''Ambassador'' is the title of the first full-length album released by the Canadian

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band

Elliott Brood Elliott Brood (often stylized as Elliott BROOD) is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vo ...

. It was released in October 2005 on the independent music label

Six Shooter Records Six Shooter Records is an independent record label based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that uses an artist-centric business model, focusing on art before commerce combined with extensive touring. Six Shooter Records was founded in 2000 by Shauna d ...

. The album is titled for the

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, which links

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— the hometown of two of the band's three members — to

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. The album was nominated for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (Group) at the

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, but lost to the self-titled album by

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Track listing

#"Twill" – 6:30 #"President (35)" – 2:26 #"Second Son" – 3:35 #"Acer Negundo" – 3:19 #"Wolfgang" – 2:43 #"My Friend" – 3:07 #"Jackson" – 4:00 #"Johnny Rooke" – 4:21 #"The Bridge" – 3:03 #"Back of the Lot" – 2:50 #"W.W.Y.H.M.B." – 4:26 #"Superior" – 6:02

References

2005 debut albums Elliott Brood albums Six Shooter Records albums {{2000s-country-album-stub