Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson (born August 24, 1950, Hollywood, California) is an Austin, Texas-based folk musician. She is the daughter of songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson and his wife, Jane. Her brother is guitarist Tony Gilkyson, who played with the Los Angeles-based bands Lone Justice and X. She is married to scholar and author Robert Jensen.

Career

Gilkyson first recorded as a vocalist on demos and soundtracks produced by her father, who wrote several hits in the 1950s and early 1960s and is also known as a singer-composer for 1960s Disney films. She released Eliza '69, her first album, in 1969 while raising a family in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and did not come out with her second, Love from the Heart, until ten years later. She moved to Austin, Texas in 1981 and released the commercial album Pilgrims before moving to Los Angeles in 1987.

After a brief stint in Los Angeles, she returned to New Mexico in the early 1990s, releasing several albums of original material. In 1993 she collaborated with New Age artist Andreas Vollenweider on his recording, Eolian Minstrel. She has been with Red House Records since 2000, although she also worked on three albums independently, recording on her own label, Realiza Records. In 2003 she was inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame. Eliza's third album with Red House Records, Land of Milk and Honey was released in 2004, and was nominated for a Grammy.

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John Gorka returns to Club Passim with new songs and old favorites

The Patriot Ledger 28 Jun 2018

When he picked up the phone, John Gorka was still a little groggy from the time he spent “as kind of a midwife, helping to bring new songs into the world” at Eliza Gilkyson’s songwriter workshop in Taos, New Mexico.He had just gotten home to Minnesota the night before, and despite the tiredness, was really happy he completed two new songs of his own, while helping others with their craft ... ....

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SOUNDS AROUND TOWN: John Gorka returns to Club Passim with new songs and old favorites

Metrowest Daily News 26 Jun 2018

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Eliza Gilkyson Takes on Ideology-Based Hatred With 'In the Name of the Lord': Premiere

Billboard 20 Jun 2018

With its themes of empowerment and the impact of spiritual theology on gender inequality and politics, Eliza Gilkyson's 20th album, Secularia -- whose track "In The Name of the Lord" is premiering exclusively below -- "was a tricky record for me to make," according to the singer-songwriter ... But Gilkyson's anger is not necessarily directed at God, or a god ... "I'm getting older," Gilkyson says....

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Noteworthy

Santa Monica Daily Press 07 Jun 2018

... lyrics musing on mortality, whales, and the geography of pre-apocalyptic L.A., they waste no notes but knock you out and leave you smiling, and Gilkyson is a local/NM treasure, son of Terry, brother of Eliza, who rocked hard for a decade with X but gives the most nuanced, affecting solo performances), Sun 8 PM, McCabe’s, Santa Monica, $15....

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Final album from Jimmy LaFave, who died one year ago today, due out in July

The Oklahoman 21 May 2018

LOG IN Oklahoman subscribers log in and go ad-FREE. Jimmy LaFave. Photo provided ... He was 61 ... Foremost among the artists LaFave admired was Oklahoma folk icon Woody Guthrie ... Album cover art provided ... It was later released as a live double album of the same name on LaFave's Music Road label with performances by Pete Seeger, Eliza Gilkyson, Kevin Welch, Slaid Cleaves, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Ellis Paul and Michael Fracasso ... ....

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Folk legend John Gorka at Stone Mountain May 19

Conway Daily Sun 17 May 2018

The renowned songwriter is touring for his new studio album, “True In Time,” which features a band of some of the Twin Cities' best musicians in live sessions, with vocal cameos contributed by fellow folk luminaries Jonatha Brooke, Eliza Gilkyson, and Lucy Kaplansky ... He consistently tops the Folk DJ charts and fills venues here and abroad and is beloved by his fellow songwriters ... Lobby and bar opens at 5 p.m ... ....

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Grappling with #MeToo through music

San Francisco Chronicle 09 May 2018

The reach of sexual violence is pervasive and far from new, which means that musical artists of all stripes have had plentiful occasions to try to reckon with it through their work ... The offerings range across a wide stylistic swath, to include performance art by Olli Kortekangas, classical works by Barber and Messiaen, and the work of such popular artists as Dolly Parton, Carly Simon and Eliza Gilkyson ... ....

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Hawkins to headline this year's folk festival

The Bradford Era 15 Apr 2018

Singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins will headline this year’s Northern Appalachian Music Festival in downtown Indiana ... +3. The sixth annual folk festival will be staged on Sept. 8. Other acts that have been booked for the music festival ... She has since released six solo albums and released radio-charting albums with the folk supergroups Red Horse (with Eliza Gilkyson and John Gorka) and Cry Cry Cry (with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell)....

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Jukebox: McKrell set for extended Parting Glass stay

The Daily Gazette 05 Apr 2018

The hyperactive singer-songwriter-bandleader once played, as he said on Facebook ... 7 p.m ... A newfound binge-worthy (i.e., too short!) BBC mystery series “Case Histories” features extraordinary music by superb singer-songwriters Eliza Gilkyson, Mary Gauthier (playing the Linda April 25), Iris DeMent, Nanci Griffith, Sarah McLachlan, Lucinda Williams, Kris Delmhorst, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Gillian Welch, even (HEY!) Public Enemy....

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Joan Baez's expressive talent intact on new album

The Malta Independent 23 Mar 2018

Joan Baez, "Whistle Down the Wind" (Bobolink/Razor & Tie) ... Some of the songwriters, like Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan and Eliza Gilkyson, also contributed to "Day After Tomorrow," the 2008 album produced by Steve Earle that's like a soul mate of this one, shepherded by Joe Henry ... Baez can be mischievously funny in interviews, but not here ... ....

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Album review: Joan Baez's expressive talent remains intact on new album

The Advocate 15 Mar 2018

Some of the songwriters here, like Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan and Eliza Gilkyson, also contributed to "Day After Tomorrow," the ......

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Music review: Joan Baez - ‘Whistle Down the Wind’

Herald-Standard 15 Mar 2018

For her first studio release since 2008’s “Day After Tomorrow,” Joan Baez lends her compassionate voice to a stirring set of arrangements penned by other notable artists such as Josh Ritter, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eliza Gilkyson, Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ... We Are Made Of” and Gilkyson’s powerful day-of-reckoning tune “The Great Correction .”....

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Review: Joan Baez's expressive talent intact on new album

Waco Tribune-Herald 15 Mar 2018

Nearly 10 years on from her last studio album, Joan Baez delivers another pearl, 10 deeply felt interpretations about the human condition and the state of the world ... Some of the songwriters, like Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan and Eliza Gilkyson, also contributed to “Day After Tomorrow,” the 2008 album produced by Steve Earle that’s like a soul mate of this one, shepherded by Joe Henry ... .......

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