Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad Debt - VINYL LP
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M.C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums Haw (2013) and Poor Moon (2011) direct to a portable cassette recorder at the kitchen table of his pine-entwined home in rural Piedmont, NC in 2010. It was the dead of winter and the pit of the financial crisis, a moment when the dire ramifications of debt - in it's economic, political, and personal senses - had assumed a rank immediacy and terror for many working people around the world, not least of all in the American South. Taylor, his one-year old boy Elijah sleeping in the next room, was compelled to chart the sacred valences of debt, doubt, and family in fresh ways, in the process stripping bare and reinventing his songwriting idiom.
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M.C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums Haw (2013) and Poor Moon (2011) direct to a portable cassette recorder at the kitchen table of his pine-entwined home in rural Piedmont, NC in 2010. It was the dead of winter and the pit of the financial crisis, a moment when the dire ramifications of debt - in it's economic, political, and personal senses - had assumed a rank immediacy and terror for many working people around the world, not least of all in the American South. Taylor, his one-year old boy Elijah sleeping in the next room, was compelled to chart the sacred valences of debt, doubt, and family in fresh ways, in the process stripping bare and reinventing his songwriting idiom.
Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Hiss Golden Messenger return on Merge Records in October 2016 with their sixth full-length album Heart Like a Levee. The eleven songs on Heart Like a Levee are immediate, dealing with themes that include leaving and returning, belief and trust, guilt, honesty, and life on the road. Hiss Golden Messenger creative force M.C. Taylor says, InchI wrote these songs during a time of transition and doubt. The process was raw, but also joyous. I spent a lot of time with these words and chords in all types of weather. In the end I learned more about myself making this record than any in the past, and that's one important way for me to gauge whether an album was worth making. I want to make records that feel both minor- and major-key at the same time; maybe 'bittersweet' is a good word for it. Life is simultaneously happy and sad at once, and that's how I want my records to feel. I think that's how Heart Like a Levee feels.Inch The highly anticipated was self-produced by Taylor and Bradley Cook and recorded in Durham, NC, with Taylor's close-knit North Carolina collaborators brothers Phil and Bradley Cook on piano and bass, respectively;Matt McCaughan on drums; Tift Merritt and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig on backing vocals; and Matt Douglas and Michael Lewis on horns. Album Tracks 1. Biloxi 2. Tell Her I'm Just Dancing 3. Heart Like a Levee 4. Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer 5. Smoky's Song 6. Cracked Windshield 1. As the Crow Flies 8. Happy Day (Sister My Sister) 3. Say It Like You Mean It 10. Ace of Cups Hung Low Band 5. Highland Grace
Vinyl LP pressing housed in a heavyweight jacket with a debossed cover. 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.
Vinyl LP pressing housed in a heavyweight jacket with a debossed cover. 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 Poor Moon as well as Virgo Fool, a bonus album of Hiss rarities physically available only with the box set.
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