IF YOU GOWhat: Nightfall Concert Series featuring Elliott Brood.When: 8 p.m. today; Land Camera opens at 7.Where: Miller Plaza, corner of M.L. King Boulevard, Market and Cherry streets.Admission: Free.Phone: 265-0771.Venue website: www.nightfallchattanooga.com.THE OPENERLand Camera is a local experimental folk/rock group led by Charles Allison. He is joined by multi-instrumentalists Bob Stagner, Callie Harmon and John R. Lazenby III. For details, visit the band’s profile at Facebook.com/landcamera.
To many people, touring French backroads means a chance to relax and take in the scenery, but all the three members of Elliott Brood could think of was the historical tragedies that had occurred there.
During their first European tour in 2007, the Canadian based alt-country musicians were seeing muddy battlefields where others might see vineyards and villages. As history buffs and avid storytellers, they recognized its potential as a source of musical inspiration.
That trip led to 2011’s “Days Into Years,” a 10-track concept album built around the theme of growing older and the trials young men faced on both sides of the battlefield.
“We’re not trying to retell history in our songs,” said vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Casey Laforet. “We start off with an idea, let the song tell itself and let people interpret it a certain way.