Welcome to a season three bonus episode! Our guest today is the actor Joe Gilgun, who's been in films and TV programmes such as This is England, Misfits and Preacher, and you currently see him on screens in the UK in Brassic, a show he also created.

It's a bonus episode because Joe had so many different Elliott Smith songs he wanted to pick, we decided to discuss several tracks, rather than just one. We also talk about why he relates to Elliott's music so much, particularly the honesty of the lyrics.

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Our guest today is Joan Wasser (aka Joan as Police Woman). Joan is a musician, who started off her career playing with several bands including the Dambuilders, Antony and the Johnsons and Those Bastard Souls. Since the early 2000s, Joan has principally released music as a successful solo artist, releasing five regular studio albums, plus an EP and a couple of collections of covers.

She's lived in New York City since the '90s, and it's there she met Elliott Smith - playing the same shows and drinking in the same bars and clubs. She also toured with Elliott and even wrote a song about him, after seeing parallels between the reaction to his death and the death of her partner, the musician Jeff Buckley.

In this chat, we talk about that track, we talk about touring with Elliott, and we also cover her favourite song choice too. The interview is followed by a listener pick, which today comes from Stephen Johnson.

Extra things to look at / listen to:

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

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Kicking off our third season is the musician, Christian Lee Hutson.

Christian is a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. He's currently preparing to release his third album, which has been produced by his friend and collaborator (and former guest on this show) Phoebe Bridgers.

Keeping that kind of company, it's perhaps unsurprising that he is a big Elliott Smith fan. In this interview, we talk about how his dad introduced him to Elliott, why it was 'unfashionable' to like the album XO in school and, of course, his favourite song pick too.

Extra things to look at / listen to:

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

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To kick off the final episode of our second season, we speak to the musician Fenne Lily.

Fenne is based in Bristol in the UK and released her first album, On Hold, in 2018. She's currently preparing to release her second record and kindly took some time out to chat to us about her favourite Elliott Smith song, what she learns from Elliott's writing and why she didn't become a fully fledged fan until a little bit later on.

After we speak to Fenne, we delve into the podcast archives to pick out a couple of clips from our S1E6 interview with Ross Harris, who directed the video for Fenne's favourite song pick.

We round this all of with a special listener pick, which today come from Charlie Ramirez, the founder of Elliott Smith fansite, SweetAdeline.net. Charlie talks us through his favourite song pick, as well as a few stories from his time working on Sweet Adeline.

Thanks for your support of the podcast over the course of this season, it's hugely appreciated. We'll be back with a new series very soon.

Extra things to look at / listen to:

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

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Our guest for our final episode of 2019 is the musician Rob Grote.

Rob is the lead singer and guitarist in Philadelphia band, The Districts. He's also a massive Elliott Smith fan, and in this interview we talk about his selection for his favourite song, some of the Elliott lyrics he likes and why his music is really for any occasion.

Following the chat with Rob, our listener pick comes from James Jefferys from Aarhus, Denmark.

Hope you enjoy listening to this episode and see you again in 2020.

Extra things to look at / listen to:

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

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Our guest today is the musician Ellen Kempner.

Ellen leads the band Palehound, who released their third studio album, Black Friday, earlier this year. Ellen cites Elliott Smith has a major influence on that record, as well as on all of her previous work too. In this interview, we discuss how those influences come through in her music, how she was introduced to Elliott by a former guest on this show and we also talk through her favourite song pick too.

Following the interview with Ellen, we have a listener submission from Andrew Alarcon.

Hope you enjoy the episode.

Extra things to look at / listen to: 

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

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Our guest for episode 13 of our second series is the musician, James Alex.

James is best known for his work with the punk rock band, Beach Slang, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US. They've released two studio albums - as well as one under the name Quiet Slang - with another on the way in the early part of 2020.

James is, unsurprising, a massive Elliott Smith fan. In this interview, he talks about his at times academic approach to understanding Elliott's lyrics, as well as the impact his chosen song pick has had on his life.

Following the chat with James, we have a listener pick from Matt Tregortha from Birmingham in the UK.

Hope you enjoy it.

Extra things to look at / listen to:

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

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Our guest today is the musician Prateek Kuhad.

Prateek is a singer/songwriter currently based in New Delhi, India, though his life as a touring musician means he often finds himself further afield than that. He grew up in India as an aspiring musician but it wasn't until he moved to New York to go to university that he really got into Elliott Smith.

In our interview, he discusses when it all clicked for Elliott with him, the impact it's had on his career and, of course, he talks about his favourite song of his too.

Following our chat with Prateek, we have a listener pick from Valarie Smith from Portland, Oregon, USA.

Extra things to look at/listen to:

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

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Our guest today is the musician Sameer Gandhia.

Sameer is the lead singer of the band Young the Giant, a Los Angeles based group who've released four albums so far, including, most recently, Mirror Master, which came out about a year ago.

He is also a big Elliott Smith fan, and in this interview he talks about how he's finding new appreciation for Elliott as his own career progresses, how he became a fan of his music and Sameer also talks through his favourite song pick too.

We round off the episode with a listener choice, which comes from Sam Harris from Brighton in the UK.

Extra things to look at/listen to:

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

Find us on social media @myfavesmithsong.

MyFavouriteElliottSmithSong.com

Musician, writer and podcaster John Roderick is our guest for episode 10 of season two.

John was part of the music scene in Seattle during the '90s, while Elliott Smith was making a name for himself in nearby Portland. He saw Elliott play numerous times and admired the way he was able to carve his own sound, which was distinctive from a lot of other artists in the Pacific Northwest at the time.

In this interview, John discusses the song that really cemented that admiration for Elliott's music, what it was like watching him live and why he has what he calls a 'complicated' relationship with him.

To round this all off, our listener pick today comes from musician Tom Lee from Leeds in the UK.

Extra things to look at / listen to: 

 

My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. 

Find us on social media @myfavesmithsong.

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