I’m dedicating this week to Elliott Smith, an artist who numbers among my favorites but who for some reason has gotten very short shrift on the blog up until now. In fact, I’ve featured only one of his songs over the 721 preceding this one (I did write about a cover of another Elliott Smith song, so I suppose that’s technically two).

I’ll make up for that this week by highlighting songs from five of his albums, starting with his self-titled 1995 release. This actually wasn’t his first album… that would be 1994’s Roman Candle, which for some reason I don’t have in my CD collection. That album followed a three-year stint with a band called Heatmiser, and those early years form the missing piece in my Elliott Smith knowledge.

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