Elliott Smith
Portland songwriter whose hushed, double-tracked vocals and intricate fingerpicking carried bleak lyrics over Beatles-sweet melodies. 'Miss Misery' reached the Oscars.
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About Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith, born Steven Paul Smith in Omaha in 1969, grew up partly in Texas before settling in Portland, where he played in the rock band Heatmiser. His first solo records, Roman Candle (1994), Elliott Smith (1995) and Either/Or (1997), were quiet, home-recorded affairs for small independent labels, mostly just voice and acoustic guitar.
After the attention that followed his songs in Good Will Hunting, he signed to DreamWorks and made XO (1998) and Figure 8 (2000), which framed the same melancholy songwriting with piano, strings and full-band arrangements. He died in Los Angeles in 2003. The album he had been working on was completed by others and released in 2004 as From a Basement on the Hill.
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Elliott Smith's first album was Roman Candle (1994). The latest is From a Basement on the Hill (2004).