they've released together since they were partners in The Jayhawks in 1995, singer/songwriters Mark Olson and Gary Louris reconvene for a recording that's unlikely to disappoint fans of their old band. But while they mine a thoughtful country-folk vein that's not far removed from Jayhawks territory, Olson and Louris take a somewhat softer, more acoustic-based, balladic approach here than they did in the Jayhawks days, lending READY FOR THE FLOOD a warm, honeyed glow.

Rolling Stone (p.68) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[O]n tracks like 'The Rose Society,' Olson and Louris sound as though they were born to sing together." Spin (p.92) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Olson & Louris evince real sorrow and regret with little more than a carefully picked acoustic guitar and ghostly organ tracing the tracks of their tears." Entertainment Weekly (p.99) - "[W]hen these two twine their pretty voices around girl-in-trouble songs like 'Turn Your Pretty Name ARound' or 'The Rose Society,' they can still make a stone weep." -- Grade: B+ Dirty Linen (p.61) - "Olsen's cracked-timbered voice and Louris' dry, steady tone create harmonies of unlikely perfection, and seem emblematic of the collaboration as a whole." Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he return of the sweetest harmonies that any thinking country fan could hope to hear is certainly something worth singing about."

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