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Track Listings
| 1. Fingers And Tongues |
| 2. T-Bill |
| 3. W.I.A.D.F.Y. |
| 4. Without Again |
| 5. Garden River |
| 6. The Valley Town |
| 7. Notes |
| 8. Woodward Avenue |
| 9. 31 Years |
| 10. The Spring Floods |
| 11. Chuckwagon |
| 12. The Body |
| 13. Miss You Now |
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Album Description
Elliott BROOD are an explosive live trio out of Toronto Ontario Canada. The band tours regularly throughout the western world and have appeared live with Wilco, Calexico, Blue Rodeo, the Sadies, Sam Roberts, the Black Crowes, Soul Asylum. The release of their latest record, "Mountain Meadows" marks the evolution of Elliott BROOD's mystique, from a curious backwoods figure to a timeless rogue character. Driving acoustic guitars, ukulele, banjo, piano and their patented stomps combine here to take you on the journey. "Mountain Meadows" is loosely based on real and fictional stories from a roadside wagon train ambush and massacre (of the same name) in Utah in the 1850's.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Upbeat folk- and country-tinged rock tells a very dark tale, Oct 13 2009
By hyperbolium - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mountain Meadows (Audio CD)
The pastoral title of Elliott Brood's second album (originally release in Canada in 2008) is a head-fake, as is the upbeat tone of the folk- and country-tinged rock. The songwriting themes were inspired from the dark story of an 1857 massacre in which 120 men, women and children were slaughtered as they emigrated across Utah towards California. Songwriters Mark Sasso and Casey Laforet ponder not the deaths, but the lives of those who witnessed and survived the massacre, and rather gruesomely, the children who were adopted by the very Mormons who'd led the assault. Like their countrymen, The Sadies, Elliott Brood's music is impossible to pin down to a single genre. In volume they're a rock band, but in tone they augment their wall-of-sound guitars with nineteenth century elements of banjo and ukulele, and martial rhythms.The trio creates music that's often sparse, but still attacks with its dynamics. Hard-strummed acoustics, crashing cymbals and drum accents punctuate Mark Sasso's impassioned, accusing vocals. Even when the music breaks down to ukulele and scavenged percussion, the background vocal exclamations continue to taunt. Sasso's high, raspy voice will remind you of both Perry Farrell and Shannon Hoon, as he gives voice to travelers unsure they'll survive the travails of the journey, angsty emigrants led uneasily away from their wagons, murderers haunted by misdeeds, and faint memories of the children left behind. Rather than a literal retelling of the massacre, the album is written as impressionistic fiction grown from the historical premise. This is a musically satisfying album, though you may wish the lyrics more transparently imagined the story from which their inspiration was drawn. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Elliott Brood-Mountain Meadows, Sep 10 2008
By Sneedle "Sneedle" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mountain Meadows (Audio CD)
This is a great upbeat CD. It is listed as country, but I don't think it is, there is a little twang to the music, but it is more indie.Fun! They're coming to Seattle in a couple weeks and it should be a great live show.
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