Conor Oberst on "Undo the Right"

One by Willie

John Spong

Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Brilliant indie rock-pop-and-folk singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, of Bright Eyes and Monsters of Folk fame, talks about another of Willie’s famous Pamper Demos, “Undo the Right.” It was one of Willie’s earliest efforts for the Pamper Publishing Company, a co-write with Hank Cochran, the legendary songwriter who first championed him when he moved to Nashville. That gets Conor thinking about the craft of songwriting, about how sneaking contradictory or counterintuitive ideas into songs helps them to better reflect what he calls the "big mess” of real life, and how nobody writes a bridge like Willie does…before we listen to another old Willie song, “The Storm Has Just Begun,” which was the B-side to his first single in 1959—and that Willie wrote when he was just twelve years old.

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0:57.1	Hey there, I'm John Spong, and this is One by Willie, a podcast in which I talk each week
1:02.9	to one notable Willie Nelson fan about one Willie song that they really love.
1:07.9	This week, we wrap up season six of the show with an artist who's one of my very
1:12.4	favorite singer-songwriters from the band's Bright Eyes and Monsters of Folk, indie rock, pop, and
1:18.0	folk icon Connor Oberst, is going to talk about yet another of Willie's famous Pamper
1:22.6	demos, Undo the Right. It was one of Willie's earliest efforts for the Pampor Publishing Company,
1:28.5	a co-write with Hank Cochran,
1:30.3	the legendary songwriter who first championed him when he moved to Nashville,
1:33.9	and it gets Connor thinking about the craft of songwriting,
1:37.0	about how sneaking contradictory or counterintuitive ideas into songs
1:40.7	helps them to better reflect what he calls the big mess of real life, and then he
1:45.7	talks about how nobody writes a bridge like Willie does. Oh, and then also, given Conner's own
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