Back Roads and Abandoned Motels is The Jayhawks' tenth studio album and first for Legacy Recordings (who issued the group's first compilation, Music From The North Country - The Jayhawks Anthology, in 2009 followed by releases of expanded Legacy Editions of the group's fabled breakout titles - Hollywood Town Hall and Tomorrow the Green Grass - in 2011). Produced by Gary Louris, John Jackson and Ed Ackerson at Flowers Studio in Minneapolis, Back Roads and Abandoned Motels sets nine songs co-written by Louris with other artists alongside two of Gary's latest compositions.