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The latest album by M.C. Taylor and Hiss Golden Messenger – roughly the North Carolina band’s eleventh studio set in a productive 15 years is shot through with a kind of hard-earned positivity, a radical acceptance.
The Hiss Golden Messenger catalogue is a remarkably consistent one, which tacitly rejects the whole concept of one-off masterpieces; a body of work which has evolved in subtle and consolatory ways ever since their debut, Country Hai East Cotton, in 2009. Jump For Joy, nevertheless, feels like a significant point in Taylor’s creative journey. The rootsy musical blend – the country-soul and folk rock, the accents of funk, the faintest ghosts of dub, the blood ties to Bob Dylan and Van Morrison – is more seamless than ever. The current band, too, play fantastically, a more stable line-up than previous Hiss iterations whose intuitive skills are to the fore.
Gospel, funk and soul, Memphis and New Orleans flit through highly personal Southern rock, played by the live Hiss band with easy generosity. Little Feat are enduring Taylor influences, exemplars, he says, in meshing “ferocious groove and writing that is smart and deep”. So this music rolls….give this outfit a listen! Check their website & try to snag tix for his upcoming Oz tour:
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WED. SEP 27th @ 7.30 CORNER HOTEL (57 Swan St, Richmond)
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THUR SEP 28th @ 7.00 THE GREAT CLUB (160-164 Livingstone Rd, Marrickville)
