Check Out New Music From Conor Oberst!

We’ve got two new tracks from Conor Oberst for you to enjoy. Here’s the lowdown from the folks at Warner Bros:

Conor Oberst releases a new album, SALUTATIONS, on Nonesuch Records, on March 17, 2017. SALUTATIONS is a companion piece to 2016’s lauded RUMINATIONS.

Pre-order CONOR OBERST’s SALUTATIONS here.

Check out the video for A Little Uncanny directed by Josh Rawson (The Felice Brothers).

When Oberst wrote and recorded the songs on RUMINATIONS, entirely solo – with just voice, piano, guitar and harmonica – he intended to ultimately record them with a full band. In the midst of putting together that band – upstate New York’s The Felice Brothers plus the legendary drummer Jim Keltner (Neil Young, Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and many more) – the passionate responses Oberst was getting to those first solo recordings, from friends and colleagues, encouraged him to release the songs as-is, in their original sparse form, as RUMINATIONS. Pitchfork called it “a record like none other in Oberst’s catalog, stunning for how utterly alone he sounds,” and the UK’s Sunday Times called it, “The rawest album yet from the forever troubled one-time voice of a generation.

Meanwhile, Oberst simultaneously moved ahead with his plans to record with the band, heading to the famed Shangri-la Studios in Malibu to record SALUTATIONS – co-produced with Keltner and engineered by long-time musical compadre Andy LeMaster. Guest contributions come courtesy of Pearl Charles, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Blake Mills, Maria Taylor (Azure Ray), Gus Seyffert, Nathaniel Walcott, M Ward (She & Him), Gillian Welch, and Jonathan Wilson.

Oberst says of the SALUTATIONS sessions: “Jim Keltner was really the captain of the ship and the spiritual leader of the project. We leaned heavy on his fifty-plus years of musical insight to get us to where we needed to be. He brought such depth and dignity to the proceedings that made everyone else involved rise to the occasion. It was a true stroke of luck that he got involved when he did.”

Listen to the track Napalm here.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-O-1FXsUIo&feature=youtu.be

SALUTATIONS includes full band versions of the ten songs from RUMINATIONS, plus seven additional songs, some from an additional session at Five Star Studios in Echo Park in fall 2016.