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Sprung from monthly community forums in Austin, Texas, Eliza Gilkyson’s new CD, Beautiful World, has been called ‘cathartic to the point of jubilation’ and ‘political in all the right ways’.

Eliza, the daughter of songwriter Terry Gilkyson (Memories are Made of This, The Bare Necessities and Green Fields) veered into New Age music, working in Europe with Andreas Vollenveider before returning to the US and folk-styled music. The monthly gatherings that inspired the songs on the album were held at various venues with University of Texas professor/activist Robert Jensen and Presbyterian minister Jim Rigby. The first song she wrote, The Great Correction, which grieves over the devastation of the natural world, paved the way for a cycle of tunes about hope for a more beautiful world plus love songs and reflections on personal politics.

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1422
CD Cut 3 - 'The Party's Over'
Eliza Gilkyson
GilkySongs BMI
Red House Records RHR CD 212 ( In Australia through Only Blues Music
www.onlybluesmusic.com
Worldwide: www.redhouserecords.com )
Eliza Gilkyson - 'Beautiful World'
Fades to 4:20
(Electric guitars and organ lace this song that paints the destruction of the earth as a big party - 'It was a big success!')

Segue

1427
CD Cut 11 - 'Land Grab'
Mac Rebennack and Bobby Charles
Fonkalot Music, Inc. BMI and Music Patch BMI
429 Records CTX 418CD (distributed in Australia by Shock: www.shock.com.au, internationally: www.429records.com
Dr John and the Lower 911 - 'City That Care Forgot'
Fades to 5:17
(Dark-toned groove featuring Mac's organ and voice and Terence Blanchard's trumpet that describes the industrialisation of Louisiana's wetlands as a Land Grab)

1434
CD Cut 5 - 'Clever Disguise'
Eliza Gilkyson
GilkySongs BMI
Red House Records RHR CD 212 ( In Australia through Only Blues Music
www.onlybluesmusic.com
Worldwide: www.redhouserecords.com )
Eliza Gilkyson - 'Beautiful World'
4:03
(Eliza's breathy voice and vocal in folksy song about the persona that she wears as a performer and ones others wear to disguise their goodness)

Segue

1438
CD Cut 1 - 'Neighbourhood'
D Kelly and M Anderson
Assume AMCOS
BBR 01 Vitamin Distribution www.vitamin.net.au
Declan Kelly - 'Tales From the Neighbourhood'
5:41
(Austral comp and perf: Declan's drums, voice and guitar in funky song that simply says 'I feel good in my neighbourhood.')

DECLAN KELLY GIG ALERT:

Last gigs at Icebergs Bondi:
July 9- Declan Kelly
July16- Dirty Carpet Disco Band.

1445
CD Cut 2 - 'Wildewood Spring'
Eliza Gilkyson
GilkySongs BMI
Red House Records RHR CD 212 ( In Australia through Only Blues Music
www.onlybluesmusic.com
Worldwide: www.redhouserecords.com )
Eliza Gilkyson - 'Beautiful World'
4:26
(Folky ode for acoustic guitar and strings to an Austin's Barton Springs - a Clearwater spring in the city where you can find peace amidst the bustle - and by extension, a place in your mind. Namechecks the late 'Mambo' John Treanor.)

Segue

1449
CD Cut 2 - 'Minore Tis Avgis' (Minor Song of the Dawn)
Music: Spiros Peristeris, Lyrics: Minos Matsas, arr Moller/Dube
Pub Not Spec
Amigo AMCD 760
( no Australian distributor
www.amigo.se the label site does not do e-commerce.
Should be available worldwide via these sources:
www.cdroots.com
www.cuberoots.com
www.digelius.com )
Ale Möller Band - 'Djef Djel'
3:57
(Maria Stellas sings the Rebitiko song of the 1940s, also known as'Awake My Beloved,' with massed strings and a bolero rhythm)

1455
CD Cut 11 - 'Sparkle Paradise'
Marcia Ball
Gatorhythms BMI
Rounder CD 3131 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide through Rounder: www.rounder.com )
Marcia Ball - 'Blue House'
Four minute excerpt
(Marcia plays piano and sings of being 17 and being drawn to a juke joint by the river with Paul Klemperer soloing on tenor sax and Mambo John Treanor laying down a huge beat on his drum kit)

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans