Hiss Golden Messenger
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Biography
[Edit]A vehicle for singer/songwriter Michael Taylor (M.C. Taylor) and multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Scott Hirsch, Hiss Golden Messenger's fusion of classic rock, folk-pop, and sparse blues in various guises has seen Taylor compared to the likes of lo-fi legends Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Bill Callahan. Born and raised in Southern California, Taylor was inspired to pick up the guitar by his musician father, who had previously played in the Settlers, a pop outfit that once opened for John Denver. His first musical outing was with Scott Hirsch in the hardcore punk band Ex-Ignota. But the influences of the Beatles, the Byrds, and Buffalo Springfield proved too strong to ignore. He began writing his own songs, and in his late teens he moved to San Francisco, where he fronted the country-rock outfit the Court and Spark, who released four critically acclaimed albums before disbanding in 2007.
After relocating to North Carolina, Taylor and Hirsch began to record material under the alias of Hiss Golden Messenger, but Taylor performed entirely solo with just an acoustic guitar for accompaniment when it came to playing live. Following the release of albums Country Hai East Cotton and the vinyl-only Root Work through their Heaven and Earth Magic Recording Company, they signed a deal with U.K. label Black Maps, which distributed Hiss Golden Messenger's international debut, the nine-track acoustic mini-album Bad Debt, in 2010.
In 2011, the boutique label Paradise of Bachelors did a very limited LP run of Poor Moon, which sold out almost instantly. The pair also released Lord I Love the Rain on their own label. Tompkins Square re-released Poor Moon in 2012 as well as the single "Jesus Shot Me in the Head" b/w "Jesus Dub." A live, digital-only recording entitled Plowed: Live in Bovina was self-released that same year. Haw, a new studio recording by Hiss Golden Messenger, was issued by Light in the Attic in 2013.
Taylor has also been a college lecturer specializing in folklore, is responsible for the blog The Old Straight Track, and has helped edit a music education curriculum for Quincy Jones. A reissue of Bad Debt, HGM's lost first recording (a very limited edition to begin with, its remaining copies were destroyed in the PIAS warehouse fire), saw reissue by Paradise of Bachelors with bonus and unreleased material. Taylor signed to Merge Records in January 2014. Hiss Golden Messenger's debut for the label was entitled Lateness of Dancers and issued in September. Southern Grammar, a three-track EP titled for a track from the previous album, included a leftover from those sessions and another otherwise orphan track. It was released in February of 2015. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi
Title: Brother, Do You Know the Road? - SIngle
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: World Music, Alternative, Folk
Title: Devotion: Songs About Rivers And Spirits And Children
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Alternative Country, Indie
Title: O Come All Ye Faithful
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country Rock, Alternative, Indie, Folk
Title: Lateness of Dancers
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Folk
Title: Southern Grammar - Single
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Folk
Title: Country Hai East Cotton
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Indie, Folk
Title: Poor Moon
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Bad Debt
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Quietly Blowing It
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Indie, Folk
Title: Terms Of Surrender
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Folk Rock, Alternative Country, Indie
Title: Watching the Wires - Single
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Hiss Golden Messenger Meets Spacebomb - Single
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Alternative
Title: Haw
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Alternative Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Standing in the Doorway - Single
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Everybody Needs Somebody - Single
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Genre: Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Jump For Joy
Artist: Hiss Golden Messenger
Title: Parallelogram
Artist: Michael Chapman, Hiss Golden Messenger
Collections
Title: Uncut: Homeward Bound 21st Century Troubadours
Genre: Acoustic
Title: Merge Records Fall Sampler 2014
Genre: Indie
Title: Classic Rock Presents The Best Of 2014
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Punk Rock
Title: Uncut: Time Has Told Me
Genre: Rock, World Music, Indie, Folk
Title: Uncut The Best Of 2014
Title: Mojo Presents Physical Graffiti Redrawn
Genre: Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: Merge Records Spring Sampler 2019
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: Mojo Presents: The New Thunder Revue
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: Indie Folk Energy 2020 (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Folk
Title: Going To Georgia
Genre: Alternative, Indie
Title: 100 Greatest Indie Folk (CD2)
Genre: Power Pop, Post Punk, World Music, Country, Pop, Alternative, Folk
Title: Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casa (CD1)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Autumn Rock Fest (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Rebel Rock Box (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Raise Your Flag Rock World's Fest (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Glad To Be Here (Feat. Brent Cobb)
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Rock Songs Hits Of March (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: I Prefer Rock (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: Folksy Christmas 2022 (CD1)
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Featuring albums
Title: Folk It: New Folk, Alternative, Indie Roots Rock
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist