hypersongs

Paradise Hotel

A 2005 Red House album with "Requiem" and a World Party cover.
Eliza Gilkyson, 2005

The catalog number is RHR CD 187. AllMusic, per a search summary, gives Congress House Studio in Austin and a running time of 40:08; the producer is unresolved, since a library record credited Mark Hallman but looked mismatched. SoundStage names Tony Gilkyson and Mike Hardwick on guitar and Ray Bonneville on harmonica. Tracks confirmed by name are "Paradise Hotel", "Borderline", "Calm Before the Storm", "Requiem", "Man of God", "Jedidiah 1777", "Is It Like Today" (a World Party cover), "Think About You" and the closer "When You Walk On"; we have no verified sequence. PopMatters' Roger Holland gave it 8 of 10 and called it her most accomplished and consistent work to date, and SoundStage wrote that she is an essential American songwriter who keeps getting better.

Track listing

  1. Borderline2:43
  2. Paradise Hotel4:06
  3. Man of God4:27
  4. Jedidiah 17773:52
  5. Bellarosa4:46
  6. Think About You3:23
  7. Is It Like Today5:49
  8. Calm Before the Storm3:50
  9. Requiem3:54
  10. When You Walk On3:20

More from Eliza Gilkyson

Legends Of Rainmaker (1989), Redemption Road (1997), Misfits (1999), Hard Times In Babylon (2000), Lost and Found (2002), Land Of Milk And Honey (2004), Your Town Tonight (2007), Beautiful World (2008), The Nocturne Diaries (2014), Secularia (2018), 2020 (2020), Songs From The River Wind (2021), Home (2023)

Sources

  1. Eliza Gilkyson, Paradise Hotel, PopMatters (2005-08-10)
  2. Eliza Gilkyson, Paradise Hotel, SoundStage (2005)