Hiss Golden Messenger - Haw - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hiss Golden Messenger - I'm People. The brand-new album from Hiss Golden Messenger and the first with Chrysalis Records. I'm People is a vivid, deeply human album born from a period of rupture, renewal, and vast American wandering. Written across Bolinas, the North Carolina Piedmont, and a Santa Fe motel room, the record traces the artist's search for clarity through landscapes both external and internal. These songs move through heartbreak, aging, fatherhood, desire, disillusionment, and the hard-won hope that remains after the spirit has been scraped bare. Produced with Josh Kaufman at Dreamland, a decommissioned church outside Woodstock, the album carries the warmth of musicians playing live in a circle, stained-glass light filtering across guitars, drums, and upright bass. Contributions from Bruce Hornsby, Sam Beam, Marcus King, Sara Watkins, Amy Helm, Eric D. Johnson, and members of Dawes enrich a sound world that feels immediate, vulnerable, and fully alive. InchI'm People is an intensely human record, and so one that needed to feel immediate, vulnerable, and fully dancing; something you could touch, sing along to, know about, recognize, relate with. I know what the record is to me and I bet it's not so dissimilar from what it's about to you, at least in the broad strokes The heartbreak and exhilaration, the absolute black comedy of being a person on this razor's edge that is America circa 2025. What other choice do we have than to be hopeful?Inch - MC Taylor on I'm People. Hiss Golden Messenger is a Grammy nominated artist based in North Carolina, with multiple Album Of The Year and Best Americana Album awards, reaching #2 in the Americana Charts and performances and tours across the world, including the UK and Europe + performances on US TV; Late Night With Seth Myers. Album Tracks 1. In the Middle of It 2. 3. Who You Gonna Run To? 4. 5. Sha

2021 . Quietly Blowing It is an intimate and introspective offering that finds M.C. Taylor ruminating on themes of growing up, alienation, obligation, hope, purpose, family, class, self-discovery, healing, and rebuilding, fashioned with impressionistic tones. He says the record Inchfeels like the most personal album that I've made because I'm not trying to explain anything to anyone except myself.Inch Taylor reckons with these turbulent times in deeply personal terms and seeks to inspire listeners to do the same. Musically, the new songs are steeped in gospel, Southern soul, indie folk, and alt-country with tinges of blues, rock, and jazz influences running throughout. Highlights include the minimalist R&B of InchIt Will If We Let It,Inch the rolling country groove of InchThe Great Mystifier,Inch and the heartfelt, smoky lament of InchPainting HousesInch (co-written with Gregory Alan Isakov). Quietly Blowing It features special guests that include Griffin and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Zach Williams of The Lone Bellow, Nashville guitar great Buddy Miller, and producer/musician Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman. Album Tracks 1. Way Back in the Way Back 2. The Great Mystifier 3. Mighty Dollar 4. Quietly Blowing It 5. It Will If We Let It 6. Hardlytown 7. If It Comes in the Morning 8. Glory Strums (Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner) 9. Painting Houses 10. Angels in the Headlights 11. Sanctuary

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? 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 7. As the Crow Flies 8. Happy Day (Sister My Sister) 9. Say It Like You Mean It 10. Ace of Cups 11. Highland Grace 1. Blackeyed Boy 2. After the Colors 3. Together's Just a Word 4. Living Above the Waterline 5. Strawberry Girl Reel 6. Little Rain 7. John the Gun 8. Vestapol (Is Where I'm Bound)