Granville Automatic is the songwriting partnership of Elizabeth Elkins and Vanessa Olivarez. Not quite a country band, and not quite a rock band, they will both agree they are, above all else, a storytelling band.

The band’s new double album, Ghosts of Rooms, is about Paris’ Hotel La Louisiane and New York City’s Hotel Chelsea. Every song is a first-person account of the experience of a famous resident, including Miles Davis, Simone de Beauvoir and Salvador Dali in Paris — and Patti Smith, Sid and Nancy, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Eugene O’Neill in New York.

Ghosts of Rooms is coming late 2026.

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Granville Automatic writes songs the Associated Press calls “haunting tales of sorrow and perseverance.” The duo is named after a 19th-century typewriter.

The girls’ devotion to the project has proved a chaotic road of back-breaking touring, interpersonal tension, former-day-job balancing, other-band leaving, and a love-hate dynamic that brought them from Atlanta to Nashville. Theirs is a creative partnership reminiscent of Lennon-McCartney, a dreamer-doer, accessible-obtuse, country-rock collision of two polar opposites. What the two share, however, is a love for nostalgia: old records and antiques, tarot cards and dusty books, ghosts on battlefields and lost stories from the past. That common ground has produced music praised by The New York Times, USA Today and Rolling Stone.

They have millions of streams to date, with appearances on Apple Music's Hot Country Tracks, Featured Americana Tracks, and the Southern Craft playlist - as well as Pandora's New Country and Spotify’s New Music Nashville.

Granville Automatic’s last two albums, Tiny Televisions and Radio Hymns feature songs inspired by Nashville’s lost history. It’s a subject they know well, as Vanessa and Elizabeth are co-authors of the critically-acclaimed book Hidden History of Music Row (The History Press), with a foreword by Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn. The book was named the Best Book of 2020 by No Depression.

Outside of Granville Automatic, the two have written songs recorded by country stars Billy Currington (Billboard Country Top 30), Sugarland, Ward Davis, Cassidy Daniels, Aubrie Sellers, Kira Isabella (Billboard Canadian Country Top 10), Aaron Goodvin, Wanda Jackson, Angaleena Presley and others. They have been Composers in Residence at Seaside, Fla.’s Escape to Create program. They’ve appeared on Sirius XM’s “The Buddy & Jim Show”, DittyTV, PBS’ Sun Studio Sessions and WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour. You may have heard their songs on ABC’s American Crime and The Lying Game, as well as Netflix’s The Ranch. They used to tour constantly, including stops at SXSW, the Key West, Island Hopper, Red River and 30A Songwriters festivals, CMA Fest and Tin Pan South. They’ve played at venues from the legendary Joshua Tree roadhouse Pappy & Harriet’s to Texas’ haunted Gruene Hall and have shared the stage with Gretchen Peters, Little Texas, Shenandoah, Radney Foster and The SteelDrivers. But for now they focus heavily on songwriting, playing a handful of shows and support dates annually.