Sweetness call it lyricism is Oberst's great gift even when love turns sour.
The love songs that predominate, as they usually do with Oberst, are long on social context.
Steeped in blue-eyed soul, gospel and rock, the album featured guest appearances by Conor Oberst, M.
Ward, Ben Kweller and Janet Weiss, and finds the 27-year-old Oberst continuing to mature and explore new ideas.
Also, as a not-so-private expert, I could tell Oberst that privacy has been a concern for many, many years.
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While critical reaction to the first record was mixed, 1998's Letting Off The Happiness put Oberst's name on the indie-rock radar.
Right before comes a more typical Oberst opus, "Danny Callahan, " a reflection on love and solitude that ends with the death of a child.
If you've not yet heard Bright Eyes or any music by Conor Oberst you should know that he's a prolific, smart songwriter.
But where Oberst's persona is wide-eyed and vulnerable, O'Brien's is brooding and elusive, making Becoming a Jackal a beautiful but emotionally and sonically complicated album.
Initially created as a side project while Oberst led the band Commander Venus, Bright Eyes became his primary focus upon Commander Venus' 1997 dissolution.
Conor Oberst (the person) produced Conor Oberst (the album) pretty much on an impulse while visiting the mystical mountain town of Tepoztlan in Mexico earlier this year.
The simultaneous 2005 release of I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn was accompanied by television and award-show appearances, officially marking Oberst's entry into stardom.
And as he makes clear with the many songs about travel on an album that touches down in five named locations, Oberst expects his band to be on the road for a long time.
'Take it Easy (Love Nothing)' is from Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst) and my runner up was 'Fell Down the Stairs' by Tilly and the Wall, from an album co-produced by Conor Oberst.
Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst is often cited as one of the best songwriters making music today, and he's credited David Dondero for his whole sound. (Dondero's latest CD South of the South was released on Oberst's Team Love label).
Comparisons will inevitably be made between Conor O'Brien of Villagers and Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst not only because of the similarity in their names, but also for their similar voices and tentacles that reach back to shared heroes such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Robert Wyatt.
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