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.
“bang it out” – indeed.
holy crap. good job conan. he looks so happy with his performance!
I posted the MP3 of this on Friday, here it is: http://skibrooklyn.blogspot.com/2008/01/conan-obrien-sings-blue-moon-of.html
Oh, Hell Yeah. Who knew…
He’s actually pretty freakin’ good!!
best thing ever?
sheba hai
also bonus points on the beard joke. well done.
I still insist, he’s the funniest, and best, man on network TV.
the man has more talent than I can shake a stick at
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
What a tasty guitar solo!
gone…..