For over three decades now, Conor Oberst has recorded a special strain of folk and rock that’s been the soundtrack of a generation (and the saving grace for a lot of people who just didn’t want to be on Earth anymore). While he’s worked under his own name, the Mystic Valley Band, and Desaparecidos—among other projects—it was the music of his most famous offering, Bright Eyes, that filled the air at St. Petersburg’s Jannus Live last Wednesday night.











































