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Eli Young Band

Tomball, TX

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Region: Upper Gulf Coast / Houston Area Conference: Texas Regional Rank: #2

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Did You Know

  • • Their single "Crazy Girl" was the Billboard Year-End Top Country Song of 2011.
  • • Eli Young Band's "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" earned them a Grammy nomination.
  • • They've achieved multiple Platinum certifications from the RIAA for their hit singles.
  • • The band's sound blends country with elements of rock and alternative music.
  • • Their early music was influenced by artists like Steve Earle and Robert Earl Keen.

Locations in Lyrics

32 location references across 15 songs

Songs & Places

Always the Love Songs
Highway 249, TX
"We used to pull off Highway 249"
Small Town Kid
Denton, TX New York City, NY
"I'm a small town kid"
Where Were You
Matagorda Bay, TX New York City, NY Los Angeles, CA
"It was Matagorda Bay when I got my first taste of booze"
Even If It Breaks Your Heart
Memphis, TN
"From steel guitars to Memphis, all the way to rock and roll"
Home In Hometown
Elgin, OK
"It's almost like that one stop light / In Elgin, Oklahoma was winking"
Turn It On
Shiner, TX
"Standin' there sippin' that shiner bock"
Saltwater Gospel
Detroit, MI
"Me, I get in my old Bronco and point those headlights out"
Dust
Detroit, MI
"She got the pedal to the floor in a hand-me-down Ford"
Oklahoma Girl
Oklahoma Texas Red River, TX Denison, TX Sherman, TX Gainesville, TX Wichita Falls, TX Ardmore, OK Durant, OK Lawton, OK Broken Bow, OK
"Song about Oklahoma"
Skin & Bones
backroads home
The Days I Feel Alone
Interstate Motels home
home in a hometown
Elgin, OK
Call You a Friend
West Texas hills of Tennessee
"West Texas skies"
Highways and Broken Hearts
Colorado
"Then off through Colorado"
Back of My Mind
Denton, TX Red River, TX Gainesville, TX Sherman, TX Ardmore, OK Durant, OK
"What if we fell in love again in our hometown"

Rivers & Roads in Song Nearby

Interstate 45 8 US Route 90 9 Interstate 10 36 U.S. Route 59 9 Brazos River 42

Connected Places

Tomball, TX Los Angeles, CA Memphis, TN New York, NY Shiner, TX Shiner, Texas, TX
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