Elwood (American musician)

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Elwood
Born July 2, 1970
Origin Flag of the United States U.S.
Genre(s) Hip-hop
Rock
Pop
Label(s) Palm Pictures/Gobstopper
Former 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.[1]

Elwood's cover of Gordon Lightfoot's song Sundown peaked (July 8, 2000) at #33 on the Billboard Magazine Modern Rock Tracks chart.[2]

Elwood's first and only album, The Parlance Of Our Time, was released May 16, 2000[3] and contains the following tracks:[4]

  1. "Sundown" - 3:59 (a cover of the song of the same name by Gordon Lightfoot)[5]
  2. "Slow" - 4:26
  3. "Red Wagon" - 4:12
  4. "Picture of You" - 4:48
  5. "Forty Five" - 4:31
  6. "Bush" - 2:45
  7. "Peaches" - 3:42
  8. "Dive" - 4:44
  9. "Love Hook" - 4:35
  10. "Stockboy" - 3:46

[edit] References

  1. ^ Elwood - Full Biography. MTV. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
  2. ^ Billboard (selected) Artist Chart History for Elwood
  3. ^ Steven Lichtenstein. The Parlance of Our Time. PopMatters. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
  4. ^ Elwood - The Parlance of Our Time. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
  5. ^ Elwood : The Parlance of Our Time. Artistdirect. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.

[edit] External links

Official Elwood Site

Elwood Myspace