Comeback kids: the Jayhawks ride again

Combining melancholia with sunshine choruses, alt-country pioneers return to their best. ‘Life is dark, but with a beautiful melody,’ says founder Gary Louris Perseverance is a virtue many bands run out of after they reach a modicum of success. Divorces, money squabbles, drug problems, boredom – these are the usual culprits cutting bands short before their time.So it is a great accomplishment that the Jayhawks, a band at the forefront of the alt-country movement of the 1990s, a