Eliza Gilkyson is a twice Grammy-nominated (2006/2014) singer-songwriter and activist who is one of
the most respected musicians in Folk, Roots and Americana circles. Her songs have been covered by
Joan Baez, Bob Geldof, Chris Smither, the world renowned Conspirare Choir, Tom Rush and Rosanne
Cash and have appeared in films, PBS specials and on primetime TV. A member of the Austin Music
Hall of Fame, and an inductee into the Austin Songwriter Hall of Fame, she has won countless Folk
Alliance and Austin Music awards, including 2014’s Songwriter of the Year and the “Song of the Year”
Award at the Folk Alliance International Conference in 2021.

Eliza’s current release Dark Ages, is a surprisingly upbeat collection of songs, although she pulls no
punches in terms of the times in which we find ourselves and her sentiments regarding the current
dismantling of the US constitution by the newly elected president. Working in collaboration with Don
Richmond, her producer/accompanist for the last two records, and calling on some of her Austin
compadres and fellow New Mexicans to join her, the album showcases Eliza in her strongest and most
compelling voice. She remains true to the convictions and sensibilities for which she is known,
covering the wide range of human experience from political to personal, following the threads of
darkness and light, reminding us of the hope and beauty still to be found even in the frightening
scenarios of today’s current events. Honest, stark, musically moving and stubbornly hopeful, “Dark
Ages” is a roadmap and a soundtrack for our time.

Drawing on elements of folk, country and Americana, Gilkyson, like contemporaries
Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, demonstrates that the craft of
songwriting, intelligent and lasting, is ultimately in the hands of those who can not only
turn out a compelling second album, but five, or ten, or with this Grammy-nominated performer, over twenty. ~ Direct Current Music