Bright Eyes - Another Travelin' Song Lyrics

Skeptic tank episode #322 brought me here.

Hilarious watching the Brooklyn crowd assure itself. "Oh my. No, no. It's not country. He writes of being 'hunched over a typewriter, after all." Get with it, y'all.

One of my very best friends has been playing this song for a long time around me and I have always gotten goosebumps listening to it.  Tonight when he went to start playing it on my guitar, I just typed in a couple lyrics that he was singing and quickly googled the lyrics.  To my surprise this is what came up.. ROght now this second, hes playing along with it, in nearly perfect harmony.  Nothing like having a private personal show from a musician I would pay to see but hes my friend, and hes playing a song that Ive liked for along time hearing him sing it.  Bright Eyes, you guys are aweosme.  Just wanted to  let you know.

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Sean Culver
Great story.
Although I'm a tiny bit concerned about the 'near perfect harmony' line....
Heh~heh.

Makes me want to listen to Cash...

Great rockabilly song!

Well my sister played this in the car. And now I have been listening to this song reapeatvley. Thanks Jess xD

Totally agreed on that.

She's saying that it's not country. It's indie-folk. Because of what Fox5593 said, saying it was country.

This is a country song, but it's not like the commercial country you hear on "country" radio (which is basically pop music with a twang), this modern outlaw/alt-country like Sturgill Simpson, Kacey Musgraves, Ryan Adams, Chris Stapleton, etc

what i refer to as "radio country" is just another form of pop music. the elders of country music would puke in their mouths at the sound of big and rich. country can be cool when its about heartbreak and telling a story.

who cares about the genre its great regardless

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Marcelis Adams I love dudes man

Fucking adore this. Adore him. Hope he never gets discouraged and keeps cranking out lyrical genius in the form of catchy indie-folk songs!

not at all country...

@FreddieDontAskWhy16 ???????

It's indie-folk

there sure are some ignorant-ass comments here. The song's backup vocals are done by Emmylou Harris --one of the goddesses of country. Oberst likes to mix his genres. Country is not a dirty word; the country and folk genres are closely linked and often blur together. Amazing that some people think that Taylor Swift is representative of the country genre....

megantron Conor Oberst is the only good country artist

Ok fine Johnny Cash too

@DareToDream3 this is what he is listed as Indie rock, indie folk, folk rock, indie pop, post-hardcore, alternative country

this doesn't sound like country to me. It's folk!

@89MetalHeart Except with a better voice, lol. I'm saying that with humor, though: I love Dylan.

isnt this folk music? well its sure as hell not country, country is like taylor swift and carrie underwood and that shit. folk music is where its at. like mumford and sons and the decemberists and cursive, etc...

jillybean190 calling Carrie Underwood and Swift country music is like calling Metallica and Lamb of God rythem and blues. Hank III, Jamison, Wayne Hancock is country music. Those two are candy ass pop music played on cookie cutter so called country music stations that, for the most part, play no talent hacks. My son (rip) turned me on to this band and I must say they have an extreme amount of talent.

@89MetalHeart

Expect totally not at all. Bright Eyes is Bright Eyes it's one of those bands that in a lot of ways defies shallow genre comparisons and is totally unique in every way.

Er, Bright Eyes is Indie Rock..

@Fox5593 HELL YEAH BROTHA!