Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like A Levee [Indie Exclusive CD With Bonus CD]

Limited to 2,000 world-wide All physical and digital formats to be released on 10/7. New full-length titled Heart Like a Levee with 8-song bonus CD titled Vestapol included, which is shrink-wrapped to the back of the CD and includes its own artwork. Fold out poster icluded.

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

Tracklist:

1. Biloxi
2. Tell Her I'm Just Dancing
3. Heart Like a Levee
4. Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer
5. Smoky's Song
6. Cracked Windshield
7. As the Crow Flies
8. Happy Day (Sister My Sister)
9. Say It Like You Mean It 1
10. Ace of Cups 1
11. Highland Grace 1
12. Blackeyed Boy 1
13. After the Colors 1
14. Together's Just a Word 1
15. Living Above the Waterline 1
16. Strawberry Girl Reel 1
17. Little Rain 1
18. John the Gun 1
19. Vestapol (Is Where I'm Bound)

*** Indie Exclusive ***
UPC: 673855057507
Label: MERGE RECORDS
Release Date: 10.7.16
Format: CD