Elwood is the musical project/collaboration of singer-songwriters Prince Elwood Strickland III and Brian Boland. 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.