Eli Young Band - Strange Hours - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2022 . Musical band of brothers, Eli Young Band, play their own instruments, write their own songs and cling fast to their Texas roots. The trailblazing group has come a long way since their formation in 2000 at the University of North Texas, with the multi-Platinum hitmakers' dynamic career producing multiple chart-topping and platinum singles. Love Talking marks the band's sixth studio album.

The universe feels real on The Turnpike Troubadours because the band resolved to let the album happen on it's own time. Moving out to the Prairie Sun recording complex in the desert country of Cotati, California, setting up in former chicken coops converted into studios, they metaphorically unplugged the clock and worked studiously through 12-hour sessions, wrapping up only when each story and every note rang true. There's Inch7 OaksInch, recounting a life made desperate by poverty, made more vivid by an incongruous hoedown accompaniment. InchBossier City,Inch focused on a sad mill worker who blows his pay regularly on gambling and booze.

It's 2017 in the southwestern corner of America. There's snow in the distant mountains and the slow desert sunset creeps through the windshield of the Mercury on 40 West. The young man is driving home, wherever that is. Every year Elijah Ocean crisscrosses the country singing his songs and making memories. With three full-length LPs under his belt and a fourth in the chamber, Ocean is just hitting his stride. Following 2014's folky Bring It All In and a cross-country move to Los Angeles, the singer-songwriter is set to a self-titled full-length country-rock album.