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Song of the day for October 22, 2024

SPECIAL PRICE. American singer/songwriter Elliot Smith

Needle In The Hay by Elliot Smith is today’s featured song.

On this day in 2003, 34-year-old singer-songwriter Elliott Smith was found dead in his home. Revered as a pioneer of indie rock and folk rock, the Omaha-born artist was raised in Texas, and lived much of his adult life in Portland, Oregon, where he first built a following. Soon, Smith had garnered critical acclaim for his candid lyricism and his distinctive vocals. Among his best-known work was 2000’s Figure 8, which broke the top 100 of the Billboard albums chart, as well as his compositions for the Good Will Hunting soundtrack in 1997, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was produced and released posthumously in 2004.

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