Formed in 2002, Elliott Brood (the name is a bastardized homage to the femme-fatale character in the 1984 baseball film "The Natural") united teenage pals Mark Sasso and Casey Laforet over their grown-up love for Neil Young, The Band and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Stephen Pitkin was an accidental miracle: he fell into the group after working sound at one of their earliest concerts, offering to record their first EP. "Tin Type" was a college radio hit, and soon this compact trio was making some big noise. Across five subsequent albums, sharing vocals and trading instruments— each of the band-members seems to play everything—Elliott Brood has become one of the premier acts in Canadian roots music. Their sound is accessible but not mainstream, alternative but not tragically hip. Elliott Brood comes to Michigan with a new release, "Work and Love."