Bright Eyes - LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to The Ground Let The Morning Come as a musician’s escape from

as a musician’s escape from the cookie cutter world of modern rock radio at the time

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we've rummaged backstage at The Muppet Theatre to dust off timeless recordings like the Oscar-nominated "Rainbow Connection" and the road trip ditty

entered the top 5 on both the single and top 200 charts and went on to be certified Platinum 4 times over

Bright Eyes - LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to The Ground Let The Morning Come as a musician’s escape fromThe first three are innocent in a way, because we didn't have an audience when we were making them," Oberst says. "But from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well received right away, and then everything happened with Wide Awake and Digital Ash." Those two albums came out simultaneously. And their lead singles "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)," from the austere, remote Digital Ash, and "Lua," from the warm, folky Wide Awake