My Favourite Elliott Smith Song S1 Ep27: Jim Fairchild
The musician Jim Fairchild joins us for our final episode of series one.
Jim plays guitar in Grandaddy - alongside our former guest Jason Lytle - and Modest Mouse, and he also works as a solo artist too.
It was when he was with Grandaddy that Jim first got to know Elliott Smith properly. The band joined Elliott on tour following the release of Figure 8 and they built up a friendship after that. Jim would even arrange for Elliott to come onstage to sing at the occasional Grandaddy live show and would visit him at New Monkey studio when he was trying to fix old equipment.
In this episode, Jim shares some great Elliott stories, as well as going in-depth on his favourite song pick.
Hope you enjoy this one. We'll be back with a new series in a few months - in the meantime, please do share the podcast with anyone you think might be interested.
Extra things to look at / listen to:
- Happiness by Elliott Smith on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3aU2ui8JQOtmgHYH0g1qFL?si=BG4sNlz6S6yIHcYC9KAfGA
- Figure 8 by Elliott Smith on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7DC0pE943VR5tAKIvQXHts?si=k7gT_SU3Q6ioiKzwEqWT0g
- He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot by Grandaddy on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6v7xLYNIdtJkyCGsenzQxh?si=eNa3DE0wTE2z5yL8y15wiw
- Recording of Elliott playing He's Simple... with Grandaddy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jZ0_YUXO-I
My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley.