May 7, 2006 10:00

PJ Harvey, Elliott Smith set for new compilation

The latest Rough Trade collection rounds up singer-songwriters

Photo Gallery: PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey, Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith are among the stars appearing on the latest Rough Trade Shops compilation.

Released on July 3, ‘Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 01’ is the latest in the London shop's series of collections. The 38-track double CD was chosen by the Rough Trade staff.

The tracklisting is as follows:

CD1:
1. Micah P. Hinson – ‘Beneath The Rose’
2. Bright Eyes – ‘The Calendar Hung Itself’
3. Plush – ‘I've Changed My Number’
4. Franklin Bruno – ‘The Irony Engine’
5. Adrian Crowley – ‘The Girl From The Estuary’
6. Cat Power – ‘Metal Heart’
7. James William Hindle – ‘Come Down Slowly’
8. Mark Eitzel – ‘Take Courage’
9. Tracey Thorn – ‘Plain Sailing’
10. The Bevis Frond – ‘Waving’
11. Richard Thompson – ‘Vincent Black Lightning 1952’
12. PJ Harvey – ‘Dress (demo)’
13. Elvis Costello – ‘I Want You’
14. Tom Waits – ‘Little Boy Blue’
15. Barbara Manning – ‘Scissors’
16. Elliott Smith – ‘Needle In The Hay’
17. Simon Joyner – ‘Alabaster’
18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere’
19. James Yorkston – ‘Someplace Simple’
20. Julie Doiron – ‘When The Snow Falls This November’

CD2:
1. Victoria Williams – ‘Summer Of Drugs’
2. Richard Hawley – ‘Hotel Room’
3. Diane Cluck – ‘Easy To Be Around’
4. Vic Chesnutt – ‘Danny Carlisle’
5. Mark Mulcahy – ‘The Way That She Really Is’
6. Matthew Hattie Hein – ‘Number One’
7. Jane Weaver – ‘Is Everybody Happy?’
8. Lou Barlow & His Sentridoh – ‘Forever Instant’
9. Robert Wyatt – ‘Blues In Bob Minor’
10. Jeffrey Lewis – ‘Don't Let The Record Label Take You Out To Lunch’
11. Kristin Hersh – ‘Sundrops’
12. King Creosote – ‘Just After 11 She Left’
13. Charlie Parr – ‘To A Scrapyard Bustop’
14. Mary Margaret O'Hara – ‘Dear Darling’
15. Antony and The Johnsons – ‘Cripple and The Starfish’
16. The Mountain Goats – ‘Masher’
17. Nick Lowe – ‘Endless Sleep’
18. Daniel Johnston – ‘Speeding Motorcycle’

Previous collections in the series have included releases devotes to counter culture, electronica, post-punk, country and indie.