catalogue

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

HEART LIKE A LEVEE (MERGE)

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - HEART LIKE A LEVEE 100254
format:
1 CD
release:
07.10.2016
label:
MERGE
item ID:
100254
barcode:
0673855057521
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 Durham, NC
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. SIDE A
  • 1.2. BILOXI
  • 1.3. TELL HER I'M JUST DANCING
  • 1.4. HEART LIKE A LEVEE
  • 1.5. LIKE A MIRROR LOVES A HAMMER
  • 1.6. SMOKY'S SONG
  • 1.7. CRACKED WINDSHIELD
  • 1.8. AS THE CROW FLIES
  • 1.9. HAPPY DAY (SISTER MY SISTER)
  • 1.10. SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT
  • 1.11. ACE OF CUPS
  • 1.12. HIGHLAND GRACE