Tomorrow the Green Grass
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| Studio album by The Jayhawks | ||||
| Released | February 14, 1995 | |||
| Genre | Alternative country, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 46:27 | |||
| Label | American | |||
| Producer | George Drakoulias | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.1/10 |
| Q |  |
| Rolling Stone | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Spin | 7/10 |
Tomorrow the Green Grass is the fourth studio album by American rock band The Jayhawks, released on February 14, 1995. It peaked at number 92 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Tomorrow the Green Grass was the band's first album to feature keyboardist Karen Grotberg as a group member, as well as their last release with singer-songwriter Mark Olson.
"Miss Williams' Guitar" was written as a tribute to Victoria Williams, Olson's wife. He would later leave The Jayhawks and form The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers with Williams. The song "Bad Time" is a cover of a Grand Funk Railroad song from All the Girls in the World Beware!!!.
Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly praised the album as being "everything a country-rock album should be" and state that "even those who normally can't stand the genre are likely to be seduced by the plaintive vocal harmonies, pristine melodies, and scrappy-but-lyrical guitar solos".Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune wrote that the album's "wider-ranging arrangements and instrumentation (strings, violin, keyboards) make the band seem less one-dimensional and studied than before." The NME stated that Mark Olson and Gary Louris' vocal harmonies "attain that upliftingly sad tinge of gospel that was once the heavenly terrain of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris", while Q wrote that Olson and Louris "lead their slightly expanded six-piece band through a string of beautifully bracing folk-tinged pop songs stunning in their simplicity".Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a one-star honorable mention rating, indicating "a worthy effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well like", and called the album "always sincere, never wimpy".
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