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Pretty Barfly: Elliott Smith

Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 May 1999

ELLIOTT SMITH is a philosopher, a jocular barroom buddy, but he's also a loner, the Bukowski-esque malcontent with a great American sadness etched into his gnarled visage. Truly, he is of the grand tradition...

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