In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. This concert from Septemat Portland, Oregon's Umbra Penumbra features ten songs including "Alphabet Town" which would appear on Elliott Smith. Gonson as well as Smith's handwritten lyrics, memories from his friends and collaborators, and a bonus disc presenting the earliest known recording of Smith as a solo artist. Kill Rock Stars' reissue of Elliott Smith includes the newly remastered album a coffee table book containing never-before-published photographs of the artist by J.J. The 2000 DreamWorks release Figure 8 would be Smith's final album released in his lifetime. Smith's DreamWorks debut, XO, appeared on the heels of his Academy Award-nominated success "Miss Misery" as featured in director Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting. Smith went on to record one more album for Kill Rock Stars (1997's Either/Or, which was also expanded a few years ago) before being snapped up by the fledgling major label DreamWorks. Smith had performed "Christian Brothers" with his band Heatmiser their full-band rock arrangement appeared on the soundtrack of the 2014 documentary about Smith, Heaven Adores You. Another track off the album, "Clementine," was inspired by the traditional folk ballad "Oh My Darling, Clementine" (perhaps best known as Huckleberry Hound's unofficial theme song). The LP's lone single "Needle in the Hay" would later be used in Wes Anderson's film The Royal Tenenbaums it's since been covered by artists from drone metal duo Nadja to pop singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton.
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Darkness pervaded the album, from the cover depicting people jumping out of windows to the drug-influenced lyrical content. On August 28, the Kill Rock Stars label will reissue his 1995 self-titled sophomore album in a 2-CD deluxe edition to commemorate its 25th anniversary.Įlliott Smith continued in the acoustic singer-songwriter vein of its predecessor, Roman Candle, with the solo artist's guitar backed up only by an occasional other instrument such as harmonica or drums. Seventeen years after Elliott Smith's tragic death at the age of 34, his spare, haunting music continues to resonate.