Video: Conor Oberst (Live in Omaha)
With Bright Eyes now a marquee act at high-capacity theaters the world over, opportunities to catch Conor Oberst performing an intimate set — like, say, this Halloween 2003 tribute to Elliott Smith in a bookshop — have become increasingly rare. Enter Krug Park, a new Omaha bar owned by an Oberst buddy who recruited his famous friend to anoint the small space last week. Thanks to videographer Jonathan Tvrdik (via NJ Underground), we have a fine multi-camera peek at two songs from the show. Watch above as vibraphones, violins, and ultimately the crowd join in for “Lenders in the Temple” and “Laura Laurent.”
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Bob Dylan performed on television last night in tribute to Martin Scorsese, who was being feted by the Critics’ Choice Awards for his music documentary work. In the performance that followed an introduction by George Harrison’s widow, Olivia, Dylan didn’t pluck an obviously reverent cut from his oeuvre, however, opting to treat the No Direction Home director and room full of Hollywood A-listers to 1983 rarity “Blind Willie McTell” — perhaps alluding to Scorsese’s The Blues series. Watch the poet laureate of rock, whose damaged voice and unpredictable phrasing still pulls through for old blues-style tunes, baffle the crowd above.
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