| Shytown"/"No Confidence Man | |
| Cover: | Shytown-No Confidence Man cover.jpeg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Elliott Smith and Pete Krebs |
| A-Side: | Shytown |
| B-Side: | No Confidence Man |
| Recorded: | August 14, 1994 |
| Label: | Slo-Mo |
| Producer: | Elliott Smith |
| Chronology: | Elliott Smith |
| No Confidence Man | |
| Title2: | Shytown |
| Next Title: | Needle in the Hay |
| Next Year: | 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-inch vinyl single with Pete Krebs, with Krebs' track "Shytown" making the A-side, making it his first solo single.
"No Confidence Man" was recorded in one day, on August 14, 1994. Engineering was handled by Smith.[1]
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] 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]
The single was originally released in 1994 by record label Slo-Mo.
It was re-issued in digital format in 2014 by UseMusic.org,[2]
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