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“This Forgotten Town” by The Jayhawks
From the album XOXO (2020)
“This Forgotten Town” by The Jayhawks appears on 7 radio countdowns from 7 stations in 2020. It was first released in 2020 on the album XOXO. Its best result is #18 on the WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #43 indie & aaa song of 2020 and #314 of the '20s.
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"This Forgotten Town" comes from XOXO, the eleventh Jayhawks album, released in July 2020 and made by the slimmed-down lineup of Gary Louris, Marc Perlman, Karen Grotberg and Tim O'Reagan after John Jackson stepped back as a full-time member. It's a record built on sharing the load, the first on which every member takes a lead vocal, and this one is a group effort through and through: Louris, O'Reagan and Perlman wrote it, and all four sing on it.
The instruments pass around the room the same way. Louris plays guitar and Mellotron, O'Reagan drums, percussion, guitar and even sitar, Perlman bass, guitar and harmonica, Grotberg keyboards, and former member Stephen McCarthy lays pedal steel over the top. The band produced it themselves and Paul Q. Kolderie mixed, and it has the warm, lived-in shimmer of old friends singing together.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 41 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2020 | 90 |
| 2020 | 72 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2020 | 90 |
| 2020 | 55 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2020 | 199 |
| 2020 | 65 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2020 | 88 |
| 2020 | 71 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2020 | 97 |
| 2020 | 18 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2020 | 100 |
| 2020 | 49 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2020 | 89 |
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