Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad Debt - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The remastered reissue of the classic Hiss Golden Messenger album features brand-new artwork designed in close collaboration between M.C. Taylor and artist Sam Smith, along with newly penned liner notes by Amanda Petrusich (The New Yorker). This is part of the limited-edition deluxe Hiss box set titled Devotion Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children which also includes remastered reissues of Bad Debt and Haw as well as Virgo Fool, a bonus album of Hiss rarities physically available only with the box set.

In M.C. Taylor's own words The writing of the songs that became Heart Like a Levee started in a hotel room in Washington, DC, in January of 2015 during a powerful storm that darkened the East Coast. At that time I was feeling-more acutely than I had ever felt before-wrenched apart by my responsibilities to my family and to my music. Forgetting, momentarily, that for me, each exists only with the other. How could I forget? Though maybe my lapse was reasonable I had just quit my job, the most recent and last, in a series of dead-end gigs stretching back 20 years, with the vow that my children would understand their father as a man in love with his world and the inventor of his own days. They would be rare in that regard. And then-driven by monthly bills and pure fear-I left for another tour, carrying a load of guilt that I could just barely lift. But in that snowy hotel room I found the refrain that became my compass  I was a dreamer, babe, when I set out on the road; but did I say I could find my way home?

James MacMillan - Symphony 3 / Confession of Isobel Gowdie [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/22/2005