Music
Timeless music with folk and blues roots
About my Music
In her 15 years of performing, Eliza has worked and played with Kevin Locke, Chuck Suchy, Jami Lynn, Billy Talbot (Crazy Horse), Charlie Parr, and Channy Leanaugh (of Roma di Luna & Polica), just to name a few. Other highlights include performances at SXSW, Red Ants Pants, CMJ, and Sioux River Folk Fest. Her song “Let There Be Light,” was recently featured on All Songs Considered.
Eliza currently tours.
Eliza Blue’s music radiates a rare, ethereal beauty. Her earthy voice is almost inadvertently the dominant component of her songs, its delicacy and vulnerability so elegant as to be irresistibly charming. Influenced by the works of Gillian Welch and Leonard Cohen, the classically trained Blue enhances the bounty of her natural gifts with plaintive, poetic songwriting and simple instrumentation, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, banjo, and violin in a manner that hearkens to Appalachia.
– Jeff Gage, Minneapolis City Pages
Selected Discography
The Grass Widow: Rough Drafts
w/Jon Bakken, self-released, 2023. EP
South Dakota, 1st of May
Produced by Billy Talbot, self-released, 2018 LP
The Road Home
Self released, 2010. LP
Screen Doors & Back Doors
Lucky Micah Records, 2007. LP
Music Video Gallery
Musical Collaborations
The Grass Widow
Eliza is currently working on a folk opera with fellow Dakota musician Jon Bakken, based on a series of poems written during her first year living and working on grasslands
Other Musical Collaborations
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