Hiss Golden Messenger is North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. Taylor, in partnership with multi-instrumentalist and recordist Scott Hirsch, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The pair have been playing music together for nearly two decades. Poor Moon is the fourth proper Hiss Golden Messenger release, and serves as the best summation thus far of Taylor’s lone journeys through the dark night of the soul. “God is good, and it’s understood,” he sings. “But he moves in mysterious ways.”
Taylor and Hirsch are clear that they draw inspiration from a variety of sources, including the blue-collar mysticism of Ronnie Lane and Richard & Linda Thompson; the high haunted atmospheres of John Martyn and Talk Talk; and American vernacular music writ large (from Archie Brownlee to the Staple Singers; Charlie Poole to Merle Haggard). Yet for all that, Poor Moon is a singular vision, one that only two companions could have made after twenty years of music-making, revelry, and repent.
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PRIZING
A pair of tickets to see Hiss Golden Messenger at the Biltmore Cabaret on November 7, 2014 at 8 p.m.
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CONTEST CLOSING TIME
Contest closes November 5, 2014 – Winner will be contacted upon closing time.
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SKILL TESTING QUESTION
Which town is Hiss Golden Messenger from? For a hint, go here: http://www.biltmorecabaret.com/node/848
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