No Confidence Man

"Shytown"/"No Confidence Man"
Single by Elliott Smith and Pete Krebs
A-side Shytown
B-side No Confidence Man
Released 1994 (1994)
Format 7" vinyl
Recorded August 14, 1994
Genre Indie folk
Label Slo-Mo
Writer(s) Pete Krebs, Elliott Smith
Producer(s) Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith singles chronology
"No Confidence Man"/"Shytown"
(1994)		 "Needle in the Hay"
(1995)

"No Confidence Man" is a song by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. It was originally released in 1994 by record label Slo-Mo as the B-side to a split 7" vinyl single with Pete Krebs, with Krebs' track "Shytown" making the A-side, making it his first solo single.

Recording

"No Confidence Man" was recorded in one day, on August 14, 1994. Engineering was handled by Smith.[1]

Content

The lyrics refer to a character named "Charlie", who has been referenced in at least one other of Smith's songs, and is a possible reference to Smith's stepfather Charlie Welch.[2]

Release

The single was originally released in 1994 by record label Slo-Mo.

It was re-issued in digital format in 2014 by UseMusic.org,[3] with proceeds going to Outside/In, a not-for-profit Portland, Oregon organisation that works with homeless youth. The tracks were remixed by producer and Elliott Smith archivist Larry Crane: "I remixed these recently from excellent transfers of the original 1/4-inch, 8-track master tapes, so the audio is quite a bit better than old transfers pulled off vinyl".[2]

Track listing

Side A
  1. Pete Krebs – "Shytown"
Side B
  1. Elliott Smith – "No Confidence Man"

References

  1. ↑ Nugent, Benjamin (April 1, 2009). Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing. Da Capo Press. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Greenwald, David (January 27, 2014). "Lost Elliott Smith Single Unearthed for Charity | OregonLive.com". OregonLive.com. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Lannamann, Ned (January 29, 2014). "Mike Doughty Reworks Old Elliott Smith Tape, Causes Consternation | Blogtown, PDX | Portland Mercury". The Portland Mercury. Retrieved February 18, 2015.

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