Paradise Hotel

Paradise Hotel Artist: Eliza Gilkyson
Label: Red House
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 033651018728
EAN: 0033651018728
ASIN: B0009Y262M


Release Date: 2005-08-09

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Tracks:

  1. Borderline
  2. Paradise Hotel
  3. Man Of God
  4. Jedidiah 1777
  5. Bellarosa
  6. Think About You
  7. Is It Like Today
  8. Calm Before The Storm
  9. Requiem
  10. When You Walk On

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Talented But Tedious.......2007-01-28

Eliza Gilkyson sings in a weary and breathy croak that is sometimes engaging, but frequently tiresome. While I appreciate her sincerity, and also the virtuosity of the band members, the songwriting is the glaring weakness. While the poetry occasionally rises above the banal, the music is rarely compelling. In the final analysis, I found a modicum of talent in Eliza and her musicians, but nothing that makes me want to listen to any of this more than a few times.

5 out of 5 stars Paradise Hotel.......2006-11-10

I could not tell by the one listening selection ("Requiem")that the recording would be more of a country folk style, but I am now a big fan of Eliza's.
Upbeat, rich recording. Strong, beautiful lyrics.
Generally, a lovely discovery.

4 out of 5 stars Man of God........2006-10-25

The record would deserve five stars, but "Man of God" is only a political rant with no base upon reality. The U.S.A. is in a war that Ms. Gilkyson may not like, but at least from our part it is not religious.

5 out of 5 stars Spiritual maturity.......2006-07-17

On the evidence of "Paradise Hotel" alone, Eliza Gilkyson could be our most spiritually mature songwriter. Her words lament the drive to plunder and exploit, without wasting energy on self-absorbed emotionalism, and her sensibility lives in the here and now. She knows that the best parables are images ("he who is without sin, let him cast the first stone"), and that grace and redemption are always within our grasp -- that they cannot be stolen, only forfeited. Her songs become the mistress of our hearing, for weeks. And, like her, what she says is ageless.

5 out of 5 stars Eliza hits her stride again in style.......2006-05-06

After a bit of a dip with her last CD ("Land of milk and honey") in terms of accessibility and range of songs covered, this CD sees Eliza definitely back at the top of her game. The music is more fuller and varied than prior CDs (witness the opening "Borderline" which almost comes on as AM in tone and the Hispanic flavoured and Spanish sung "Bellarosa"). On political themes, she finally nails the Bush/Iraq issue (a matter she has long been vocal on) in spot on fashion with "Man of God" capturing the neo-con and christianity themes beautifully, and this contrasts with the subsequent "Jedidiah 1777" drawn from contemporary diaries of a US citizen soldier fighting in the War of Indepednece.

However as always Eliza really hits her stride with her well observed songs on love and life, my personal favourites "Think about You" and "Calm before the storm" matching anything on my prior favourite CD "Hard times in Babylon".

I cannot wait to see her on this form during the forthcoming UK tour later this month (May 2006).

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