My Favourite Elliott Smith Song S4 Ep3: Ed Harcourt
Jul 15, 2021
23:52
Our guest today is the musician Ed Harcourt.
Ed has released six studio albums - one of which was nominated for the mercury music prize - and has written songs for lots of other artists too, including the likes of Marianne Faithful, Paloma Faith and Sophie Ellis Bextor.
Ed has released six studio albums - one of which was nominated for the mercury music prize - and has written songs for lots of other artists too, including the likes of Marianne Faithful, Paloma Faith and Sophie Ellis Bextor.
Ed also counts himself as a big Elliott Smith fan. And in this episode, he talks to Elizabeth Withstandley about his favourite song pick, Elliott Smith’s enduring influence on songwriters and we talk about an Elliott cover he did as well.
Extra things to look at / listen to:
Extra things to look at / listen to:
- Ballad of Big Nothing by Elliott Smith: https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/track/ballad-of-big-nothing-2
- Either/Or by Elliott Smith: https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/either-or
- Ed Harcourt: https://edharcourtmusic.com
My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley.
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