Elwood (American musician)

Elwood (American musician)

Infobox musical artist
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-songwriters Prince Elwood Strickland III and Brian Boland. Strickland (born in the U.S. state of North Carolina) worked as a recording engineer at Soho's Greene Street Recording Facility where he and Boland met, working with artists such as Tricky, Mos Def, De La Soul, and Adam Yauch. Elwood worked with producer Steve Lillywhite on their debut album "The Parlance Of Our Time", which was co-released on Palm 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" - 3:46

Elwood'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

References

External links

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* [http://www.elwoodmusic.org Official Elwood Site]
*myspace|elwoodband|Elwood


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