![]() Fare thee well, John Prine, AKA Handsome Johnny, a speaker of truth if ever there was one.” M.C. The song ‘Sanctuary’ is one small piece of my own personal reckoning with what it feels like to search for some kind of shelter in the storm. ‘We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men,’ says the poet Wendell Berry. “ Over the past year, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we care for ourselves and each other, and how hard it is to live truthfully in a world that is so tangled. Taylor. The KidEthnic-directed music video features Taylor singing of reconciliation and hope, along with some beautiful young faces. The song was written and produced by bandleader/songwriter M.C. “I know that there’s good in me / Why’s it such a hard time?” he sings in the closing lines of the driving, hymnal “Glory Strums (Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner).” In these songs that beg to be heard communally, Taylor keeps searching for the good, for the humanity, always with the promise that tomorrow is a new day.Before we dive in, I should congratulate Hiss Golden Messenger for receiving their first Grammy ® nomination for the 2019 album Terms of Surrender, which is up for Best Americana Album. Matt McGinn reviewed the album for Folk Radio UK here – needless to say, he was hooked within a few bars of its opening track – it was also in our Best Albums of 2019.īack to the present and Hiss Golden Messenger has released a soulful new track “Sanctuary” with an accompanying video which you can watch below. By nuance it captures the near-despair we, our children, and our children's children face when we 'get real.' Potent. ![]() ![]() If Taylor was looking for some inner peace while writing this album, it lives here, in this track.Įven amidst such epic doom - countless deaths, climate change, the reckoning of racial injustice - Taylor and his band offer some solace with Quietly Blowing It. Sanctuary from Sanctuary by Hiss Golden Messenger supported by jeannettebarreca In combination with the video this song brings tears. “Feeling bad, feeling blue / Can’t get out of my own mind / But I know how to sing about it,” Taylor sings in that beautiful reedy moan. And the soft acoustic opening strums of “Sanctuary” introduce what is probably one of the best “pandemic songs” yet. “You gotta let someone in / That’s all that’ll save you,” he sings alongside trembling organ. “Way Back in the Way Back” is a kind of affirmation, a reminder to be grateful for just “a body that’s able.” The album’s smooth, melancholic title track looks for the silver linings in a world on fire. “It never fixed a broken heart / It never made a dumb man smarter,” Taylor sings. “Mighty Dollar” tells that familiar story of the destructive nature of chasing wealth, but instead of a finger wag, we get a slowly simmering warning. That unmistakable Hiss groove you can’t help but sway to, the one that makes you want to grab a loved one and dance barefoot in the dirt, is present all over these songs. The result is the kind of golden, homespun twang-soul we’ve come to find so comforting from Hiss Golden Messenger, warmed up with touches of saxophone, mandolin, Wurlitzer, and a bit of synth. album: 'O Come All Ye Faithful' (2021) Hung Fire. Writing songs through 2020, alone and without any influence (label, bandmates, or otherwise), Taylor eventually assembled his beloved band last summer to record Quietly Blowing It. Hiss Golden Messenger lyrics - 131 song lyrics sorted by album, including 'Cracked Windshield', 'Still Some Light', 'My Wing'. Are we doing what we really want to do or are we just going through the motions? Or essentially, what we were all asking ourselves in 2020 amidst a raging global pandemic that forced us out of our comfort zones and back to the basics. Quietly Blowing It asks how we can do and be better in the world, strip away the excess, and get to the root of ourselves. So how fascinating and utterly harmonious that the set of songs that makes up the latest Hiss Golden Messenger album was written at the height of the realization that we are all capable of living with less less consumption, less activity, less superficiality. Hiss Golden Messenger were signed to Merge in April 2014 and released their fifth album and Merge label debut, Lateness of Dancers on September 9, 2014. It has been the reliable light in the darkness, seeking goodness in everyone and creating the kind of live show experience that leaves you feeling satiated and unburdened, with an inkling to get back to a simpler way of being, to uncomplicate your life.
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