Product Description
Conor Oberst is running on dangerous ground: getting his first Dylan comparisons at age 12, frolicking with Winona Ryder, releasing two separate albums at once. Didn't he learn anything from Ryan Adams's mistakes? It's a good thing he can write such haunting, intimate songs. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (released simultaneously with Digital Ash in a Digital Urn) is the album the Omaha native has always threatened to make, channeling his country rock influences into articulate, witty ballads that come to life with gorgeous harmonies supplied by Emmylou Harris. The tumbling "We Are Nowhere and It's Now" might be his first actual masterpiece, while the words of album closer "Road to Joy" ("I could've been a famous singer if I had someone else's voice/ But failure's always sounded better") indicate that Oberst might have his head screwed on right after all. -- Aidin Vaziri
- Track Listings : Disc 1
- At The Bottom Of Everything - (with Jim James)
- We Are Nowhere And It's Now - (with Emmylou Harris)
- Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) - (with Emmylou Harris)
- Lua
- Train Under Water
- First Day Of My Life
- Another Travelin' Song
- Landlocked Blues - (with Emmylou Harris)
- Poison Oak
- Road To Joy
