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Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst clandestinely make an L.A.-inspired album

LOS ANGELES - Back in October, Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers shared a bill out at Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown, Calif.

The two had collaborated before, on a duet of Bridgers' song "Would You Rather" from her 2017 debut. But outside, in the chilly night air, Bridgers' spare songs about the haze of memory and her macabre nightmares took on an expansive new power.

Oberst, the Bright Eyes founder famous for his hyper-intimate, richly orchestrated style, let his hair down with his Mystic Valley Band, evoking the '70s cosmic-country barnstormers who would make a long weekend of dropping acid out in the crags there.

It turns out the two would soon regularly be sharing stages.

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