{"id":11699,"date":"2012-08-03T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2012-08-03T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:36:12","slug":"in-honor-of-elliott-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-08\/in-honor-of-elliott-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of Elliott Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11700\" title=\"ES2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ES2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ES2.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ES2-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ES2-450x305.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elliott Smith<\/strong>, one of our greatest songwriters, was born on <strong>August 6th<\/strong>, 1969.\u00a0 In early honor of Smith&#8217;s birthday, <strong>KillRockStars<\/strong> has just released the alternate take below of Smith&#8217;s stellar song, <em><strong>Alameda<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Amongst our fondest memories are his shows at the old Yucatan in Santa Barbara and at the Pantages.\u00a0 Elliott, you are sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.killrockstars.com\/\"><strong>KillRockStars<\/strong><\/a> adds this about the alternate take and Smith:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This version contains alternate lyrics during the chorus. Kill Rock Stars will also reissue Either\/Or and Smith&#8217;s self-titled 1995 album on 180-gram vinyl this month, in honor of Smith&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>On August 6, Kill Rock Stars will sell its 2010 Smith compilation An Introduction to&#8230; for $4.99 all day. You&#8217;ll also receive &#8220;a present&#8221; from the label if you sign up for their mailing list that day.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout August, Smith&#8217;s entire Kill Rock Stars output will be available digitally for $49. And for the duration of 2012, any Kill Rock Stars mail-order purchase will be accompanied by a 10% off coupon for their Smith offerings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you lack any portion of Smith&#8217;s definitive discography, this is a good opportunity to catch up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elliott Smith   Alameda Alternate\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uugha67F1jM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliott Smith, one of our greatest songwriters, was born on August 6th, 1969.\u00a0 In early honor of Smith&#8217;s birthday, KillRockStars has just released the alternate take below of Smith&#8217;s stellar song, Alameda.\u00a0 Amongst our fondest memories are his shows at the old Yucatan in Santa Barbara and at the Pantages.\u00a0 Elliott, you are sorely missed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}