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January 7, 2008

New Conan O'Brien Live Video - "Blue Moon Of Kentucky"

We didn't need to watch Conan covering Radiohead to see this development a mile away: no writers + late night time to kill = lots of Conan on guitar. Still didn't expect the awesomeness that is O'Brien full on singing and backed by Max Weinberg and the Max Weinberg 7 on Bill Monroe's old timey country bluegrass classic. Very awesome. Thank you, writers' strike?

He sounds great! And that is the best looking beard this side of Tom Cruise's (rimshot). Sorry, the WGA/AMPTP conflict clearly is affecting our monologue jokes, too.

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Let's just hope Leno doesn't start rapping.

Posted by: KLF at 01/07/08 1:11 PM | Reply
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"bang it out" - indeed.

Posted by: special ed at 01/07/08 1:16 PM | Reply
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holy crap. good job conan. he looks so happy with his performance!

Posted by: katie, a princess at 01/07/08 1:25 PM | Reply
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I posted the MP3 of this on Friday, here it is: http://skibrooklyn.blogspot.com/2008/01/conan-obrien-sings-blue-moon-of.html

Posted by: Matt at 01/07/08 1:26 PM | Reply
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Oh, Hell Yeah. Who knew...

Posted by: Jason at 01/07/08 1:29 PM | Reply
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He's actually pretty freakin' good!!

Posted by: Randy Haddock at 01/07/08 1:44 PM | Reply
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best thing ever?

Posted by: joey fresh at 01/07/08 2:59 PM | Reply
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sheba hai

Posted by: brent at 01/07/08 3:36 PM | Reply
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also bonus points on the beard joke. well done.

Posted by: brent at 01/07/08 3:40 PM | Reply
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I still insist, he's the funniest, and best, man on network TV.

Posted by: The Other Matthew at 01/07/08 3:51 PM | Reply
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the man has more talent than I can shake a stick at

Posted by: eric at 01/07/08 5:01 PM | Reply
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while i'm glad to see stereogum dipping their digital toes into music they never write about, "old timey country bluegrass," conan's performance has much more in common with that of another man with big hair -- elvis -- than with bill monroe

Posted by: m at 01/07/08 6:05 PM | Reply
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What a tasty guitar solo!

Posted by: Cynic at 01/08/08 1:30 PM | Reply
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gone..... :(

Posted by: rybear at 01/14/08 6:08 PM | Reply
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