So, we are very pleased to announce that the current edition of Southeast Performer features a review of our debut album, “All My Life”. You can check out the review at the online e-reader or read it in its entirety below. Thanks Performer Mag!

Simple and sweet, Elonzo’s debut album is on that fully relects the band’s South Carolina surroundings. With brush strokes of bluegrass, folk and hard-working Americana, the trio’s music paints pictures of the Blue Ridge Mountains and lush forest hiking trails.

The quiet nature of their songs is felf through quick rootsy quitar picking, as found in “About Last Night,” or in the slow swing tempo of songs like “Fool’s Gold.”

Still, Elonzo’s take on folk tunes are not dated or tired rehashings of the past. Like Band of Horses, or even the later works of Conor Oberst, the band bottles the soul of its musical inspiration, yet still manages to build on it in a relevant way. This is seen greatly in the lyrics written by quitarist Jeremy Davis. All My Life is an album that tackles the same issues that have always plagued songwriters, only this time the working man has insurance to worry about and the religious man acknowledges his sin but does not always try to correct his wrong doings. Most of their tracks surround a type of journey that has no real end point, the suspensions that are felt as we move through life. This is especially so in the song “Forty Miles to Asheville,” which details a sort of never ending road trip of self-discovery.

All My Life is an album that was literally produced in-hous by the members of Elonzo. All the recordings were done at one of the member’s homes. Because of this there are occasional stints of background noise, but they usually prove to be edearing rather than distracting. The overall sound of the recorded track could be more robust with more layered instrumentation, but for a self-made debut this record is truly something to treasure. -Nico Stahl (Southeast Performer Magazine)