- Elwood (American musician)
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Name = Elwood
Img_capt = "Parlance of Our Time" cover, 2000
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Born = July 2, 1970
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Origin = flagicon|USA U.S.
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Genre =Hip-hop
Rock
Pop
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Label =Palm Pictures /Gobstopper
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Past_members = Prince Elwood Strickland III
Brian Boland'Elwood' is the musical project/collaboration of
singer-songwriter s Prince Elwood Strickland III and Brian Boland. Strickland (born in theU.S. state ofNorth Carolina ) worked as a recording engineer at Soho's Greene Street Recording Facility where he and Boland met, working with artists such asTricky ,Mos Def ,De La Soul , andAdam Yauch . Elwood worked with producerSteve Lillywhite on their debut album "The Parlance Of Our Time", which was co-released onPalm Pictures and Lillywhite's label, Gobstopper. [cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/elwood/artist.jhtml |title=Elwood - Full Biography |publisher=MTV |accessdate=2007-08-18]Elwood's cover of
Gordon Lightfoot 's song Sundown peaked (July 8 ,2000 ) at #33 on the Billboard Magazine "Modern Rock Tracks" chart. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=397671&model.vnuAlbumId=425705 Billboard (selected) Artist Chart History for Elwood] ]Elwood's first album, "The Parlance Of Our Time", was released
May 16 ,2000 [cite web |url=http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/e/elwood-parlance.shtml |title=The Parlance of Our Time |author=Steven Lichtenstein |publisher=PopMatters |accessdate=2007-08-18] and contains the following tracks: [cite web |url=http://www.amazon.com/parlance-our-time-Elwood/dp/B00004TCHV |title=Elwood - The Parlance of Our Time |publisher=Amazon.com |accessdate=2007-08-18]#"Sundown" - 3:59 (a cover of the song of the same name by
Gordon Lightfoot ) [cite web |url=http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1006244,00.html |title=Elwood : The Parlance of Our Time |publisher=Artistdirect |accessdate=2007-08-18]
#"Slow" - 4:26
#"Red Wagon" - 4:12
#"Picture of You" - 4:48
#"Forty Five" - 4:31
#"Bush" - 2:45
#"Peaches" - 3:42
#"Dive" - 4:44
#"Love Hook" - 4:35
#"Stockboy" - 3:46Elwood's second record was released independently in 2005. Although not a lot is known about this record, it can be heard at Elwood's website. http://elwoodmusic.org
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* [http://www.elwoodmusic.org Official Elwood Site]
*myspace|elwoodband|Elwood
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