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  1. ARTIST: Conor Oberst
  2. TITLE: Conor Oberst
  3. LABEL: Merge
  4. GENRE: Indie
  5. BITRATE: 183kbps avg
  6. PLAYTIME: 0h 42m total
  7. RELEASE DATE: 2008-08-04
  8. RIP DATE: 2008-07-23
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  10. Track List
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  12. 1.  Cape Canaveral                   4:04
  13. 2.  Sausalito                        3:10
  14. 3.  Get-Well-Cards                   3:33
  15. 4.  Lenders in the Temple            4:35
  16. 5.  Danny Callahan                   3:58
  17. 6.  I Don't Want To Die (In The      3:32
  18.     Hospital)
  19. 7.  Eagle on a Pole                  4:42
  20. 8.  Moab                             1:11
  21. 9.  NYC - Gone, Gone                 3:36
  22. 10. Valle Mistico (Ruben's Song)     0:49
  23. 11. Souled Out!!!                    3:32
  24. 12. Milk Thistle                     5:20
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  26. Release Notes:
  27.  
  28. For those who recall scouring eBay for $100+ copies of that holy trinity of
  29. early Conor Oberst cassettes (not me, I swear)-- 1993's Water, 1994's Here's to
  30. Special Treatment, and 1995's The Soundtrack to My Movie-- August 4, 2008 will
  31. mark a particularly special occasion. For it is on that special day that the
  32. Bright Eye'd troubadour will release a very special album, his first solo
  33. offering in some 13 years. That's like half an Oberst lifetime!
  34.  
  35. The self-titled affair contains a dozen tracks and comes at us courtesy of-- no,
  36. not Saddle Creek...nope, not Team Love either...and heavens no, not a major--
  37. but rather Merge Records, home to longtime Oberst buddy M. Ward and something I
  38. keep hearing about called the Arcade Fire, whatever that is.
  39.  
  40. Oberst laid Conor Oberst to tape in Mexico earlier this year with help from his
  41. pal Andy LeMaster (Now It's Overhead) and a "special band" known as the Mystic
  42. Valley Band. If that sounds familiar, perhaps you noticed Conor and the Mystic
  43. Valley Band among the Austin City Limits elite or caught them live at the tail
  44. end of 2007. The new crew has also announced a couple more festival appearances
  45. in the months to come, with the promise of a tour "throughout the summer."
  46.  
  47. Oh boy, can't wait to hear "Souled Out!!!"!