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“Tailspin” by The Jayhawks
From the album Rainy Day Music (2003)
“Tailspin” by The Jayhawks appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2009 and 2023. It was first released in 2003 on the album Rainy Day Music. Its best result is #588 on the WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,793 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Tailspin" comes from Rainy Day Music, the Jayhawks' seventh album, made in 2003 when the band's core was Gary Louris with long-timers Marc Perlman and Tim O'Reagan. Louris wrote it, and the credits are generous: Louris on acoustic and electric guitar and harmonica, O'Reagan on drums, congas, percussion and acoustic guitar, Perlman on bass, new guitarist Stephen McCarthy on pedal steel and guest Bernie Leadon on banjo. The voices stack Louris and O'Reagan with Chris Stills and Matthew Sweet, and Ethan Johns produced, engineered and chipped in acoustic guitar.
The album drew warm notices, with reviewers hearing delicate harmonies and jangling acoustic melodies that put them in mind of Californians like Poco and the post-Gram Parsons Burrito Brothers.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 588 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2013 | 600 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2023 | 1112 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
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