Salutations

Description

Less than a year has passed since Connor Oberst released his solo album Ruminations, which he had previously composed in the solitude of his hometown of Omaha. In 2017, the mastermind of Bright Eyes releases another long player. Salutations is the name of his new companion album. When Oberst wrote the new songs for Ruminations with only piano and acoustic guitar, he had initially planned to record them with a band. However, while putting together that band, including the Felice Brothers from New York and drum legend Jim Keltner (Neil Young, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, John Lennon), he decided to make a solo album. The singer-songwriter took up the band projects a little later. At Rick Rubin’s famous Shangri-la studios in Malibu, he recorded Salutations with co-producer Keltner and his old acquaintance, musician and songwriter Andy LeMaster. There was also musical support from Jim James, Blake Mills, Maria Taylor, M Ward, Gillian Welch, Gus Seyffert, Pearl Charles, Nathaniel Walcott and Jonathan Wilson.