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Hiss Golden Messenger

About Me

We came around a bend in the road and we saw a golden lake. So we jumped in.


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Member Since: 13/01/2007
Band Website: heavenandearthmagic.com/
Band Members: M.C. Taylor * Scott Hirsch * John Hofer * Patrick Main * Ryan Bishop * Greg Wiz * Pink Nasty * Chris Sipe * Matt Cunitz * Tim Bluhm * Terry Lonergan * Rob Sanchez
Influences: ((((Traffic, Harmonia, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Pandit Pran Nath, Robert Wyatt, The Staple Singers, Sir Doug + Augie Meyers, The Dead, Families Waterson & Copper, Mazzy Star, Cap'n Beefheart & The Magic Band, Cluster, Klaus Dinger + His Apache Beat, Elizabeth Cotton, Can, Cheech, Chong, Gene Clark, Jesse Ed Davis, The C&S, Anne Briggs, Waylon Jennings, Joan Didion, John & Beverly Martyn, Banana & The Bunch, Michael Rother, Roscoe Holcomb, The Hag, Fahey, Fairport, Steeleye Span, Ramnad Krishnan, Jon Hassell, Daddy Longlegs, Eggs Over Easy, Brinsley Schwarz, Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, The Youngbloods, Willie Tee, Ya Ho Wa, King Tubby, Cosmic Jokers, Deuter, Television, Mark Hollis + Talk Talk, Washington Phillips, Terminator X, Taneda Santoka, Spiritualized, Ry Cooder, Ryokan, Tommy McCook, Magnolia Electric Co, Steve Martin, The Sandals, Sonic Youth, Shearwater, Keith Hudson, Herbie Hancock, Hawkwind, Help Yourself, Harvest Records, Richard & Linda Thompson, The Woods Band, X-Clan, Ghostface, John & Alice Coltrane (RIP), Apple Pie, Acapulco Gold, Jamie De Angulo, Lil Bob & The Lollipops, Cedric Im Brooks, Brightblack, Benny Spellman, Fleetwood Mac, Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti, Tim Maia, These Trails, Michael Talbott & The Wolfkings, Trad Gras och Stenar, Trees, Walter Wegmuller, Arvo Part, The Albion Country Band, Ash Ra Tempel (and Sir Manuel Gottsching), Klaus Schulze, The Byrds + Burritos (RIP Sneeky Pete), Basho, Bonnie Prince Billy, Geoff & Maria Muldaur, Amos Garrett, TVZ, MBV, ISB + COB, MV + EE & The Bummer Road, Bruce Brown, The Cros, Doc Snoc, John Cohen, Mac Rebennack, The Far East Family Band, Chubb Rock, Wm Burroughs, Papa John, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Charlie Poole & Pals, Popol Vuh, PG Six, Jean Pierre Melville, Terry Riley, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, The Allman Brothers Band, Pinkus Mueller, Pink Nasty, Panama Red, JL Borges, The Beach Boys, Brothers & Sisters, The New Riders, Lew Welch, The Band, Willie Nelson, Hari Georgeson, Harry Smith, Ghost, and all the other good stuff for swimming in. And a nice beach for to grill fish, which is my favorite dish.))))
Sounds Like: Baked eagle.
Record Label: Heaven & Earth Magic Recording Co.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Country Hai East Cotton Out Now! Many Megahits!

Friends::Hiss Golden Messenger's Country Hai East Cotton, an album assembled by Scott Hirsch and myself over a period of three years in various studios, lofts, and farmhouses in San Francisco, New Yor...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:16:00 GMT

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Oh hi. I forgot you were here. I am currently controlling a blog at www.hissgoldenmessenger.blogspot.com. It's called The Old Straight Track, after the book by Sir Alfred Watkins. Come on over. -mc
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:57:00 GMT

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"A carp is cooking in the kitchen, and, as everyone knows, a carp has to be boiled in claret with pickled oysters, anchovies, thyme, marjoram, basil and white onions. All of this can be smelled. But a...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:05:00 GMT

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Finished Doc Snoc tour a few weeks back. That was a good set of shows. Props to everyone who helped us out and showed up to the performances. Spending time writing and reading, mainly M.M. Bakhtin, "D...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:10:00 GMT

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Haya. In about two weeks, I will be leaving with Michael Hurley on a small East Coast tour. The dates go something like this::Thursday, November 15th @ The Nightlight w/ Hiss Golden MessengerFriday, N...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:19:00 GMT

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It's 8 AM, and I'm trolling through electronic back-issues of the Journal of American Folklore. A bird is peep-peep-peeping out in a big tree. Bird, come down here-- we stocked the feeder full of seed...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:05:00 GMT

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Greetings. Abby and I have landed in the woods outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We live in a former tobacco curing barn. Tobacco curing in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area was once a mysterious...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:28:00 GMT

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My last night in San Francisco. A bit of sadness. I just got my last piece of pie from the Pie Store on 25th and Mission- well, a galette really. During the last of the packing, we listened to most of...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:02:00 GMT

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A day of recovery today spent listening to the Taj Mahal Travellers' entire catalog. If anyone has a copy of their 1971-1972 tour documentary, please get in touch. And if you're going to drink a lot o...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:15:00 GMT

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I just watched "Go West" starring the Marx Brothers. It was fantastic. Harpo played a beautiful harp piece. Now I'm going to watch "The Big Store." There are no lights in here now. mc
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:32:00 GMT