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- Date Released: January 25, 2005
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Saddle Creek
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Last time around, Conor Oberst -- who for all intents and purposes, is Bright Eyes -- shoved all of his interests into one long, overstuffed epic, but with the simultaneously I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, he separates the country-rock on the former and the messy modernistic indie rock on the latter, as if to counter the criticisms that he can't focus. I'm Wide Awake is designed as a nakedly honest singer/songwriter album, somewhat inspired by the classics of the genre in the '70s -- he even recruits Emmylou Harris for some harmonies, hoping that some of the Gram Parsons' magic will rub off. Stripped of the careening, dramatic, arrangements of Lifted, Oberst's music seems simpler, and while his voice -- a quavering bleat that's halfway between Feargal Sharkey and the Dead Milkmen's Rodney Anonymous -- is an acquired taste; fans will find this to be his most direct album yet.
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Credits
- Emmylou Harris - Vocals // Bright Eyes - Main Performer // Bright Eyes - Main Performer // Jesse Harris - Guitar // Alex McManus - Guitar // Andy LeMaster - Vocals // Mike Mogis - Mandolin // Mike Mogis - Pedal Steel // Mike Mogis - Guitar (12 String) // Mike Mogis - Engineer // Mike Mogis - Mixing // Clark Baechle - Drums // Maria Taylor - Vocals // Jim James - Vocals // Jim James - Engineer // Doug Van Sloun - Mastering // Jake Bellows - Harmonica // Jake Bellows - Vocals // Jason Boesel - Drums // Conor Oberst - Guitar // Conor Oberst - Guitar // Conor Oberst - Vocals // Conor Oberst - Vocals // Tim Luntzel - Bass // Zack Nipper - Artwork // Nate Walcott - Trumpet // Jadon Ulrich - Layout Design // Matt Maginn - Bass // Emmy Lou - Engineer // Nick White - Organ // Nick White - Piano // Nick White - Fender Rhodes
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