lizish Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 oh fucking hell this is one great cd. Instead of the old drawings of the Ambassador bridge from their last album, they included a fake piano roll for Mountain Meadows. Unbelievable and it is now easily the best thing I've heard this year. Supposedly the whole thing is some concept album about Mormons massacring a wagon train in the 1870s: http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=163587 Music FeatureBrood out for bloodDeath country crew reveals the dark side of Mountain MeadowsTim PerlichELLIOTT BROOD CD release party with CASTLE MUSIC and the JOHN HENRY'S Friday, (June 20) and with the BEAUTIES and JEN CASTLE Saturday (June 21), at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West). $12.50 advance. 416-598-4753. myspace.com/elliott Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DrNo Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I read a book about the Mountain Meadows Massacre. I think it was called American Massacre or something to that effect. It's also mentioned a little in Under The Banner of Heaven. I'll definitely have to pick this up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blindgonzo Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 i haven't heard this album yet, but am anxiously awaiting there arrival in town this coming saturday. for some reason they really like playing here.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mjpuczko Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 this is fantastic! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMaker Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Wow, very cool news. I loved their first album and EP, and hadn't even heard of this one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TCP Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I've never heard of them but the fact that it's Canadian and apparently, rootsy, means I should check it out. Always trying to find more Canadiacana to play on my alt-country/folk-rock radio show where I have to play a certain amount of Canadian content due to "the man". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMaker Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Play some Elliott Brood and chase it with the first track from Twilight Hotel's Highway Prayer album! It really shouldn't be a chore to find great roots rock from this country. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
myboyblue Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Appreciate the tip...I'll add these guys to the list of bands to check out live. I really like what I have heard thus far. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMaker Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Man, this is really, really good. That is all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied lightning Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 this is one of the best records i've heard so far this year thanks T Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blindgonzo Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 instead of being at the EB show tonight, i am stuck at home, with a freakin' headache and cold. i'm sure they are rocking it out, right about now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lizish Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 wow, they made the cover of Exclaim this month. Great article that also explains the Lethbridge connection Elliott BroodBuilding a HistoryBy Vish Khanna On September 11, 1857, approximately 120 men, women, and children emigrating from Arkansas to California were slaughtered by an unlikely collective of Mormon militia members and local Native American tribesmen in a part of the Utah territory known as Mountain Meadows. A complex amalgam of political conflict and religious fervency set off the Mormon-led siege upon the Baker-Fancher emigrant party, who were forced into a standoff after camping in the valley during their westward voyage. Fending off their attackers for four days, the Baker-Fancher party surrendered in good faith with the promise of safe passage to nearby Cedar City. After being led a mile away from their wagon corral on foot, however, they were attacked by the Mormons and Natives and only 17 young children were spared, with some sent back home, and others adopted and raised in the Mormon faith. While historical accounts vary and nothing conclusive about the reasoning behind the bloodshed has been determined, this brutal moment in American history is still commemorated as the Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied lightning Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 bumplisten to this record people Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 This is a very good record, I'll agree (many thanks to the provider )It made my bus journey into work a lot more fun, that's for sure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big Perm Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 is this available domestically yet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 is this available domestically yet?No...you can order via here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lizish Posted July 3, 2008 Author Share Posted July 3, 2008 This is a very good record, I'll agree (many thanks to the provider )It made my bus journey into work a lot more fun, that's for sure. oh sorry rich, I'm slow on the uptake and should have sent it over. So thanks to whoever did. I expect TLOBF to go further into 'all Canadian' mode. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
myboyblue Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 thanks for the heads up on these guys Lizish. How do their other recordings compare to this? I haven't heard much about these guys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lizish Posted July 3, 2008 Author Share Posted July 3, 2008 thanks for the heads up on these guys Lizish. How do their other recordings compare to this? I haven't heard much about these guys. I really love both the previous release - Ambassador and the 1st EP - Tintype. There are some video samples here that sum everything up: http://www.elliottbrood.ca/Video.html When I first first heard them, I immediately thought of a satanist 16 horsepower, and the first two releases are kind of like that - less feedback, but still the same screetching voice over banjos and acoustic guitars. I still believe that Ambassador is about growing up in Windsor Ontario and the long history of rum-running across the Detroit River. Probably wrong though. Mountain Meadows is kinda like watching this good band get impossibly better. Live, they are amazing and I would hate to think of the kinds of foot pedals needed to pull off that sound. It actually reminded me of the one time I saw Husker Du - same kind of wall of feedback put out only by three people and amazingly they seem like they are living in this bizzaro world where Les Paul did not merge pickups and guitars. The don't seem to tour south of the border - which is kinda strange. Ie they just came back from Australia and it used to be that every weekend they were playing the Brampton to Lethbridge circuit - only stopping at Schuba's once last year. I bugged them about it too, but only got a shrug in response. I'm getting my ass to the Hillside festival in Guelph later this month. Both the Acorn and Elliott Brood are going to be in attendance - as sort of reunion of their tour together last fall. And the acorn wrote this on EB's Mypace page: ' sexy times at hillside!!!hold on to your knickers.xo. rk' I mean, how could I not go and witness the knicker holding sexy time? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
myboyblue Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Let 'em know that I would support another Schubas stop as well. Thanks for the information...I'll check out the earlier stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lizish Posted July 5, 2008 Author Share Posted July 5, 2008 So I bought Jon Krakauer's 'Under the Banner of Heaven' to try to understand the context of Mountain Meadows, and since I'm reading more non-fiction than fiction these days, it really fits in with the summer reading list. Hollee crap, I'm 5 chapters in and already 100 or so people have died violently in the first decade of the LDS. Between this book, that jack mormon Corb Lund, the Elliott Brood cd and becoming hooked on the first season of Big Love, I'm really tempted to become a wool undergarment wearing sister-wife. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big Perm Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 have you read any of his other stuff? I recommend it all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lizish Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 have you read any of his other stuff? I recommend it all I have not. Going to grab the Everest one before heading out on vacation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kalle Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 My band "Kalle Mattson" is opening up for Elliot Brood here in the Sault Sept. 12th! Excited excited! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blindgonzo Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 that's awesome man! congrats!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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