Eliza Gilkyson - Your Town Tonight
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Artist: Eliza GilkysonEdition: Music CD
Published: 2007
CD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Music Label: Red House
Soundtracks:
- Beauty Way
- Green Fields intro
- Green Fields
- Dark Side of Town
- Tender Mercies
- Jokerman
- Rose of Sharon intro
- Rose of Sharon
- Tennessee Road
- Angel And Delilah
- Hard Times In Babylon
- Jedidiah 1777
- Lights of Santa Fe
- Easy Rider intro
- Easy Rider
- Requiem
- Bare Necessities
Free Music Notes for Your Town Tonight
Free Music Review: Nothing compares to Eliza live, but this is a great collection of her work
Hit: 5 Stars
For those of you who haven't met her, Eliza is the daughter of Terry Gilkyson, who wrote "Bare Necessities" for the Jungle Book and "Green Fields" which is a folkie standard. Eliza lives in Austin, TX now and plays there frequently.
I've heard most of this music live during the time I lived in Austin and listening to this music is like coming home. Ms. Gilkyson has an amazing voice that I'd describe as honey and habaneros. She's one of those people I keep hoping will be 'discovered'. She's certainly paid some dues and created some lovely music to boot.
"Beauty Way" talks about Terry Gilkyson and Eliza's career in relationship to his.
"Requiem" is one of the most beautifully done songs I have ever heard. It was done for the tsunami and is truly a threnody to the suffering and death that took place.
"Hard Times In Babylon" is probably my favorite of her music--if it's possible to have one from so many fine tunes. Another tale of the music business.
I have every CD Eliza has done plus her work with Will Taylor and Strings Attached, a great string ensemble that accompanies many of the best musicians around at Friday Night concerts in Austin.
This CD is a great addition for a completist like me and I'd call it a "Greatest Hits Live" collection for those who do not know her but would like to find out more.
Your Town Tonight Poster
Your Town Tonight is singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's first-ever live release in a music career that began in the late 1960s. It's the fifth album on Red House Records for the Grammy-nominated, Austin Music Hall of Fame-enshrined artist, following the acclaimed Paradise Hotel, which won three Austin Music Awards and four Folk Alliance Awards.Responding to adamant demands for a live CD, Eliza Gilkyson delivers 14 songs full of the passion and humor that fans have come to expect in her moving live performances. Although frequently requested favorites like "Beauty Way" and "Requiem" are included, Your Town Tonight is unique in its breadth, showcasing older originals like "Rose of Sharon" and "Lights of Santa Fe," as well as covers of songs by Bob Dylan ("Jokerman") and her father Terry Gilkyson ("Bare Necessities" and "Green Fields").
Recorded predominantly at the Cactus Café in her hometown of Austin, Texas, the album features a familiar cast of characters that includes her long-time producer Mark Hallman and her award-winning band--Mike Hardwick (electric guitar, dobro), Cisco Ryder (drums, vocals), Glenn Fukunaga (bass), Jeff Plankenhorn (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Robert McEntee (electric guitar, vocals). Also joining her is label-mate Ray Bonneville, adding searing blues harmonica on "Angel and Delilah" and "Dark Side of Town."
From the rocking Americana sounds of the first track to the down home swing of the last, Your Town Tonight is a friendly recording that draws the listener in, showing what makes Eliza Gilkyson stand out from the crowded field of singer-songwriters, causing critics to call her "one of the most original and influential folk artists of our time" (This Is Texas Music).
Eliza Gilkyson may not be as big a marquee name as fellow folkies Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin, but her repertoire is no less well-crafted, cerebral, or darkly compelling ("Requiem"). This live recording--her first--captured largely in her adopted hometown of Austin, Texas, revisits her "best of" original songs ("Rose of Sharon") and serves up covers by her father Terry Gilkyson (the haunting "Green Fields," a hit for the Brothers Four) and Bob Dylan (a quieter version of "Jokerman" than she offered years ago). Gilkyson's spoken prattle is both wry and informative, and her touring band delivers just the right blend of emphasis and embroidery, never overpowering her smooth, dusky alto or upstaging her sometimes frighteningly intense lyrics ("Hard Times in Babylon"). The Grammy nominee doesn't sing a song so much as she inhabits a story, and she affects a kind of understated miracle with "Tennessee Road," making the poignant, if timeworn Elvis Presley saga seem utterly new and chilling in its first-person telling. Your Town Tonight is a must-have for the Gilkyson faithful, and serves as a fine primer for the uninitiated. --Alanna Nash
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