Bright Eyes stops by the Uptown on April 2

The last time I saw Bright Eyes play Kansas City was in 2005, when he played with the Faint following Oberst’s double release of I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. (I was, ahem, a big fan. Big. Fan.) It was a disappointment: Oberst was cataclysmically drunk, played about seven songs, cried, and stumbled off the stage.
But let’s put those dark times behind us, shall we? Now, Oberst is back on the road with a new album under his original singer-songwriter moniker, and it’s nothing like the weepy, wide-eyed rock that fans have heard from the Saddle Creek songwriter before. In fact, Oberst has gone on record saying that his new work is influenced by Rastafarian philosophy. Like, as in, reggae. What?