Conor Oberst will release a new album, Salutations, on Nonesuch Records, on March 17, 2017.
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The album is a companion piece to 2016’s Ruminations. 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 his seventh solo album: Ruminations, which was released in October 2016.
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 longtime musical compadre Andy LeMaster. Guest contributions come courtesy of Jim James, Blake Mills, Maria Taylor, M. Ward, Gillian Welch, Gus Seyffert, Pearl Charles, Nathaniel Walcott, and Jonathan Wilson.
Track List:
Too Late to Fixate
Gossamer Thin
Overdue
Afterthought
Next Of Kin
Napalm
Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch)
Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out
Barbary Coast (Later)
Tachycardia
Empty Hotel by the Sea
Anytime Soon
Counting Sheep
The Rain Follows the Plow
You All Loved Him Once
A Little Uncanny
Salutations
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. With The Felice Brothers as his backing band, Conor will tour in support of Salutations beginning March 9 in his hometown of Omaha, with stops at LA’s Greek Theater in May and Celebrate Brooklyn in July. Full dates on the Shows page.