Elwood

ELWOOD is North Carolina-born Prince Elwood Strickland III, third in a long line of southern gentlemen so named, starting with his grandfather, whose wartime buddies originally tagged him with the ELWOOD moniker. The Parlance Of Our Time, ELWOOD’s Palm debut album, has a very lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer feel to it, an idyllic stew of edgy prog-rap, lushly melodic pop, smoky jazz, sinewy funk, loose-limbed country-blues and confessional folk that is the product of Prince and co-producer/co-writer Brian Boland. Think Everlast and the roots-oriented Beck crossed with the Beastie Boys of Paul’s Boutique, Steely Dan and British groups like the Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Propellerheads and A3.