Eliza Gilkyson的《天堂旅馆》

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Eliza Gilkyson -《Paradise Hotel》




中文名称：Paradise Hotel
资源类型：MP3!
发行时间：2005年08月09日
专辑歌手：Eliza Gilkyson
地区：美国
语言：英语
简介：


专辑名称： Paradise Hotel
专辑歌手： Eliza Gilkyson
发行日期： 2005.08.09
专辑语种： 英语
专辑类型： Folk-Rock
唱片公司： Red House

个人简介:
Eliza Gilkyson拥有很好的音乐环境，她的父亲Terry Gilkyson是三、四十年代很有名的民谣歌手，在她年轻的时候，就在她爸爸的唱片中献声，并且为迪士尼演唱过动画主题曲。她的兄长是他音乐上的伙伴，后来成为她的演出乐手。从小的音乐培养和民谣带给她的熏陶，使她拥有了对民谣深刻的理解力和表达力，并凭借04年的唱片Land of Milk and Honey获得了葛莱美奖的提名。

Warm reflections, strong convictions, and spiritual grace inform the veteran Texas-based troubadour Eliza Gilkyson‘s latest, Paradise Hotel. Offerings are even more eclectic than usual, with the Spanish-sung border balladry of "Bellarosa," a surprise cover of World Party‘s "Is It Like Today," and the hymn-like original "Requiem" extending Gilkyson‘s interpretive range. She sticks closer to straightforward country on "Calm Before the Storm" (with vocal harmony from Shawn Colvin) and the album-opening "Borderline," while returning to her folk roots on "Jedidiah 1777" and the title track (though the latter finds her humming a coda that evokes Bach or Procol Harum, depending on the listener‘s frame of reference). The album‘s most powerful track, "Man of God," represents Gilkyson‘s strongest political statement to date, an indictment of religious hypocrisy that uses Christianity to justify war, with Colvin, Marcia Ball, Slaid Cleaves, and Ray Wylie Hubbard among those offering chorus support.

Paradise Hotel is Eliza Gilkyson‘s fourth release on the Red House label and follows her 2004 Grammy nominated and critically lauded "Land of Milk and Honey." Her most personal album to date, it features songs that artfully reveal the roots of her progressive patriotism, comment on the direction our world is headed and peel back the thin layers obscuring the heart of what matters in these complex times.

One of the CD‘s most powerful tracks, "Jedidiah 1777," tells of Gilkyson‘s ancestral grandfather, Brigadier General Jedidiah Huntington, who fought alongside George Washington in the Revolutionary War. Based on a stirring collection of actual correspondence sent by General Huntington from the battlefield to his father and brothers (also enlisted in the army and equally committed to the cause), the song directly quotes the letters in its lyrics.

Shifting her focus from past to present, the song "Man of God" is a scathing indictment of the current administration‘s use of religion to manipulate the public. The song is driven by her brother Tony Gilkyson‘s (of L.A. punk band "X") rattlesnake of a guitar solo and a chorus of vocal support from an all-star Austin cast including Ray Wylie Hubbard, Slaid Cleaves, Marcia Ball, Shawn Colvin, Anna Egge, Jeff Plankenhorn and others.

The title track, "Paradise Hotel," is an atmospheric journey down the winding roads of human experience led by Mike Hardwick‘s haunting guitar. Other highlights include an infectious cover of World Party‘s "Is It Like Today," a honky-tonk duet with Shawn Colvin on "Calm Before The Storm," and "Requiem," a soothing invocation of compassion that was written in response to the 2004 tsunami devastation.


专辑曲目：

01. Borderline
02. Paradise Hotel
03. Man Of God
04. Jedidiah 1777
05. Bellarosa
06. Think About You
07. Is It Like Today
08. Calm Before The Storm
09. Requiem
10. When You Walk On



Paradise Hotel
天堂旅馆

sailing cross the seas
在海上航行
pursuing sorry ships don't know they're sinking
寻找失踪的船只却不知它们已经沉没
holding on until all hope is gone
一直坚持直到所有希望都破灭
focusing my eyes on distant stars so far away they're blinking
看着远处闪烁的星星
on and off and on and off and on
一直不停的闪烁
but the bird in my hand is promising paradise
可是我心里的那个人允诺会有天堂

venture forth from cave
（走出洞穴）开始冒险
to conquer everything that's moving
去征服一切
pleasure never really lasting very long
快乐从来不会持续的很长
roller coaster ride the lows the highs
毫无目的徜徉在平原高山上
feels like you're grooving
似乎你很享受
though it's on and off and on and off and on
尽管一切都在不停的继续
and the bird in my hand is promising paradise
我心里的那个人允诺会有天堂
all the actors in your play will do their part
戏剧里的演员们都在扮演着各自的角色
and go their way
or dance as long as you will pay
只要你付钱，他们就不会停止舞蹈
but she will never fly away
但她却不会离去
man behind the curtain
幕后的那个人
pulls the levers for the sheep
操纵着这些驯服的人们
for me tonight there'll be no sleep until the dawn
我今夜将无眠到天亮
neon sign from paradise hotel across the street
对街天堂旅馆的霓虹标志
is blinking on and off and on and off and on
一直不停的闪烁
and the bird in my hand is promising paradise
心里的那个人允诺会有天堂

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