Bright Eyes http://virb.com/brighteyes Cassadaga pre-orders from the Saddle Creek online store are now shipping. For a limited time, pre-orders will include a special 3" CD (for CD pre-orders) or 7" (for LP pre-orders) of "Susan Miller Rag", a non-album track! If Wide Awake... was "the New York City album", then Cassadaga is "the America album", in which Oberst diaries his travels around the country and articulates his sense of history in the landscape. Should you have looked for them you'd have found them tucked away in various studios around the country. Recording for the first time outside of the Lincoln, NE studio belonging to Mogis, the Bright Eyes cast of players were busy in studios in Portland, OR, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. The line up of Bright Eyes players includes Andy Lemaster (Now It's Overhead), Ben Kweller, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Janet Weiss (ex-Sleater Kinney), Jason Boesel (Rilo Kiley), John McEntire (Tortoise), M.Ward, Maria Taylor and Rachael Yamagata. Cassadaga itself crops up in the same song. The town, a community for psychics in central Florida, is visited in order to "commune with the dead". This wandering spirit is crystalized in "I Must Belong Somewhere" a song which was already a staple of live shows by the end of the 2005. "Hot Knives" is particularly spirited, bringing to mind the true energy of a Bright Eyes show. Likewise, "Soul Singer In A Session Band" - a rousing paean to an oxymoronic profession - enlists all of the elements which make the Bright Eyes live band such a euphoric experience. "Make A Plan To Plan To Love Me" is Bright Eyes at their most playful; a straight-up love song, replete with girl group vocals and Burt Bacharach strings. Oberst, the fumbling guitarist whose impassioned prose tumbles out under stark stage spotlights, is still recognizable in every track, but the songs are rich with elaborate production, cinema-sized orchestration and, at times, sprawling, almost psychedelic, atmospherics. This Profile is Maintained by Saddle Creek Records]]> Virb 2.0 (@brighteyes) en Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed) http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54126 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:57:01 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54126 Make A Plan To Love Me http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54125 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:54:10 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54125 Soul Singer In A Session Band http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54123 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:52:08 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54123 Four Winds http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54120 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:50:03 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54120 No One Would Riot For Less http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54117 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:47:41 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54117 Coat Check Dream Song http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54115 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:44:43 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54115 If The Brakeman Turns My Way http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54113 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:42:34 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54113 I Must Belong Somewhere http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54112 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:39:57 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54112 Hot Knives http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54110 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:36:50 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54110 Classic Cars http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54108 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:34:47 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54108 Middleman http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54107 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:32:36 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54107 Cleanse Song http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54105 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:30:17 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54105 Lime Tree http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54100 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:28:34 -0700 http://virb.com/brighteyes/audio/54100 Four Winds http://virb.com/brighteyes/videos/1731197 Video for the song Four Winds off of the upcoming record Cassadaga

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