“Hundreds Of Ways” by Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst wrote "Hundreds of Ways" on his own, words and music, for Upside Down Mountain, his sixth solo album, released on Nonesuch in May 2014, and produced it with Jonathan Wilson, who turns up all over the track on guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion. The credits read like a house party: Joshua Grange on pedal steel, a horn trio of Nate Walcott on trumpet, Peter Madsen on trombone and Scott Vicroy on saxophone, and voices from Johanna and Klara Söderberg, Andy LeMaster and more.

Oberst framed the album as a return to an earlier way of writing, a more intimate record about language. He said he wasn't the greatest guitarist, pianist or singer; what he brings, in his telling, is melody welded to poetry he's proud of.

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