Mark Olson - Decembers Child - Compact Disc
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the original plastic seal
Dualtone Records 2002
small cut in barcode

In 1995, Mark Olson left the Jayhawks after a stormy ten years of mounting success and ventured out on his own to continue pursuing his vision of honest, earthy Americana music. The Jayhawks pushed on without Olson, and, helmed by new chief songwriter Gary Louris, the band headed off into more pop-oriented territory. Rather than shop for a new label and do it all over again, Olson decided on a more independent route: to simply make the music he wanted to make and sell it himself. With the help of his wife, Victoria Williams (a successful singer/songwriter herself), and his longtime friend and fiddler Mike "Razz" Russel, he set up his own living room studio in rural Joshua Tree, CA, and recorded The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers in 1997. The album was warmly received by the alt-country elite and warranted considerable press in the y'allternative-centric magazine No Depression. The trio had so much fun with the first album they recorded Pacific Coast Rambler in early 1999 and Zola & the Tulip Tree later in the year. The partially autobiographical My Own Jo Ellen was released by the roots rock-friendly Hightone Records in late 2000, and December's Child followed in 2002.


Track Listing
1. How Can I Send Tonight (There To Tell You)
2. Still We Have A Friend In You
3. Alta's Song
4. Back To The Old Homeplace
5. December's Child
6. Nerstrand Woods
7. Cactus Wren
8. Climb These Steps (We Will)
9. How Can This Be
10. Say You'll Be Mine
11. One Eyed Black Dog Moses