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'Gary Louris' (born March 10, 1955 in Toledo, Ohio) is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band The Jayhawks, and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the departure of Mark Olson; he is often credited with the band's subsequent move from folk-country toward a more progressive, poppier sound.
Gary Louris grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where he took piano lessons before becoming a guitarist as a teenager.
The Jayhawks were formed in 1985 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Louris had formerly played guitar in a rockabilly band called Safety Last. The Jayhawks recorded seven albums prior to going on indefinite haitus in 2005.
Louris is also a member of the intermittent Midwest musical collective/side-project Golden Smog; other members have included fellow Jayhawk Marc Perlman, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy from Soul Asylum, Kraig Johnson of Run Westy Run and Chris Mars of The Replacements.
In spring 2005, Louris and Olson toured together billed as "From the Jayhawks: An Evening with Mark Olson & Gary Louris, Together Again."
Louris is a songwriter on the 2006 Dixie Chicks album Taking the Long Way.
He co-wrote the Nickel Creek song Jealous of the Moon with Chris Thile in 2005, and it appeared on the Nickel Creek album Why Should the Fire Die?.
In 2007, Louris says he will be collaborating with former Jayhawks partner Mark Olson on a possible duo project.
Louris is married and has a son.
''Trivia''
A 1968 Gibson SG guitar reputed to have been formerly owned by lead guitarist John King of The Litter is now owned and frequently used by Gary Louris of the Jayhawks and Golden Smog. The Gibson SG guitar was owned from 1977-1986 by Kevin Waddick. Chris Osgood, at the time the guitarist of the legendary Suicide Commandos seminal punk trio, originally suggested that Kevin Waddick buy the guitar and then was the one who later informed Gary Louris that it was for sale.

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★ Interview and live performance on TV Show Corporate Country Sucks