The Wild North is that feeling you get when listening to your dad’s record collection for the first time and realizing that singular magic those words, sounds and stories create. Maybe that’s why some call them "dad rock", a title they are not ashamed of, for their influences are not hidden or hard to hear. Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young, Tom Petty and the Band are obvious in the Wild North’s tones and song stylings. In a world overwrought with new technology, these boys ARE trying to reinvent the wheel, bringing back the five piece band with old wooden guitars and tube amps. 
Erik Nelson, John Sponarski, Matt Kelly, and Leon Power make up the official line up of the Wild North. These musicians collectively make up some of Canada’s greatest roots and rock bands. They are members of The Deep Dark Woods, City and Color, Ben Rogers, Bob Sumner, Frazey Ford, and Rich Hope. These dudes are the elite of Vancouver’s roots, country, and rock players and when they come together with Way as the Wild North it would be no stretch to call them a ‘Supergroup’   
The Wild North began their epic quest for freedom in 2013 and have played all over Vancouver at all the best venues. They’ve opened for big bands and they throw kick ass parties. In the five years they've been a band they’ve done a hell of a lot without ever having a record but that’s all about to change. The first full-length Wild North record "Welcome to…The Wild North" is set to be released Fall 2019.   ‘Welcome to…The Wild North’, the much anticipated, triumphant debut has been a long time in the making. Over the course of the last five years the band had amassed a collection of demos that could have passed for a debut, but the boys felt they could do better. Working with Erik P.H. Nielsen of Afterlife Studios and enlisting the help of tone wizard and vibe master, Andy Bishop of White Ash Falls and Twin River, as well as legendary engineer Colin Stewart of ‘The Hive’, the band was able to take these songs to the next level, making the record they always dreamt of. Fall of 2019 the world will finally get the chance to hear this long overdue timeless classic. Maybe someday your child will dust off his dad’s collection and find the gem that is ‘Welcome to…The Wild North’.

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All I Know’ is a confessional, a fearless introduction to Elliot C Way and his journey through love and  life's strange and wicked ways. After fifteen years of writing, living hard, playing hard and trying to find his place in the world. The road has been long and rough along the way but that road has led to this moment in Way’s life, to this very personal collection of songs. 

All Songs written by Elliot C. Way 
Side A recorded at Old Man Mountain, Langley B.C. Canada 
Side B recorded at Hoj Loj 
Recorded and Produced by Erik P.H. Nielsen 
Mixed by Erik P.H. Nielsen and John Raham 
Mastered by Graemme Brown Zen Mastering 
Photography by Victoria Black & Mandy Lynn 
Art design by Erik Grice 

Vocals / Acoustic Guitar - Elliot C. Way 
Backup Vocals - Kendel Carson 
Fiddle - Kendel Carson 
Acoustic & Electric Guitars - John Sponarski 
Bass Guitar - Erik P.H. Nielsen 
Piano / Organ / Pedal Steel Guitar - Matt Kelly 
Organ - Geoff Hillhorst  
Drums - Leon Power  

In 2016 After a short lived stint in Austin Texas, and a longer stint in a Van back in Vancouver, Elliot found himself back in his home town of Fort Langley, BC. In a small old farm house he dubbed ‘Old Man Mountain’. Replete with a wood burning stove, a porch, and a stunning view of the valley, Elliot made the little shack home for a few bliss filled years. Eventually life took some turns as it always dones in Way's story and he decided to move back to the big city. But before leaving, he knew that ‘Old Man Mountain’ would be the perfect setting and backdrop,so he turned his little country home into a makeshift studio.
 	Inspired by the home studio recording techniques of Springsteen's ‘Nebraska’, Neil Young’s ‘Harvest’ and Link Wray’s self- titled album, Elliot set out to record these very personal songs. Enlisting the help of good friend, bass player and producer, Erik P.H. Nielsen as well as fellow songsmith Bob Sumner, the three friends cleared out the bedroom, moved some couches around and dusted off a few cobwebs. They spent a week recording in this little shack on a hillside. The band The Wild North along with a few friends hanging around, they spent their days and nights sculpting this old but fresh batch of personal folk songs into cosmic country funky grooves. In every song you can hear shades of Townes, Waylon, Kristofferson, Dylan, and Springsteen.  After a week of recording at ‘Old Man Mountain’, and sleeping at Way’s favorite dive bar motel down the road (The West Country Inn), the EP was finished. Everyone involved could sense that something special had just occurred.There is palpable and natural magic that can be heard and felt in these recordings.As fate would have it, Elliot moved back to East Vancouver just as the pandemic hit, which put
the brakes on the release of the record. Producer Erik Nielsen decided that they could use this
time to their advantage, intuitively knowing that there was more gold to be mined. He asked
Elliot to write a second side to match the first, a task that seemed an impossibility to Way
considering the first batch of songs took a decade to write and collect. Life does have its funny
ways however, and for better or worse around this time a wave of turmoil would strike Elliot’s
personal life. After leaving his home with nowhere to go, he took shelter at the 2400 Motel
where he would write 5 songs in 3 days. These songs became the perfect companion to the Old
Man Mountain recordings, reminiscent of life’s tough lessons that can be hard in the first half of
All I Know. Erik and Elliots his dream team of players would then embark on the final chapter of this record , and together at Erik’s new studio in East Vancouver they would complete the sonic journey and put the final touches on these new but familiar songs giving us Elliot C Way’s long overdue introduction to the world..... All I Know.

Elliot C Way Sand Turns To Glass

Elliot C Way - Shotgun Love

Elliot C Way - Seen A Lot Of  Love

Elliot C Way - River Road

Elliot C Way - Old Soul Young At Heart

Elliot C Way - No Place

Elliot C Way - I Could Be Anything

Elliot C Way - Bleed

Elliot C Way - Angels And Ashes

Elliot C Way - All I Know

Elliot C Way - Fool's Gold

Elliot C Way is a seeker, a dreamer and a searcher for the truth. His obsession with honest music is all consuming and it bleeds into every aspect of his life. His songs are life lessons learnt the hard way and he has fought for every single word. His gritty and soulful voice is raw and deep with emotion that can shake you to the core. When he sings we listen, for here is a man who has lived many lives and is bearing the weight of it all, nothing is withheld, he has and always will wear his heart on his sleeve. Salt of the earth but something beyond this world.  In the 2010s Way started obsessing over songwriting and legends such as Townes, Neil Young and Bob Dylan he picked up an acoustic guitar and never looked back. Way started by playing outside of his hometown Fort Langley’ liquor store for enough money to buy a 6 pack and a pack of smokes, then onto  small coffee houses playing with other lost youth. It wasn't until playing in a few garage bands in a sort of small town hippy communion log cabin house with a bunch of thirsty young musicians that the path of the future was vividly clear. It was there that he started making the trip into the big city to cut his teeth in small clubs, this time was also the birth of one of Way’s many brain childs that has become a staple and the catalyst for starting the folk, country and rock and roll community in Vancouver BC, Moonshinin Music Fest. With the help from his best friend and mentor Bob Sumner he carved out his own claim in the Vancouver music community, they co created a special evening of music made of what a song writer's wet dreams are made of… For The Sake Of The Song Sundys hosted in Elliots then Vintage clothing store had become the go to place to play and share songs. It was around this time that way formed new friendships and soon to be new band and brotherhood The Wild North, an epic dad rock band that takes their sound by paying tribute to The Boss, Tom Petty and Bob Seger they have taken the city by storm and are infamous  for their energetic and “wild”  live show. With some of the best players in Vancouver that just happen to be his best pals they have been a go to band for a good time in the vancouver music scene and after years of playing they released their long awaited debut album Welcome To… The Wild North in 2019 . Now After years of playing in bands only playing his more personal and heartfelt songs a few times a year, Way has finally returned to his humble beginnings and roots to share his stories. 


He always has been true ...but with this new chapter he is wearing his  influences on his sleeve more than ever! You can see them as clear as day and hear them as loud as thunder crashing. In late 2019 right before the world stopped, Way and his dream team spent a week of recording in his then home Old Man Mountain, a little shack on a hill in the farm country of his home town of Langley BC. The band and a few friends spent days and nights sculpting this old but fresh batch of personal folk songs into bad ass cosmic grooves with funky drums, big fuzzy guitars, thumpy bass and soaring fiddle and pedal steel these sounds and tones that tell the stories as much as the words do. In every song there is a little bit of Townes, Waylon, Kristofferson, Dylan, Springsteen. It's a heavy dose trip and Elliot is in it for the long haul. There’s nothing separating Elliot from his music and or his dreams but the everyday struggles to stay afloat in the sinking world. This is why Way is a lighthouse, a beacon of light to shine on you to find your way back to a simpler time.  If you see Elliot C Way on the street you might only see his Boogie Van, Choppers, His dog, 70s clothing and a very strong vibe but not know him at all, it's only when you listen to Way’s songs that you truly know him.

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