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In 1997, Elliott Smith was pre-major label and pre-Oscar nomination, garnering acclaim in certain circles for his just-released either/or-- not a household name by any means, but on his way. It was against that backdrop that Smith made a stop at WMUC, the University of Maryland's campus station, for a 10-song session that went live to air and was recorded for posterity on MiniDisc. The recording subsequently went missing for over a decade-- until recently. What's most expected about the finding is the discovery of a long lost original that Smith used as a warm-up. It ends prematurely and abruptly, but what's there is gold.

Read about the tale of the lost recording and hear the never before heard "Misery Let Me Down" via The Washington Post. (UPDATE: alternate audio source here).