Elliott Smith - The Steamboat, Austin, TX, 5-3-2003 | Albums That Should Exist

Elliott Smith - The Steamboat, Austin, TX, 5-3-2003

Paul says: I was listening to some Elliott Smith music yesterday, and I noticed that I'd never posted this concert from him. So I want to fix that ASAP, since it's an excellent concert. It's the best concert I've heard from 2003, the last year of his life. (He died on October 21, 2003, at the age of 34.) This is a solo acoustic concert.

What makes this concert recording stand out is the sound quality. It's an excellent soundboard bootleg. He was in good form, which wasn't always the case in 2003. He hadn't toured much since 2000, and he was playing a lot of new songs, some of which would end up on his 2004 album, "From a Basement on the Hill." It also ends with a nice cover of "Blackbird" by the Beatles. 

By the way, I've noticed there's a video of this entire concert on YouTube. This isn't sourced from that, though. The video quality isn't that good, but I thought I'd mention it for people who might want to watch it. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Happiness 
02 Memory Lane
03 Rose Parade 
04 Strung Out Again
05 talk 
06 Plainclothes Man 
07 I Figured You Out 
08 St. Ides Heaven
09 A Passing Feeling 
10 Division Day 
11 talk
12 Between the Bars 
13 Twilight 
14 I Better Be Quiet Now 
15 talk 
16 Pretty [Ugly Before] 
17 Waltz No. 2 [XO] 
18 Satellite 
19 talk
20 Coast to Coast
21 Say Yes
22 talk 
23 Blackbird 

Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 Live on Later... December 1998.

as Paul mentions there is a post of this set on YouTube but it isn’t a patch on the download he has kindly shared . . . . . still y’ere ’tis!