Mark Olson at CSPS

MARK OLSON
Cedar Rapids debut | Mark Olson was a founding member of The Jayhawks, the most acclaimed band to emerge out of the alt-country scene. He left the Jayhawks in 1996, after the release of the band’s biggest-selling album, Tomorrow The Green Grass, but continued to record music with his new band, The Creekdippers, working out of his new home in the California desert.
The past two years, Mark Olson has been doing one thing — traveling the world. And, incidentally, coming to grips with some of the most painful moments of his life, including a divorce that resulted in the loss of the home he'd built in California. Such life-altering events inspired him to dig somehow deeper, writing the kind of album that makes adjectives like introspective seem tired and utterly useless.
The result of those efforts was Mark Olson's first true solo album, The Salvation Blues, produced by Ben Vaughn. A deeply personal project, the CD finds Mark’s poetic lyrics and inimitable, salt-of-the-earth warble complemented by Vaughn’s gorgeous musical backdrops, as well as the work of some of LA’s best studio musicians. The album also features a long-awaited reunion with Olson's former Jayhawks bandmate and writing partner, Gary Louris, on three of the songs.
Wed Feb 13 | 8 pm
CSPS | 1103 Third St SE | Cedar Rapids
$13 advance | $16 day of show

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