There Is No Beginning to the Story
by Bright Eyes
- Type: EP
- Released: 14 May 2002
- Label: Saddle Creek
- Country: United States
- Length: 19:06
- Community rating: 3.44/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Orenda Fink, Eric Dimenstein, Jason Flatowicz, Matt Maginn, Casey Scott, Maria Taylor, Doug Van Sloun, Simon Joyner, Margret Fish, Stefanie Drootin, Ground Control Touring, Chris Brooks, Jiha Lee, Roslyn Maginn
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Serving as a lush, folk-rock prelude to 'Lifted...', this EP captures Conor Oberst's songwriting at its most poetically unhinged. The release introduces extensive orchestration and brass arrangements to the Saddle Creek artist's deeply vulnerable indie-folk foundation.
Genres
Descriptors: Acoustic, alienation, melodic
Tracklist
- From a Balance Beam (3:40)
- Messenger Bird's Song (5:29)
- We Are Free Men (4:35)
- Loose Leaves (3:42)
- Untitled (1:38)
Credits
- Conor Oberst - arranged by [horn arrangements], guitar, electric piano [rhodes], piano, voice
- Todd Baechle - arranged by [horn arrangements], voice
- Casey Scott - bass, percussion
- Clark Baechle - drums [the drum corps]
- Clay Leverett - drums [the drum corps], voice
- Clint Schnase - drums [the drum corps]
- Matt Focht - drums [the drum corps]
- Mike Sweeney - drums [the drum corps]
- Zack Nipper - artwork [diorama], layout
- Doug Van Sloun - mastered by
- Eric Dimenstein - booking
- Ground Control Touring - booking