M.C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums Haw (2013) and Poor Moon (2011) direct to a portable cassette recorder at the kitchen table of his pine-entwined home in rural Piedmont, NC in 2010. It was the dead of winter and the pit of the financial crisis, a moment when the dire ramifications of debt - in it's economic, political, and personal senses - had assumed a rank immediacy and terror for many working people around the world, not least of all in the American South. Taylor, his one-year old boy Elijah sleeping in the next room, was compelled to chart the sacred valences of debt, doubt, and family in fresh ways, in the process stripping bare and reinventing his songwriting idiom.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock, Folk
- Released: 11/02/2018
Track Listing:
A1 Balthazar's Song
A2 No Lord Is Free
A3 Bad Debt
A4 O Little Light
A5 Straw Man Red Sun River Gold
A6 Far Bright Star
B1 The Serpent Is Kind (Compared To Man)
B2 Call Him Daylight
B3 Jesus Shot Me In The Head
B4 Super Blue (Two Days Clean)
B5 Roll River Roll
B6 Drum
