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The latest album from Elliott BROOD, Mountain Meadows, is loosely based on the massacre by the same name that took place in 1857.  The new album isn`t so much a historical account as it is a speculative journey into the undocumented personal experiences of those affected by the massacre.  Admittedly though, the speculations are likely both imaginative as well as an unintended autobiographical insight of the band members themselves. 
The band has an uncanny ability to reinvent the traditional perspective of folk and country into a more innovative approach that somehow remains true to the genres original intent.  Their melodies are strikingly rich yet simple, able to hit the sweet spot over four chords that can instantly turn the banal into blissful while maintaining a sense of accessibility and purpose that doesn`t become bland.  The band explains that Mountain Meadows takes a psycho-geographical look at a journey across the West.  From starting out wide-eyed and ambitious, eventually experiencing doubt and disenchantment and then coming full circle - giving the journey a sense of completeness by each phase contributing to the next and therefore furnishing its overall inherent purpose.