Tom Russell and Eliza Gilkyson April 19, 2007

"Folk icons of the Southwest"

Tonight's show features two of Texas's finest songwriters. Tom Russell came from L.A. but now lives in El Paso. He's equally at home with big historical story songs and personal laments with his own kind of sexy gloom. He's written top country hits ("Outbound Plane") and incredibly complex songs that are like perfectly crafted short stories ("Touch of Evil"). No Depression calls Austin's Eliza Gilkyson "an exquisite weaver of story songs that strike at the heart of personal experience." Courageous, sometimes political, and always powerful, the songs of Eliza Gilkyson are edgy, passionate creations that ought to appeal to any Lucinda Williams fan in a big way (and Gilkyson was around before Lucinda was). She's also an L.A.-to-Texas transplant; her father, Hollywood songwriter Terry Gilkyson, composed "Song of the Wild Goose."

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