MARK OLSON & GARY LOURIS Ready For The Flood (2008 UK 13-track CD album - Although they've toured together and renewed their friendship, this is the first recording by Olson and Louris since Olson left the Jayhawks in 1995. Produced by Chris Robinson [The Black Crowes], 'Ready For The Flood' captures the stripped down, finger picked guitar playing and Laurel Canyon sound of an earlier time, with allusions to English folk [Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, John Renbourne], whom both Mark and Gary had both been getting into independently – and a simpler, live recording technique where capturing the right vibe was as important as the sound. It's an album that only two career musicians and friends could make – organic, intuitive and loosely confident, heartfelt and moving, echoing with the combined experience of two kindred spirits reuniting to do what they do – and love – best.)