Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee (LP Vinyl)
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MC Taylor wrote *Heart Like A Levee* during a period when Hiss Golden Messenger was crossing over from beloved underground secret to something larger, and the tension of that moment is audible in every groove. Recorded with his core collaborators, the album pulls from country soul, gospel, and the kind of highway spirituality that runs through the best of American roots music. On two LPs, the songs have the room they need to breathe.
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? --M.C. Taylor
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 673855057514
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 10.7.16
Format: LP Vinyl