Elliot Brood
Country
Genre: Canadiana
Release: Now
Sound: Maple syrup-soaked roots
If you like: Skydiggers, Sadies, Blue Rodeo
Best track: Out Of Time
Rating: NNNN (out of 5)
Why you should listen: Twenty years in this once Windsor-based trio – there is no Elliott – deliver haunting, heartfelt roots music that always sounds fresh while rooted in a traditional sound. The aptly named Country has plenty of twang on the tracks, on guitar and vocals, sometimes flirting with bluegrass but ultimately the lonely highways here lead north and not across Route 66. The poetry in these songs are the windswept words that catch on tree branches and fence posts while being blown along wide open Canadian spaces. There’s a great cover of the Rolling Stones’ Out of Time too. –MH
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