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- Mark John Olson (born September 18, 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of alternative country bands The Jayhawks and the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers.
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Mark John Olson[1] (born September 18, 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of alternative country bands The Jayhawks and the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers.
Mark Olson was born and raised in Minnesota by a family of mostly farmers and schoolteachers. Predominately a self-taught musician, Olson is well known for his use of alternate tunings and two-part unison singing that then breaks into harmony. He founded the Jayhawks in 1985 in Minneapolis.
Oct 14, 2017 · Mark Olson may never be as famous again as he was when he was fronting The Jayhawks, but in his current capacity as itinerant troubadour he seems happier than he’s ever been. At Wellington airport, the Minneapolis-born musician stood out.
The Jayhawks was formed in 1984 by Minneapolis musicians Mark Olson (guitar and vocals) and Caleb Palmiter (bass), [1] with the duo adding Tommy Rey (drums) for its first shows. In 1985 the short-lived trio was relaunched as a four-piece band after Olson recruited Steve Retzler (guitar), Marc Perlman (bass), and Norm Rogers (drums).
Recorded on the road in his travels across continents, Mark Olson has tapped into a unique and poetic vibe with his latest album ‘Good-bye Lizelle’. Olson is best known as founder, singer and songwriter for the seminal, influential alternative country rock band the Jayhawks, which was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the mid 1980s.
Jan 18, 2011 · Shortly after the tour behind the Jayhawks’ 1995 album Tomorrow the Green Grass, co-leader Mark Olson quit the band. He had had enough. Enough of the touring, the studio hassles, the...
Aug 21, 2017 · Mark Olson is a pathfinder, one of the true leaders of a movement, a genuine seminal artist, a musician and performer who changed music, who helped it cut a new path. The founder of The Jayhawks, one of the pioneering bands that took punk rock and smashed it into country music, creating Alt-Country or what…
