Original sentence: " Ward said in that article that he looked to the post-war music of the late 1940s and 50s.He has guested on recordings by Cat Power, Beth Orton (with whom he co-wrote the title track to her album Comfort of Strangers), The Court & Spark, Bright Eyes (with whom he toured on the 2004 Vote For Change tour with R.In 2004 Ward played guitar for Bright Eyes on a taping of The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.In 2006, he released Post-War, which was described by  Vanity Fair in its August 2006 issue as thematic on the question "How will America heal once this craziness in Iraq is over
Edited sentence: " Ward said in that article that he looked to the post-war music of the late 1940s and 1950s.He has guested on recordings by Cat Power, Beth Orton (with whom he co-wrote the title track to her album Comfort of Strangers), The Court & Spark, Bright Eyes (with whom he toured on the 2004 Vote for Change tour with R.In 2004, Ward played guitar for Bright Eyes on a taping of The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.In 2006, he released Post-War, which was described by Vanity Fair in its August 2006 issue as thematic on the question "How will America heal once this craziness in Iraq is over