Elwood (American musician)

Elwood
Born July 2, 1970
Origin U.S.
Genres Hip-hop
Rock
Pop
Labels Palm Pictures/Gobstopper
Past members Prince Elwood Strickland III
Brian Boland

Elwood is the musical project/collaboration of singer-songwriters Prince Elwood Strickland III and co-producer and songwriter Brian Boland. (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 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

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

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

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