Bad Debt (Reissue) Hiss Golden Messenger SKU: MRG623LP Barcode: 0673855062310 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records Released Date: 2nd November 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info LP is debossed jacket + printed insert + MP3 coupon. 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 North Carolina in 2010. It was the dead of winter and the pit of the financial crisis, a moment when the dire ramifications of debt—in its 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. In his own words: Bad Debt comes from ten dense acres of oak, cedar, and apple trees in Pittsboro, North Carolina, directly south of the Haw River. The house where it was made was built in the early 1970s by a hippie cohort that settled along Brooks Branch; though this may sound like some kind of brag, I offer this to explain just how cold it was during the fall and winter when this record was conceived. Most hippies— except for the most famous one, of course, and probably a few others—are shit carpenters. The record is about my God: that is, whether I have one, and whether there is a place for me in this world. I don’t go to church, and I am not saved. I can party too. I can do a saxophone now and again, bang the drum. Bad Debt was my revelation, and there are many for whom I’ll never make a record better than this one. Ruminating on the riddle of faith, a firstborn son, and thorny existential questions large and small, the album laid the lyrical and compositional foundations for HGM’s critically acclaimed releases to come. Half of these domestic devotional songs appear elsewhere in the HGM discography in radically reinvented arrangements and permutations—Taylor’s writing practice revealed itself following Bad Debt as essentially iterative, the deliberate enunciation and re-articulation of koans—but they exist here in germinal, psalmic purity and economy, as unadorned and plain and perfectly ragged as the cedar floorboards in that Brooks Branch cabin. Bad Debt remastered by Chris Boerner at Kitchen Mastering. Artwork reimagined by Sam Smith (Lateness of Dancers). Artist Hiss Golden Messenger Genre Rock And Pop Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1 Balthazar’s Song 2 No Lord Is Free 3 Bad Debt 4 O Little Light 5 Straw Man Red Sun River Gold 6 Far Bright Star 7 The Serpent Is Kind (Compared to Man) 8 Call Him Daylight 9 Jesus Shot Me in the Head 10 Super Blue (Two Days Clean) 11 Roll River Roll Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Hiss Golden Messenger 2023's picks View Product Quick View Hiss Golden Messenger Jump for Joy Americana / Country | Merge | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 25th August 2023 £24.00 Select options Hiss Golden Messenger Jump for Joy £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th August 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Hiss Golden Messenger O Come All Ye Faithful Americana / Country | Merge 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