Artist: Eliza Gilkyson
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Lost and Found
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Misfits
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Pilgrims
Year: 1987
Tracks: 9
Folk singer/songwriter Eliza Gilkyson was innate in Hollywood, CA, the daughter of folk-pop singer/songwriter Terry Gilkyson (1916-1999). Her father wrote and recorded "The Cry of the Wild Goose," which Frankie Laine covered for a number one strike in 1950, as well as the 1953 Top Ten strike "Severalize Me a Story" recorded by Jimmy Boyd and Laine. As a performer, he was co-credited with the Weavers on the 1951 Top Ten strike "On Top of Old Smoky." With Richard Dehr and Frank Miller, he was a member of the Easy Riders. The trey wrote the 1953 Top Ten strike "Mr. Tap Toe" recorded by Doris Day, and they wrote and provided championship vocals on the 1957 number one strike "Memories Are Made of This" recorded by Dean Martin. The same class, as Terry Gilkyson and the Easy Riders, they scored their possess Top Ten strike with the self-written "Marianne," and they wrote Laine's Top Ten strike "Love Is a Golden Ring." They too wrote the 1960 Top Ten strike "Greenfields" recorded by the Brothers Four. Terry afterwards was employed by the Walt Disney party to compose songs for and sing in its films and television receiver programs, and his theme "The Bare Necessities" from the 1967 motion-picture show The Jungle Book earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Growing up in Hollywood, Eliza sometimes panax quinquefolius on her father's demos and soundtracks along with her brother Tony Gilkyson, world Health Organization by and by became a appendage of the rock bands Lone Justice and X and performed on her records. Though uncredited, she buns be heard singing with her don in the Disney TV movies The Secret of Romney Marsh (1964) and The Legend of Young Dick Turpin (1965). (She too had a sister, Nancy Gilkyson, world Health Organization became an executive at Warner Bros. Records and panax quinquefolius on her records.) In her late teens, she stirred to Santa Fe, NM, where she raised a family and released her low gear album, Eliza '69, on Mont Clare Records. (Her son Cisco Gilliland [akaCisco Ryder and Cisco Gilkyson] by and by became the percussionist in her backup isthmus, and she also had a girl, Cordelia Castillo [aka Delia Gilkyson], world Health Organization later american ginseng on her records.) Her second foray into recording was her 1979 LP Love from the Heart, released under the name Lisa Gilkyson by Helios Records. Over the side by side several years, she stirred to Austin, TX, then back to Los Angeles, then to Taos, NM. Again as Eliza Gilkyson, she signed to Gold Castle Records and released Pilgrims in 1987. The label marketed the album as a new age recording, a tag Gilkyson by and by jilted. She followed Pilgrims with Legends of Rainmaker (1989), which featured her cover of "Greenfields" and a duo with Bonnie Raitt on her possess composition "Rosie Strike Back," a rock & stray birdsong decrying spousal misuse, which had already been recorded by Rosanne Cash on her 1987 album King's Record Shop. Unfortunately, Gold Castle went bankrupt, and Gilkyson was without a record tag for several days. In 1993, she was signed to Private Music, which issued Through the Looking Glass that summer. She side by side co-wrote eight of 14 songs and american ginseng and played on harpist Andreas Vollenweider's album Eolian Minstrel, released in November, then toured with him. She moved to Europe and got divorced from her husband of 14 years, going away her American vocation behind. In 1994, she released an album called Undressed oversea on Revelizations Records. She returned to the U.S., subsidence over again in Austin, and reintroduced herself to her motherland with Redemption Road, released in September 1997 on Silver Ware. "Prayer 2000," a song dynasty from the album that she co-wrote with Mark Andes (erstwhile of Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Firefall, and Heart), was by and by covered by Priscilla Herdman. In 1999, Gilkyson formed her own Realiza label and issued Misfits, a compendium of previously unreleased archival recordings. She then sign-language to the self-governing folk label Red House Records for a modern album, Hard Times in Babylon, released in October 2000. The opening song dynasty, "The Beauty Way," co-written with Andes, was by and by covered by Ray Wylie Hubbard. Lost and Found followed in April 2002. Three months by and by, she teamed up with Ian Matthews and Ad Vanderveen for the trio album More Than a Song, released by Perfect Pitch. Her side by side Red House solo album was the politically oriented State of Milk and Honey (March 2004), featuring the antecedently live Woody Guthrie song "Peace Call," with backing vocals by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, and Iris DeMent, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album. In July 2005, she self-released RetroSpecto, a solicitation of rare and out of print real. Paradise Hotel, her twenty-five percent Red House discharge, appeared the next month. Your Town Tonight, Gilkyson's first live disk, was released deuce days later.
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