I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
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Artist: Bright Eyes
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Music Label: Saddle Creek
Soundtracks:
  1. At The Bottom Of Everything - (with Jim James)
  2. We Are Nowhere And It's Now - (with Emmylou Harris)
  3. Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) - (with Emmylou Harris)
  4. Lua
  5. Train Under Water
  6. First Day Of My Life
  7. Another Travelin' Song
  8. Landlocked Blues - (with Emmylou Harris)
  9. Poison Oak
  10. Road To Joy

Free Music Notes for I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

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Hit: 3 Stars

I discovered Bright Eyes after I was informed there was a video my boyfriend liked and had taped it off of Logo. A dreamy little acoustic ballad called "First Day Of My Life" it quickly became our song, and I ran out to buy the CD.

As I began some research I discovered I was probably the only person who hadn't heard of Bright Eyes as he was deemed some kind of indie musical genius around the time of this album's release, being compared to Dylan and the like, and always being known as having recorded since the age of 13, Conor Oberst, the man behind Bright Eyes (it's just him and a revolving door of musicians) released this album in early 2005.

A set of acoutstically driven sometime country flavored songs, its ten songs of wordy poetics and longing - my favorite things. With Emmylou Harris showing up for some harmony there's a lot to really gather in these ditties - "Another Travelin' Song" reminds me of some Dylan while the awesome words of "Poison Oak" and the drama of "At The Bottom Of Everything" reminds me of old story songs of the 60s and the cool calm collective of people like Joni Mitchell and Emmylou. It's an interesting little bit of musical poetry for sure.

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Poster

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
Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst continues to earn his reputation as our most respected young troubadour with almost frightening ease. For the past few years he's been tagged "rock's boy genius" by the music press. These albums are a soundly articulated slice of modern life rolled into two very different records, both bursting with all the heartfelt poetry for which Bright Eyes' records have earned their acclaim. Of course, the rough edges haven't gone away - the palpitation of a splintering note, the crack of a voice as it overextends, the clumsy thump of a misplaced thumb. It's all still there. But there's a glorious new level of depth, a maturation of texture, writing and delivery. His best work yet.

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