Album Of The Day: The Chess Hotel by The Elms

Album Art of The Elms's The Chess Hotel album - A mostly black cover with what looks like hand-penciled white corners on it. In the middle in gold-colored lettering is the band name and the album title below it in quotes and a smaller size. The black background is scuffed in parts like it's supposed to be some sort of worn table or something.

"Who puts rock 'n' roll in your blood?" Released on this day 19 years ago, this is the third album from midwestern rock band The Elms. Possibly inspired by The Black Keys, this album has a rougher, blues rock edge to it than their previous albums and Thom Daugherty's excellent guitar work defines the sound of this band. This album keeps the energy and passion up at a 10 throughout and the music and the lyrics work as a soundtrack to middle-class Americans in small towns across the midwest. A favorite track of mine is the epic "The Towers And The Trains" which rocks out for over 5½ minutes. This may be their best album overall, though the lyrical content is a bit dark in spots, and I'm totally looking forward to this fall's reunion concert. "We put rock 'n' roll in your blood!"

Release Year: 2006
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A photo of a man smiling on the right in a white-gray T-shirt with a green design holding a black vinyl album with four colored circles on the cover in the middle, plus two copies of the CD, with the black cover described separately in the other image.

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