Acoustic singer-songwriters

Many singer-songwriters with acoustic guitar give you impression of poets. They make their own music with their own lyrics. Singer-songwriters often talks about issues that are really personal. For example, like personal relationship and personal problems. That’s why they are not afraid to express their honest emotions and thoughts. Elliott Smith is a great example of singer-songwriter and he plays very gentle tone of acoustic guitar. He often uses the method of double tracked vocal recording to create background sound that makes up chorus in the song. Also many singer-songwriters know how to play different kinds of instruments. The reason is that many singer-songwriters have to play and make music by themselves. “Son of Sam” starts with high tone piano intro along with electric guitar. I like bridge of the song, the way drums, guitar, and piano sounds all come together and create such a playful upbeats. You could also notice the double vocal works as a chorus. Another song I would like to talk about is “Angeles.” This could be typical Elliott Smith’s song using acoustic guitar with his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery“ voice. (wikipedia.org/elliott_smith) Personally I think that’s perfect description of Elliott’s voice. I honestly don’t get ever tired of listening to song like this because it has so much passion behind it. The lyrics are beautiful as well and I think lyrics being very personal with all the metaphor and imagery. This fact largely contributes to listeners to consider singer-songwriters as poets. Many fans usually fall in love with this kind of song because it’s very personal yet you could still relate to them and amaze by the artists who could come up with those lyrics that we could relate to. The perfect combination of beautiful voice, acoustic guitar, true emotions, and real life lyrics that everyone could relate to is Elliott Smith and as you can tell he has all the elements to become great singer-songwriter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggjfnX20nw “Son of Sam”-music video, Elliott Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAOxo8qH_AQ&feature=related “Angeles”-music video, Elliott Smith