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Elliott Smith. Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he also played ...
Apr 16, 2020 · Phoebe Bridgers On Learning From Elliott Smith, 20 Years After 'Figure 8' A conversation with Phoebe Bridgers, a devout student of Smith's music, about how the final album of his lifetime lit a ...
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Oct 21, 2013 · In 1984, Elliott Smith—born Steven Paul Smith—moves to Portland from Duncanville, Texas, to live with his father, Gary Smith, and Gary’s wife Marta Greenwald. There, at Lincoln High School ...
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- Waltz #2 (XO) The title of Either/Or, Smith’s finest album, suggested a dichotomy: Smith was either a lo-fi singer-songwriter or a composer of lush, orchestrated pop.
- Between The Bars. It’s a testament to Smith’s songwriting mastery that “Between The Bars” sounds like a love song – which, in a twisted sense, it is, sung from alcohol to an alcoholic.
- Angeles. While “Say Yes” is the song that concludes Either/Or, it’s “Angeles” that bids farewell to the first half of Smith’s career. Softly-sung vocals and fingerpicked acoustic guitar had been Smith’s modus operandi for a few years, and he’d continue to record songs this way for the rest of his life, but ‘Angeles’ feels like a peak.
- Say Yes. Like the two tracks that follow on this list of the best Elliott Smith songs, “Say Yes” was one of three Either/Or highlights that also appeared in Good Will Hunting.
Apr 18, 2020 · The tragic story of Elliott Smith’s last album, 20 years on. Though it laid the groundwork for 2000s Americana, ‘Figure 8’ was the troubled songwriter’s curtain call, overshadowed by his ...
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Mar 30, 2023 · The Elliott Smith who wrote the soft, painfully resigned “Twilight” (“And if I went with you / I’d disappoint you, too”) is also the Elliott Smith who would confidently play Rachmaninoff ...
Oct 20, 2018 · A fond farewell: Remembering Elliott Smith, 15 years after his tragic and mysterious death. The year was 1998. The 70th Academy Awards took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and as ...
