Life At Best (15 Years Deluxe) Eli Young Band

• 1 Even If It Breaks Your Heart 03:40
• 2 Crazy Girl (Single Version) 03:22
• 3 Every Other Memory 04:45
• 4 On My Way 03:28
• 5 Skeletons 03:22
• 6 I Love You 03:23
• 7 The Fight 04:24
• 8 My Old Man’s Son 03:43
• 9 Recover 02:59
• 10 The Falling 03:38
• 11 War On A Desperate Man 04:06
• 12 Say Goodnight 03:10
• 13 How Quickly You Forget 03:39
• 14 Life At Best 02:56
• 15 Go Outside And Dance 02:32
• 16 Room Goes Dark (Demo) 03:13
• 17 Me And Jack (Demo) 03:40
• 18 Crazy Girl (Acoustic) 03:22
• 19 Say Goodnight (Radio Edit) 02:56
• 20 The Fight (Single Edit) 03:54
• Total Runtime 01:10:12

Info for Life At Best (15 Years Deluxe)

Multi-Platinum country hitmakers, Eli Young Band, are releases a deluxe edition of their highly successful LIFE AT BEST album.

LIFE AT BEST takes the listener on a journey, winding through songscapes that walk a delicate line. There's a distinct variance from track to track as EYB veers from energetic quasi-rockers to steel-ladled country songs to conflicted ballads. And yet the album maintains a singular identity, built around a sound that's been masterfully created over the course of three studio albums.

Eli Young Band scored its first top 10 hit with “It's Always the Love Songs,” and the Texas country quartet comes through with another appealing batch of ballads on its new album “Life at Best.”

After finally making “Radio Waves” with its 2008 album “Jet Black & Jealous,” singer/guitarist Mike Eli, guitarist James Young, drummer Chris Thompson and bassist Jon Jones are in their 11th year of making music together without a lineup change — builds on that breakthrough with “Life at Best.” The band, which helped pen nine of the new album's 14 tracks, recently received its first gold certification for the lead-off single “Crazy Girl.”

But the unexpectedly tender hit isn't even the most affecting love song on the new album, which celebrates romance with giddy joy on “On My Way” and “I Love You” and mourns broken relationships in deceptively bouncy fashion on “Every Other Memory” and “The Falling.” Bray native Katrina Elam co-wrote “Say Goodnight,” which sizzles with sensual ardor.

Still, the album's best ballad, opener “Even if It Breaks Your Heart,” isn't about a man loving a woman but about a musician adoring a dream. The group again delves into the themes of working hard for dreams and living life to the fullest on the anthemic title track, the motivational “Recover” and uplifting “The Fight.” The band pays tribute to father-son ties without getting too sappy on “My Old Man's Son” and recognizes that everyone has personal demons with the muscular country-rocker “Skeletons.”

What goes around comes around, and nearly 25 years after forming in Denton, Texas, Eli Young Band has come full circle. After rising from Texas’ vibrant independent country scene, their 2005 breakout album Level launched the band into the national spotlight, followed by three Billboard Top 5 albums including the No. 1 10,000 Towns and Platinum-certified Life At Best.

The band boasts multiple No. 1 singles including the 5X Platinum “Crazy Girl,” 3X Platinum “Even If It Breaks Your Heart,” Platinum “Drunk Last Night,” and 2X Platinum “Love Ain’t,” along with a catalog of fan-favorite hits that have defined modern country radio for more than a decade.

In 2025, Eli Young Band released Strange Hours, a 13-track album written entirely by the band and recorded back home in Denton at the same studio where Level was born. The project marks a creative homecoming, returning to the raw, grassroots energy that first defined their sound, while bringing the wisdom and edge of 25 years on the road.

The lead single “Home In Hometown” captures the heart of that journey, a powerful reflection on life, family, and finding home wherever the road leads. With millions of fans, more than two decades of hits, and a renewed creative spark, Eli Young Band remains very much in their prime.

Eli Young Band

Eli Young Band
has always been unique in modern Country music – a true band of brothers who play their own instruments, write their own songs and cling fast to their Texas roots. With LOVE TALKING out now via The Valory Music Co., they embrace what makes them different once and for all.

Overall, lead singer Mike Eli found himself writing more than 150 songs in the time since the GRAMMY-nominated band released THIS IS ELI YOUNG BAND: GREATEST HITS in 2019. On LOVE TALKING, he joins forces with Nashville stalwarts Jimmy Robbins, Laura Veltz, Josh Osborne, Jon Nite and more. Also finding a home on the album is the sentimental “Lucky For Me” and tongue-in-cheek “Break Up In A Bar.”

“We really wanted to find the positivity in what we got out of the last two years, so that was one of the main goals for this album,” notes Eli. “There was a lot of unknown that was written into some of the music we created during that time, but we all lived it so deeply; we wanted to offer something uplifting with our music.”

Eli founded the band with guitarist James Young, bassist Jon Jones and drummer Chris Thompson at the University of North Texas in 2000, steadily building a grassroots fanbase that propelled four No. 1 singles and gave the band an edgy, romantically-charged identity (4X PLATINUM “Crazy Girl,” 2X PLATINUM “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” and PLATINUM “Love Ain’t” and “Drunk Last Night “).

The trailblazing group has come a long way since with a dynamic career thus far producing Billboard's No. 1 Country Song of the Year and ACM Award for Song of the Year with “Crazy Girl,” plus racking up over 2 billion streams to earn Pandora Billionaire status. Multiple CMA, CMT, ACA and Teen Choice Award nominations along with over 3 billion streams of their career catalogue offer an undeniable of EYB’s unique connection with fans. Even through sonic evolutions and changes to the Country industry, their obsessive following has continued to grow.

What they’re good at has always been the same – organic, live-show focused Country dripping with authenticity and perfected in sold-out clubs, amphitheaters and stadiums coast-to-coast. Confident in their soulful, hearts-on-fire brand of Country, the title track of their forthcoming album is impacting Country radio and playlists now as they head out on a 51-city tour of the same name. EYB has also shared the stage with Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, Chris Young, Darius Rucker and Dave Matthews Band, plus performed on national television shows such as TODAY, Conan, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and FOX & Friends.

"We've passed the 20-year mark as a band. And there's something about that which makes you reflect on everything that we've already done. And now, it feels like we are entering a new chapter. This new music feels full of energy and full of life," Eli recently shared with People.com.

“We still look at each other as college buddies – not business partners,” says Young. “We get to share our lives with each other and we’ve done some really cool stuff, and our music has been the greatest byproduct of that.”

This album contains no booklet.