Elwood is the musical project/collaboration of singer-songwriter Prince Elwood Strickland III (born in North Carolina) and co-producer and songwriter Brian Boland. Strickland worked as a recording engineer at Soho's Greene Street Recording facility where he and Boland met, working with artists such as Tricky, Mos Def, De La Soul, and Adam Yauch. Elwood worked with producer Steve Lillywhite on their debut album The Parlance of Our Time, which was co-released on Palm Pictures and Lillywhite's label, Gobstopper.
Elwood's cover of Gordon Lightfoot's song "Sundown" peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart on July 8, 2000.
Elwood's first album, The Parlance of Our Time, was released May 16, 2000 and contains the following tracks:
- "Sundown" – 3:59 (a cover of the song of the same name by Gordon Lightfoot)
- "Slow" – 4:26
- "Red Wagon" – 4:12
- "Picture of You" – 4:48
- "Forty Five" – 4:31
- "Bush" – 2:45
- "Peaches" – 3:42
- "Dive" – 4:44
- "Love Hook" – 4:35
- "Stockboy" – 3:46
Elwood's second record was released independently in 2005. Although not a lot is known about this record, it can be heard on Elwood's website, Elwoodmusic.org.