Chad Elliott released his 25th album, Singing River, on May 17, 2021. He traveled to Muscle Shoals, AL with famed Iowa musician and producer Bo Ramsey to lay the tracks. Singing River was recorded at FAME Recording Studios, where music legends Etta James, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and many others laid renowned songs into the fabric of time. Ramsey, who produced Singing River, lent his signature sound on guitar. He was joined by two original Muscle Shoals Swampers, Spooner Oldham and David Hood. The new Americana/roots/blues mix that arose in Singing River is exactly the sound Elliott was hoping to create. Learn more at www.chadelliott.net.

Singing River

Trials Of The Heart

The song "Little Birds" was written and recorded by Chad Elliott for the documentary, "West By Orphan Train."

Little Birds

"When Our Love Was New" is a song from Chad Elliott's RINGGOLD album.

Ringgold

When Our Love Was New

Highway Symhony is from Chad Elliott's RINGGOLD album.

Highway Symphony

"Wedding Band" is from Chad Elliott's RINGGOLD album.

Wedding Band

Rest Heavy

St. James Infirmary

Wreck and Ruin

Matters of the Broken Heart

Matters Of The Broken Heart

Homefire Blues

Walkin' Shoes Blues

Chad Elliott released "Swear I Could" on the album Wreck and Ruin. Learn more about Chad Elliott at www.chadelliott.net.

Swear I Could

Chad Elliott released "Great High Plains" on the album So Sang the Crow

So Sang the Crow

Great High Plains

Chad Elliott released "A Father's Blues" on the album RINGGOLD. To learn more about Chad Elliott, visit www.chadelliott.net.

RINGGOLD

A Fathers Blues

A Father's Blues

In November 2019 Chad Elliott released a new album, King Pelican. This album holds 8 tracks recorded live with his band, The Redemptions, during a set for The Sun Studio Sessions documentary series featured on PBS. The show is currently airing nationwide. The entire album delivers the goods. It is a colorful album including songs such as the title track, a fun New Orleans-style number about a ne'er-do-well character, and "Paris," which would make Humphrey Bogart shed a tear. King Pelican was released Nov. 3, 2019.

King Pelican

Paris

Chad Elliott’s 24th studio album, Tangle with the Ghost, is a rich
collection of Americana roots songs. It was recorded alongside
other Iowa artists at Old School Studios in Auburn, IA with
producer/artist Todd Partridge.

Tangle with the Ghost

Mystery Of Love

Cold, Nevada Rain

“In 1996, I was a young artist. I graduated college, got married and moved from Iowa to remote Northwest Montana. Finding work was difficult. To make ends meet, I took a job painting signs. When I wasn't holding a brush, I began teaching myself how to write songs and play guitar beside the clear, rolling rivers in the Rocky Mountain shadows. Thus began my lifelong endeavor to be a folksinger.” - Chad Elliott

Nearly 30 years have passed since those first songs sprang to life. Now, Midwest singer-songwriter Chad Elliott blends folk roots, swampy blues and soulful writing to deliver music that is unmistakably original. His live performances have been honed over 25 years on the road performing more than 200 shows each year. 

Elliott is lauded as “Iowa’s Renaissance man” by Culture Buzz Magazine.He has penned more than 2,000 songs in his career while also cultivating his skills as a painter, sculptor and illustrator at Elliott Art Studio in Jefferson, IA. Elliott is also an author (Wilderman’s Treetop Tales; Rumble & Flash).

“That man’s music is as honest as was Woody Guthrie’s.” - Atesh Sonneborn, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Elliott has worked with many of the best folk-blues songwriters and shared the stage with artists of the highest caliber, including Odetta, Tom Paxton, Loudon Wainwright III, R.L. Burnside, Greg Brown, Ruthie Foster, Verlon Thompson, Jimmie Vaughan, Bo Ramsey and Mary Gauthier.

Chad Elliott

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