Nashville Band Elliot Root Premieres 'Wicked Lies' Tour with Rainbow Kitten Surprise
By: Caryn Robbins Jul. 10, 2017
In anticipation of Conjure, the debut full-length record from up and coming Nashville band Elliot Root (out August 25 on E.R. Recordings/Thirty Tigers), the group is premiering the album track "Wicked Lies." The song is featured on Spotify's New Music Friday playlist, stream/share the track at
Additionally, this fall Elliot Root will embark on a U.S. tour with Rainbow Kitten Surprise, kicking off on October 1 in Memphis; see below for a list of confirmed dates.
Most recently, mxdwn premiered the video for the track "10,000," hailing the clip as "haunting" and praising frontman Scott Krueger's "soulful" vocals. The first track released off of Conjure, "10,000" was featured on Spotify's New Music Friday playlist upon release, where it quickly received over 400,000 listens. Watch the video athttp://bit.ly/2sitkUA and share it at http://vevo.ly/35Qr9L.
Co-produced by the band's own Melissa Mattey and Krueger alongside Tony High at Nashville's Blackbird Studios and Width Music, Conjure follows the group's Thoughts From Yesterday and II EPs. Elliot Root features Krueger (vocals, guitars), Mattey (keyboards, drum programming), Sean Truskowski (drums) and Todd Bond (guitars).
Writing and recording the album over the course of a year, the band worked out their material at Mattey and High's own Width Music Studio before moving to Blackbird Studios to lay down the tracks. "We would usually start the days off with an idea or two and spend the rest of the day experimenting and letting each idea unfold," explains frontman Krueger. "I don't think we had any sort of preconceived notion as to what we wanted things to sound like, our main goal was to really just get out of our own way and do whatever felt natural at the moment. Eventually we could see a common thread start to run through everything we were writing."
Krueger goes on to note, "Our writers, producers, engineers and mixing engineer are members of the band or live sound team, so the collaboration on the record was really closely knit with almost no outside influence. With the exception of mastering the entire record was created internally."
Releasing their first two EPs in 2015, Elliot Root has quickly gained attention in their hometown of Nashville with the track "Punks and Poets" topping Spotify's "Sounds of Nashville" Top 100 chart and reaching Spotify's U.S. Viral 50 Chart. No Country For New Nashville called the band "loud [and] full of energy...wonderfully electrifying." The band has performed alongside X Ambassadors, Lord Huron, the Zac Brown Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead and more.
CONJURE TRACK LIST
1. Suddenly Everything
2. Conjure
3. Take Your Money
4. Lost Man Running
5. Wicked Lies
6. 10,000
7. End Of Our Faults
8. Barcode
9. Hold On
10. Like The Sun
11. Stay
12. Dissipate
13. Tomorrow
ELLIOT ROOT LIVE
* with Rainbow Kitten Surprise
* with Rainbow Kitten Surprise
| July 15 |
Chattanooga, TN
|
Riverfront Nights
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| August 1 |
New York, NY
|
Mercury Lounge
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| August 2 |
Baltimore, MD
|
Metro Gallery
|
| August 11 |
Boulder, CO
|
Non-Comm Radio Summit
|
| August 25 |
Clinton, MS
|
Red Brick Roads Street Festival
|
| September 2 |
Nashville, TN
|
Live on the Green
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| September 16 |
Bristol, TN
|
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Festival
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| September 29 |
Aspen, CO
|
Wheeler Opera House
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| October 1 |
Memphis, TN
|
1884 Lounge*
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| October 2 |
Jackson, MS
|
Duling Hall*
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| October 4 |
Baton Rouge, LA
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Varsity Theatre*
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| October 5 |
New Orleans, LA
|
Tipitina's Uptown*
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| October 10 |
Tulsa, OK
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The Vanguard*
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| October 11 |
Lawrence, KS
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Granada Theatre*
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| October 12 |
Columbia, MO
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Blue Note*
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| October 17 |
Pensacola, FL
|
Vinyl Music Hall*
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| October 19 |
Tuscaloosa, AL
|
Druid City Music Hall*
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| October 20 |
Knoxville, TN
|
The Concourse at the International*
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