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Hiss Golden Messenger – Devotion: Songs About Rivers & Spirits & Children (4-CD Box Set)

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$ 56.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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M.C. Taylor recorded *Bad Debt* alone in his living room during one of the harder stretches of his life, and that rawness became the foundation everything else was built on. The three albums collected here trace the arc from that intimate, confessional beginning through the richer, band-driven sound of *Poor Moon* and *Haw*, documenting a songwriter finding his footing and his people in real time.

This limited-edition deluxe 4-CD box set includes remastered reissues of three classic Hiss Golden Messenger albums-Bad Debt, Poor Moon, and Haw-plus Virgo Fool, a bonus album of Hiss rarities available physically only with this collection. The iconographic artwork for each individual album as well as the box set and poster were designed in close collaboration between M.C. Taylor and artist Sam Smith to shed new light on this vital chapter in the Hiss Golden Messenger story. Each reissue features newly penned liner notes by Amanda Petrusich (The New Yorker), with John Mulvey (Uncut, MOJO) providing the essay for Virgo Fool.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Balthazar's Song
2. No Lord Is Free
3. Bad Debt
4. O Little Light
5. Straw Man Red Sun River Gold
6. Far Bright Star
7. The Serpent Is Kind (Compared To Man)
8. Call Him Daylight
9. Jesus Shot Me In The Head
10. Super Blue (Two Days Clean)
11. Roll River Roll
12. Drum

Disc 2

1. Blue Country Mystic
2. Call Him Daylight
3. Drummer Down
4. Under All The Land
5. Westering
6. Pittsboro Farewell (Two Monarchs)
7. Super Blue (Two Days Clean)
8. Jesus Shot Me In The Head
9. O Little Light
10. A Working Man Can't Make It No Way
11. Dreamwood
12. Balthazar's Song

Disc 3

1. Red Rose Nantahala
2. Sufferer (Love My Conqueror)
3. I've Got A Name For The Newborn Child
4. Hat Of Rain
5. Devotion
6. The Serpent Is Kind (Compared To Man)
7. Sweet As John Hurt
8. Cheerwine Easter
9. Hark Maker (Glory Rag)
10. Busted Note
11. What Shall Be (Shall Be Enough)

Disc 4

1. Rock Holy
2. Black Country Woman
3. Joyce & Joel
4. Lion/Lamb
5. Father Sky
6. Issa
7. Back To The River Again
8. Tell Everyone
9. Karen's Blues
10. The Revenant
11. Hard Promises

UPC: 673855065526
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 11.16.18
Format: CD