“It’s cradle to the grave, so be good to each other,” Taylor encourages his flock in the opening bars of Hardlytown, before wrestling with the notion that what you get out of life might not match what you put in. Hope continues to shine forth from these gentle, spiritual compositions. It all fades away to the lonely sound of cicadas buzzing in the sultry night air. Warm blues phrases unwind with indolent grace from Miller’s guitar, abetted by Brevan Hampden’s decorative percussion and brushes kissing softly against snare skin.
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The title track is a majestic high point, faintly reminiscent of the equally radiant Cracked Windshield from Heart Like A Levee, as Taylor solemnly admires a “big pink sun over Hollywood”. The Great Mystifier is a soulful country shuffle nodding to the Allman Brothers, fluid lead guitar lines shrouded in phase winding joyously around a howling harmonica solo, Taylor espousing sagely “practise resurrection, take the blame, learn the lesson/ say you’re sorry, love ain’t a weapon”. The latter felt like a record forged from pain, and there’s plenty here too, as Taylor writes about work and class, grief, self-doubt, an America at war with itself and a looming climate emergency, yet always he seeks out the light. The album’s clement tone is familiar from 2016 career-high Heart Like A Levee and 2019’s Grammy-nominated Terms Of Surrender. It all ends in a cloud of oscillating delay. A gathering sax swell heralds a stirring ascent around the refrain “Up with the mountains, down with the system” before choice licks wrung from simmering valve amps join the party. Pre-order it here.From the unhurried C/F/G chord progression that introduces Way Back In The Way Back, we’re ushered into a world of tranquility, Taylor reassuring “don’t be afraid, we’ll be fine in the morning”. Quietly Blowing It is out 6/25 on Merge Records. Hiss Golden Messenger has also announced a big winter tour check out the video and the dates below.ġ2/07 – Philadelphia, PA World Cafe LiveĢ/23-24 – Portland, OR Mississippi Studiosģ/02 – Salt Lake City, UT The Commonwealth Roomģ/10 – Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe In a press release, Taylor says, “‘Glory Strums’ was written in the chaotic green spring of 2020 as a hymn to finding the places and spaces that make us human.” The song has a video in which director, a singer-songwriter himself, looks dapper while working on his fitness. “Glory Strums” is a pretty little acoustic amble of a song. We’ve already posted the early tracks “ Sanctuary,” “ If It Comes In The Morning,” and “ Hardlytown.” Today, they’ve shared a new track called “Glory Strums (Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner).” The follow-up to 2019’s Terms Of Surrender features contributors like Anaïs Mitchell, Dawes’ Griffin and Taylor Goldsmith, and Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman. In any case, Hiss Golden Messenger will release the new album Quietly Blowing It. So I will take this opportunity to ask: Is there some big secret bond between Hiss Golden Messenger and people who work as educators? Are they a teacher-culture band? I was at the show with a friend who happens to be a teacher, but when I asked him if Hiss Golden Messenger were just some kind of big band among teachers, he didn’t know. Before one song, Taylor asked how many teachers were in the audience that night, and something like half the crowd cheered. Taylor’s soft, reassuring Americana project Hiss Golden Messenger. A few months before the pandemic started, I went to see M.C.
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