--- description: Indie favorites team up for a tribute to the beloved auteur title: Wes Anderson Tribute - Juliana Hatfield Elliott Smith image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90c7be9eb0ed396a/69868de9cd804d507fccab26/e5f0dc21.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Listen to Juliana Hatfield Cover Elliott Smith for a Wes Anderson Tribute Compilation by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2014 5:28 PM CUT  by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2014 5:28 PM CUT Grab your berets, pull up your knee socks and pull out your portable record player. On May 13, American Laundromat Records will release _I Saved Latin: A Tribute to Wes Anderson,_ a 23-song, two-disk compilation of cover songs culled from Anderson’s various films. The compilation includes contributions from indie faves like Telekinesis, PHOX, Matt Pond, William Fitzsimmons and Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos, a band who took their name from an Anderson character. Singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield chose to cover Elliott Smith’s “Needle In the Hay,” a powerful song that was used to soundtrack a particularly poignant scene in Anderson’s 2001 film, _Royal Tenenbaums._ Hatfield’s cover of the song shows Smith’s continued influence on her sound — an influence she fully admits. “I have written three fan letters in my life,” Hatfield told [Paste](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2014/05/song-premiere-juliana-hatfield---needle-in-the-hay.html "undefined"). “One was to Paul Westerberg, one to the band X — both written when I was a teenager — and later, when I was in my twenties, I wrote to Elliott Smith at Kill Rock Stars. I was so in love with ‘Needle in the Hay’ and the rest of the self-titled album on which it appears that I was compelled to dork out and gush to Elliott that his music moved me.” On the track, Hatfield pays homage to the original song’s devastating intensity while making it uniquely her own. Listen below: _I Saved Latin_ is available for pre-order now via [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IJXJAIS "undefined"), [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-saved-latin%21-tribute-to/id830911264 "undefined"), or direct from [American Laundromat Records](http://www.alr-music.com/ "undefined"). \[via [Paste](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2014/05/song-premiere-juliana-hatfield---needle-in-the-hay.html "undefined")\] **MORE**: [Wes Anderson on The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nostalgia and Standing-Still Tennis](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/28/wes-anderson-grand-budapest-hotel/ "undefined") **MORE**: [If Wes Anderson Directed Forrest Gump, Here’s What You’d Get](http://time.com/76495/wes-anderson-forrest-gump/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/87930/juliana-hatfield-elliott-smith-needle-in-the-hay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/87930/juliana-hatfield-elliott-smith-needle-in-the-hay/"},"headline":"Listen to Juliana Hatfield Cover Elliott Smith for a Wes Anderson Tribute Compilation","datePublished":"2014-05-05T17:28:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T07:37:30.417Z","description":"Indie favorites team up for a tribute to the beloved auteur","url":"https://time.com/87930/juliana-hatfield-elliott-smith-needle-in-the-hay/","keywords":["movies","Music","Wes Anderson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90c7be9eb0ed396a/69868de9cd804d507fccab26/e5f0dc21.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90c7be9eb0ed396a/69868de9cd804d507fccab26/e5f0dc21.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"e5f0dc21","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/87930/juliana-hatfield-elliott-smith-needle-in-the-hay/","name":"Listen to Juliana Hatfield Cover Elliott Smith for a Wes Anderson Tribute Compilation"}}]}] ```