News spread over the weekend that Jane Birkin has passed away at the age of 76. Few people have had more of an enduring impact on my sensitivities than Birkin, and her daughters–Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon–are a constant source of kindred inspiration to me. I won’t even get into how she reminds me of my mother, which is a long way of saying…this one hits home.
Tag: RIP
Cover Lover: Avett / Mayfield Tackle Elliott Smith
While doing other things, I stumbled across this promotional video for a forthcoming album of Elliott Smith covers produced by Seth Avett which features himself alongside Jessica Lea Mayfield. Elliott Smith was a formidable part of my adolescence, a role he seems to have played for many devotees of a certain genre. Avett and Mayfield are also attached to the man who left us far too soon, and here the pair discuss the wherefores and the whys behind this album, set for release in March on Ramseur Records.
While I’m always excited to see a new take on Elliott Smith, I fumble on the wonder of the what ifs–what if he’d only known how special we all thought he was? But, then again, it wasn’t the outside world that was the problem; it was the world that was within him.
Nostos Algos 