I wrote about spirits hanging in the air over the Pacific Ocean above the red L.A. I wrote about my wife and kids, my parents, my brother and sister, how much I missed them, and the ways that I’ve failed to understand them, and how much I love them and hope that they love me. I wrote about the consequences of having too much freedom and the comic complexity of getting exactly what I hoped for. Yet, even when I could not find hopeful things, I wrote because writing songs has always been my salvation. Taylor disclosed in an essay that, “I wasn’t sure that I would survive it, and it’s hard to put my finger on just what I thought was going to kill me.”Įven so, he carried on, as he wrote in that same essay, and created one of the most affecting records of his career:
This release, however, is heavier, resulting from a difficult year of touring and general restlessness. Terms of Surrender (out now on Merge Records) is the follow-up to HGM’s 2017 release, Hallelujah Anyhow, a jubilation in spite of it all.
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Now he’s back with the next chapter in that ongoing series of documents. His music has always exhibited the endurance of humanity, even while sharing and reckoning with his own personal narratives. “They still feel like genuine documents of where I was at that time,” he continues, calling from his home in Durham, N.C., where he relocated from California more than a decade ago.įew words summarize the Hiss Golden Messenger spirit better than “genuine.” Throughout his career, Taylor has drawn from a long lineage of American roots musicians and folklorists, creating an undeniably honest and singular strain of Americana. Taylor tells me that he very rarely revisits those early albums, but he stands by “all the sentiments that exist on them, and all of the emotions that appear on them.” Taylor, better known by his artistic alias Hiss Golden Messenger, released a box set featuring three of his first LPs, now classics in this decade’s folk canon: Bad Debt, Poor Moon and Haw.
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