I knew that he took it seriously because through that before he finalized the running order for Either/Or as well. I think because it wasn’t just some recordings that got released, but more, “Here’s your opportunity to make an album,” so there was much more focus. When you think of the self-titled record, do you think of it as a statement of intent, or as an introduction of sorts, or was it just the fact that this was the first one that was intended to be an album? A bunch of stuff I worked on New Moon could have been on this album. I feel like is the beginning of the solo career, because here is a focused intent – and there were songs left off it. It was JJ Gonson’s initiative that got over to our friends at Cavity Search Records and got it released. Just doing it as his own test, as he always would, to get a song down and see what he thought.
He was recording on borrowed four-tracks and even a borrowed guitar on some of it. is his first record in my opinion, because his first album, Roman Candle, wasn’t recorded with the intent of, “This is going to be a release.” I know that those songs were just recorded because that was his nature – to record. Is the process of working on something like Either/Or different from working on the self-titled record? The self-titled record is the last of its kind on a certain level in that Either/Or was the first album to feature more traditional rock instrumentation. Strangely enough, the first copy I had was a CD that was left behind in the backroom of the studio. It’s very different in a way because I didn’t hear this record all the way through until I was building the studio with Elliott and became a friend. I’d also seen his old band Heatmiser perform and heard Roman Candle.Įven when we opened up Jackpot! Recording Studio together, which is still my studio in Portland, I had never really heard the self-titled album. I’d seen him around town and knew who he was. I didn’t know Elliott at the time and hadn’t recorded with him yet. When I started the self-titled album, I had no connection to that record in that respect. On that record, there was a track – “Pictures of Me” – which I recorded vocals for, and it was the first time Elliott and I spent time in the studio. What’s it like returning to these songs decades later?īefore this, I worked on the Either/Or reissue that I remastered a few years ago in 2017.
Listen to the new Elliott Smith reissue here. This interview has been condensed for length. Larry Crane – founder of Tape Op Magazine, owner of Jackpot! Recording Studio, and archivist for Elliott Smith’s estate, worked on the remaster for this release and brought Smith’s live show at Umbra Penumbra back into the light, giving us what Crane describes as “a fascinating view into Elliott’s mind and work.”Ĭrane talked with uDiscover Music about his archival process, his memories of collaborating with Smith, and what he hopes listeners take away from the new reissue.
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