Eliot Bronson : storytellin’ Americana LIVE at Canopy + the Roots
Over the course of seven albums, indie folksinger Eliot Bronson has created his own brand of atmospheric American roots music. He’s an award winner. A road warrior with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. An internationally-renowned songwriter with a voice that swoons and sweeps, making fans out of everyone from his hometown newspaper, The Baltimore Sun — who championed Bronson from the very start, hailing him as “a folk singing wunderkind” back when he was still playing local coffeeshops — to Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb, whose work on 2014’s Eliot Bronson and 2017’s James placed Bronson on the same client roster as heartfelt songwriters like Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton.
His new record, Arrive, will be released on Nov. 6, 2026.Produced by the incredible Oliver Wood Engineered and mixed by Brook Sutton at The Studio Nashville. Over the last two years, Eliot has been sneaking away to the mountains or the forest on solo writing retreats. I’ve been listening for the words I needed to hear. I’ve been asking myself, “What can I offer? What can I learn? And what needs to be healed?” There’s so much to say about this record. There will be time for that. For now, I’ll just say that this is a different kind of album for me. The songs aren’t fueled by pain or grief, but by abundance. Sure, there’s still sadness in them. But there’s a greater wholeness somehow. Joy, even.I’ve never been more proud of anything I’ve made. Or of the incredible group of people I got to make it with.Huge thanks to robertbrethartley , Will Robertson , John Mailander , Gabe Dixon , Matt Glassmeyer kRisTINA TRAIN , JP Ruggieri , Mark Raudabaugh and of course, Oliver Wood. We made a really special record, my friends, and I can’t wait for the world to hear it.
Photography: Andrew Lee Graphic design: Keith Brogdon
Before moving to ATL, he’d grown up in working-class Baltimore, within walking distance of the Pentecostal Church where his father and grandfather once preached to congregants who spoke in tongues. His parents drew their inspiration from religion and 1960s counterculture, but Bronson took his own from the records that filled his father’s collection, from folk acts like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Joni Mitchell to the trailblazing blues duo of Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. Inspired to make his own music, he began writing songs as a teenager and eventually relocated to Atlanta, where he performed with The Brilliant Inventions for years before winning first place in the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest as a solo act.
Bronson is a diverse songwriter, bouncing between poetic turns-of-phrase and direct narratives, and he’s never sounded so compelling as a vocalist. Whether leaping into his falsetto or singing in a woozy croon, he wrings every ounce of feeling from his lyrics, bringing those emotions to vivid life.