Salutations

Salutations
Conor Oberst will release a new album, Salutations, on Nonesuch Records, on March 17, 2017.Â

The album is a companion piece to 2016's lauded Ruminations. When Oberst wrote and recorded the songs on Ruminations, entirely soloâ€”with just voice, piano, guitar and harmonicaâ€”he intended to ultimately record them with a full band. In the midst of putting together that bandâ€”upstate New York's The Felice Brothers plus the legendary drummer Jim Keltner (Neil Young, Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and many more)â€”the passionate responses Oberst was getting to those first solo recordings, from friends and colleagues, encouraged him to release the songs as-is, in their original sparse form, as his seventh solo album: Ruminations, which was released in October 2016. The Sunday Times of London called it "the rawest album yet from the forever troubled one-time voice of a generation" and "political and very, very personal," saying Oberst is "one of the best songwriters around."

Meanwhile, Oberst simultaneously moved ahead with his plans to record with the band, heading to the famed Shangri-la Studios in Malibu to record Salutationsâ€”co-produced with Keltner and engineered by long-time musical compadre Andy LeMaster. Guest contributions come courtesy of Jim James, Blake Mills, Maria Taylor, M Ward, Gillian Welch, Gus Seyffert, Pearl Charles, Nathaniel Walcott, and Jonathan Wilson.

Salutations includes full-band versions of the ten songs from Ruminations, plus seven additional songs, some from an additional session at Five Star Studios in Echo Park in fall 2016. Oberst, who is currently touring Europe, will tour the United States with The Felice Brothers as his backing band in celebration of Salutations beginning March 9 in his hometown of Omaha, with stops at Los Angeles's Greek Theater in May and Celebrate Brooklyn Festival in July. See below for all of the currently scheduled US shows. Oberst has partnered with Plus 1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to support Planned Parenthood and their work delivering vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people in the US and worldwide. Tickets for the March shows go on sale starting Saturday, January 21; tickets for the May and July dates go on sale starting Friday, January 27.

Oberst says of the Salutations sessions: "Jim was really the captain of the ship and the spiritual leader of the project. We leaned heavy on his fifty-plus years of musical insight to get us to where we needed to be. He brought such depth and dignity to the proceedings that made everyone else involved rise to the occasion. It was a true stroke of luck that he got involved when he did."

TOUR DATES
- Mar 9 - The Waiting Room Lounge, Omaha, NE
- Mar 10 - Madrid Theater, Kansas City, MO
- Mar 11 - Minglewood Hall, Memphis, TN
- Mar 12 - Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK
- Mar 14 - Paper Tiger, San Antonio, TX
- Mar 16 - Luck Reunion, Spicewood, TX
- Mar 17 - Warehouse Live, Houston, TX
- Mar 18 - Civic Theatre, New Orleans, LA
- Mar 19 - Cox Capital Theatre, Macon, GA
- Mar 21 - The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
- Mar 22 - Track 29, Chatanooga, TN
- Mar 23 - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
- Mar 24 - Bluegrass Underground, McMinnville, TN
- Mar 25 - The Pagaent, St. Louis, MO
- Mar 26 - The Englert Theater, Iowa City, IA
- May 12 - The Fox, Oakland, CA
- May 13 - The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
- May 19 - ACL Live at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX
- Jul 20 - Celebrate Brooklyn!, Brooklyn, NY
- Jul 21 - The House of Blues, Boston, MA
Country USA
Brand WEA
Manufacturer Nonesuch
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 0075597940176
Model 0075597940176
ReleaseDate 2017-03-17
UnitCount 1
UPCs 075597940176
EANs 0075597940176

Country	USA
Brand	WEA
Manufacturer	Nonesuch
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	0075597940176
Model	0075597940176
ReleaseDate	2017-03-17
UnitCount	1
UPCs	075597940176
EANs	0075597940176

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