Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon - VINYL LP

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. Matching up kindred spirits and mutual influences, this volume of Three Lobed Recording's Parallelogram series collects 2015 recordings from Hiss Golden Messenger and Michael Chapman. Both M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) and Michael Chapman have consistently won praise for possessing a certain songwriting prowess and earnest delivery. This LP only helps both artists cement their reputations. He Parallelogram collection originated in the particular magic that comes from finding the InchrightInch musical pairing. We've all experienced the perfect song at the perfect time and know how electrifying it can be. The set and setting that combine to make those jukebox choices, mix tapes, or playlists really work can be so hard to define, but easy to identify once they are out there in the wild. Part of the fun for Three Lobed Recordings has always been trying to divine the alchemy of pairings that work to our ears. Album Tracks 1. I Wish I Had Not Said That 2. Still Life Blues 3. Smoke Rings 4. Another Story 5. The Mallard 6. Vanity and Pride 7. Stockport Monday (Homage Tom Rush)

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.