My friend and yours, Dusty Brown, recently covered Elliott Smith’s "Can’t Make a Sound" for a tribute album and it turned out incredible, dare I say, better than the original. You be the judge, have a listen below.
Dusty Brown – Can’t Make a Sound (Elliott Smith Cover)
Available on the album Hope You’re Happy
Incidentally, the last two images above are of the wall in Los Angeles that was used by photographer Autumn de Wilde as the backdrop for the Figure 8 album cover. Since Smith’s death it has become a sort of memorial for fans.
As a huge Elliott Smith fan, I can’t say it trumps the original, but it is surely well done. The instrumentation and beat are especially well done, but I miss the raw sincerity of Elliott’s vocal, rather than the super polished vibrato laden vocal done here. But any Elliott Smith tribute is a treat to me.
I wonder why the designer left his right hand ‘pink’ in the top picture, gotta be intentional
Good eye Gareth. I do know that the original photo was in full color and they just removed the color from his image, but obviously they’ve left the hand in color. I think this color image is from the original shoot.
I like the new Dusty Brown sound…
It’s terrible that their gear was stolen though :(.
Thieves = the suck.
Scott, what’s the typo on your titles ? I see it everywhere and don’t even know what it is… :/
Kappu-
That’s Trade Gothic LH Extended Bold, great font, as is the entire Trade Gothic Family.
love this song, love this album, love dusty brown, love tycho
no more word needs to say
Amazing version. Good job. Did the female half of Dusty Brown perform live with you or were you just doing live samples of her voice?
That wall has had a lot of attention lately.
Love the look of your site, as well as its contents.
Man that way to polished and far to melodramatic instead of Smith lengendary meloncoly style. Voice is way to high pitched, kinda hurts.
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Interesting cover, but to even hint that it might approach, let alone trump, the original is a bit ludicrous and slightly insulting. Very little of Elliott’s range, subtlety, dynamic range or sincerity is in this version. Sorry, just the way I feel.
tolles concept und umsetzung!
weiter so,wa!?
check:
http://www.smad-dasek.de.tl