![]() Country:US: Released:Jun 25, 2021: Genre. Label:Merge Records MRG755: Format: CD, Album. In that regard, Hiss Golden Messenger gets out of its own way, providing the kind of music to lift the spirits of people still challenged by a world ruled by the “Mighty Dollar.” It may not be fair that the “poor man loses and the rich man wins,” but now we have a song with a groove to sing on the way to the protest. Hiss Golden Messenger Quietly Blowing It. Taylor’s approach to Americana mixes traditional folk rock a la the 70’s, with smatterings of R&B, gospel, blues, and country, like the touch of honky tonk piano in the ballad “Angels In the Morning.” Throughout Quietly Blowing It, relies on a trick practiced by the likes of Jackson Browne and Neil Young, you can sing about the saddest of the sad feelings and folk will sing along and even dance if you keep the melody bright, and the tempo up. Hiss Golden Messenger has been a vehicle for Taylor’s music since the singer joined up with Scott Hirsh in ‘07, who shows up here playing lap steel guitar, and helping out with the mixes. ![]() Quietly Blowing It is MC Taylor and his masterly musical sidekicks looking for certainty in the maddening swirl, surveying the wreckage of the wild fires, political fury, racial injustice and pandemic horror and singing about it. In “It Will If We Let It” he takes comfort in the fact that we have each other, we are “not alone.” Life is challenging, he sings in “Hardlytown,” where “the world feels broken,” but in “If It Comes In the Morning,” he attempts optimism in the “hope (that) hope is contagious.” Hiss Golden Messenger/Quietly Blowing It/MergeFour out of Five Stars Videos by American Songwriter There’s a reason why Hiss Golden Messenger has emerged as one of the more prominent buzz bands. That’s a neat synopsis of the latest in a long line of stately, sad, hopeful Hiss Golden Messenger records. Like the 2019 release, Terms of Surrender, which found Taylor dealing with grief following the death of his father and the ongoing challenge of depression, the Americana artist allows his music to work as therapy. “Feeling bad, feeling blue,” he sings, acknowledging that “I know it feels like hell now/‘Til we get to the otherside,” he wants to offer solace and security but “I can’t get out of my own mind.” The best he can do is “sing about it,” and given the warm gospel vibe in the chorus of voices that may just prove to be enough. Hiss Golden Messenger, gets that the world is a mess right now. Taylor, the artist behind Hiss Golden Messenger, began writing the songs for Quietly Blowing It, he was, in his own words, looking for peace.Many of us can relate to his quest. ![]() On the current single from his new album, “Sanctuary,” singer/songwriter MC Taylor, a.k.a. ![]()
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