Gary Louris - "Almost Home" from the 2021 album Jump For Joy on Sham/Thirty Tigers.

It's been a while since Gary Louris has released a solo album, but The Jayhawks frontman returns on June 4th with the full-length Jump For Joy, his first since 2008's Vagabond. 

Today's Song of the Day was originally meant to be a jingle for an AT&T commercial. When they turned it down, a friend suggested Quaker. When they changed their mind on using it, he toldAmerican Songwriter he "wrote a chorus and a verse, and a bridge, and it became what it was supposed to be.”

He continues, saying that lyrically, the song is "a lot of looking back, reassessing with a microscope, then at a distance — so from outer space to nose-on-the-ground. Life sometimes carries you in new ways, but if you can stop and look around, you can learn to appreciate where you are, instead of where you’re going and where you’ve been.”

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Gary Louris - "Almost Home" from the 2021 album Jump For Joy on Sham/Thirty Tigers.
It's been a while since Gary Louris has released a solo album, but The Jayhawks frontman returns on June 4th with the full-length Jump For Joy, his first since 2008's Vagabond.&nbsp;
Today's Song of the Day was originally meant to be a jingle for an AT&amp;T commercial. When they turned it down, a friend suggested Quaker. When they changed their mind on using it, he told<a href="https://americansongwriter.com/the-jay-hawks-gary-louris-premieres-new-song-ahead-of-solo-lp-features/"> American Songwriter</a> he "wrote a chorus and a verse, and a bridge, and it became what it was supposed to be.&rdquo;
He continues, saying that lyrically, the song is "a lot of looking back, reassessing with a microscope, then at a distance &mdash; so from outer space to nose-on-the-ground. Life sometimes carries you in new ways, but if you can stop and look around, you can learn to appreciate where you are, instead of where you&rsquo;re going and where you&rsquo;ve been.&rdquo;
<a href="https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2021/5/27/gary-louris-almost-home/">Read the full post on KEXP.org</a>

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