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Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like A Levee 2LP

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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

01 Biloxi
02 Tell Her I'm Just Dancing
03 Heart Like a Levee
04 Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer
05 Smoky's Song
06 Cracked Windshield
01 As the Crow Flies
02 Happy Day (Sister My Sister)
03 Say It Like You Mean It
04 Ace of Cups
05 Highland Grace

01 Blackeyed Boy
02 After the Colors
03 Together's Just a Word
04 Living Above the Waterline
05 Strawberry Girl Reel
01 Little Rain
02 John the Gun
03 Vestapol (Is Where I'm Bound)

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