There are so many people who have covered Elliott Smith, but usually they cover the older songs, from the self-titled album, or Either/Or’, or even ‘XO’, but rarely from the more recent stuff, and almost never from ‘Figure 8’.
Helen, who wrote about Mr. Spoon last November, sent me this link of Joel Amen Heslop, a guitarist of the band, covering ‘Son of Sam’. In the middle of his kitchen, he seems to gently rush through the song, as he plays it faster than the original, but with passion in a sort of wild style. I don’t play any instruments but I have read so many times about Elliott Smith’s songs being quite difficult and challenging to play.
The official version of ‘Son of Sam’ has a lot of piano, but there are many live recordings of Elliott playing the song on acoustic guitar during concerts, and he played it delicately and softly,… quite a contrast with Joel‘s fierce version.
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