1) Elwood J. Blues from The Blues Brothers
2) Former finnish demoscene musician, now known as Loommusic
3) The hip-hop project of Prince Elwood Strickland III
1) Edward "Dan" Aykroyd Daniel a.k.a. Elwood J. Blues, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
2) Demoscene Musican during the 90s and beginnings of 2000 up to 2003/2004. Today known as Loommusic - http://www.loommusic.net/ You can also find his old, scene tracks on
http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_profile&query=69004 and here
http://www.scene.ee/elwood/ (among many others).
3) Elwood is the eclectic hip-hop/pop project of singer/songwriter/producer Prince Elwood Strickland III and co-producer and songwriter Brian Boland. Born and raised in North Carolina, Strickland grew up listening to rap, soul, country, folk and pop and eventually became a recording engineer at Soho's Greene Street Recording Facility. During his decade-long stint there, he worked with artists like Tricky, Mos Def, De La Soul, the The and Adam Yauch and met Boland. The duo recorded a seven-song demo in Strickland's own studio led to a deal with the Palm Pictures imprint, and Elwood worked with acclaimed British producer Steve Lillywhite on tracks for their debut album The Parlance Of Our Times, which was co-released in early 2000 by Palm Pictures and Lillywhite's label Gobstopper.
From Wikipedia:Elwood is the musical project/collaboration of singer-songwriters Joseph Elwood and Alisdair Gillespie. Strickland (born in the U.S. state of North Carolina) 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 (July 8, 2000) at #33 on the Billboard Magazine Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Elwood's first album, The Parlance Of Our Time, was released May 16, 2000 and contains the following tracks: