I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2016 Reissue)

by Bright Eyes

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eve folk tunes that make you feel everything from heartbroken to euphoric. this album is the shit Favorite track: We Are Nowhere and It's Now.

aquarian_barbarian Thoughtful music performed and recorded beautifully. I love this record like I love a good sunset.

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1.	At the Bottom of Everything 04:33	buy track
2.	We Are Nowhere and It's Now 04:12	buy track
3.	Old Soul Song (for the New World Order) 04:29	buy track
4.	Lua 04:31	buy track
5.	Train Under Water 06:06	buy track
6.	First Day Of My Life 03:08	buy track
7.	Another Travelin' Song 04:16	buy track
8.	Land Locked Blues 05:47	buy track
9.	Poison Oak 04:39	buy track
10.	Road to Joy 03:53	buy track

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I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2016 Reissue)

“The first three are innocent in a way, because we didn’t have an audience when we were making them,” Oberst says. “But from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well-received right away, and then everything happened with Wide Awake and Digital Ash.” Those two albums came out simultaneously. And their lead singles – “Take It Easy (Love Nothing),” from the austere, remote Digital Ash, and “Lua,” from the warm, folky Wide Awake - debuted in the top two slots on the Billboard Hot 100. “First Day of My Life,” also from Wide Awake, would later be voted the Number One love song of all time by NPR Music’s reader’s poll.

Bright Eyes had officially broken through. It was a heady, exciting time, but also fraughtand tense, both because of the band’s careening new fame, and because of the state of the world. When Bright Eyes made their Tonight Show debut in 2006, they chose to perform none of their shiny new hits, instead delivering a searing, harrowing rendition of their caustic anti-Bush anthem, “When The President Talks To God.”

These days, Oberst is still amusing himself by messing with the extremes Bright Eyes baked into this era’s releases, extremes that reflected the polar, with-us-or-against-us, fractious feel of the times. The reworked Digital Ash tracks, originally so clean and elegant, are, on the companion EP, full of “harmonica and mandolins – folky vibes,” Oberst says. While the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs have been put through a detached nihilism filter.

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released November 11, 2022

Produced by Bright Eyes
Mixed by Mike Mogis
Recorded at ARC Studios in Omaha, NE by Mike Mogis and the Highland Hotel in Los Angeles, CA by Nathaniel Walcott
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Recorded Nov 2021 through January 2022

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Bright Eyes Omaha, Nebraska

Bright Eyes are the Omaha, Nebraska based band consisting of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott.

shows

Jan 16

The Van Buren

Phoenix, AZ
Jan 18

The Sound

Del Mar, CA
Jan 19

The Observatory

Santa Ana, CA
Jan 20

Ace of Spades

Sacramento, CA
Jan 21

McDonald Theatre

Eugene, OR
Jan 23

Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC
Jan 24

Paramount Theatre

Seattle, WA
Jan 25

McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

Portland, OR
Jan 26

McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

Portland, OR
Feb 6

Fox Theater

Oakland, CA
Feb 7

The Wiltern

Los Angeles (LA), CA
Feb 26

George's Majestic Lounge

Fayetteville, AR
Feb 27

ACL Live at The Moody Theater

Austin, TX
Feb 28

The Factory in Deep Ellum

Dallas, TX
Mar 1

Aztec Theater

San Antonio, TX
Mar 2

Chelsea’s Live

Baton Rouge, LA
Mar 3

Florida Theatre

Jacksonville, FL
Mar 5

Jannus Live

St Petersburg, FL
Mar 7

The Beacham

Orlando, FL
Mar 8

Tabernacle

Atlanta, GA
Mar 9

The Mill & Mine

Knoxville, TN
Mar 10

The National

Richmond, VA
Mar 13

The Orange Peel

Asheville, NC
Mar 14

The Caverns

Pelham, TN
Mar 17

Minglewood Hall

Memphis, TN
Mar 18

The Hall

Little Rock, AR
Mar 20

Cain's Ballroom

Tulsa, OK
Mar 21

Uptown Theater

Kansas City, MO
Mar 22

The Pageant

St Louis, MO
Mar 26

Julia Davis Park

Boise, ID
Apr 1

Washington's

Fort Collins, CO
Apr 3

The Sylvee

Madison, WI
Apr 4

Palace Theatre

St. Paul, MN
Apr 5

The Salt Shed

Chicago, IL
Apr 5

Salt Shed at Morton Salt

Chicago, IL
Apr 5

The Salt Shed Indoors (Shed)

Chicago, IL
Apr 8

Royal Oak Music Theatre

Royal Oak, MI
Apr 9

Agora Theatre

Cleveland, OH
Apr 10

History

Toronto, ON
Apr 11

Buffalo RiverWorks

Buffalo, NY
Apr 13

State Theatre

Portland, ME
Apr 17

Brooklyn Paramount Theater

Brooklyn, NY
Apr 18

House of Blues Boston

Boston, MA
Apr 19

The Met

Philadelphia, PA
Apr 20

The Anthem

Washington, DC
Apr 22

Roxian Theatre

Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 23

Megacorp Pavilion

Newport, KY

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