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Hiss Golden Messenger: Poor Moon (PoB-002)

Composed and arranged by Head Messenger M.C. Taylor at his home in the rural Piedmont mill town of Pittsboro and recorded with longtime collaborator Scott Hirsch in New York, California and North Carolina, Poor Moon offers a moving culmination of the spiritually-charged song cycle commenced the critically acclaimed Bad Debt album. (OUT OF PRINT)

Various Artists: Said I Had a Vision: Songs and Labels of David Lee (PoB-001)

Paradise of Bachelors is proud to release the first-ever anthology of the eclectic, excellent, and highly collectable music of David Lee. Over the course of three decades beginning in the late 1950s, this unheralded songwriter, musician, producer, and entrepreneur released fourteen 45s and two LPs on his Impel, Washington Sound, and SCOP labels, run out of his Washington Sound record shop in Shelby, North Carolina.

Hiss Golden Messenger: Lord I Love the Rain (PoBDistro-06)

Originally released as a digital-only EP, the collection has been reconstituted as a fully realized long playing album that juxtaposes grainy kitchen table gospel and dusted imaginary sci-fi soundtrack pieces. Lord I Love the Rain is the sound of Hiss Golden Messenger after hours.

Elephant Micah: Louder Than Thou (PoBDistro-02)

Louder Than Thou is the 2012 album from underground folk mainstays Elephant Micah, a rotating-member band headed up by one Joseph O’Connell. Bridging the minimalist rock and sonic experimentation of early work, this is their clearest statement yet, nodding to ‘70s songwriter-ism while simultaneously recasting the genre through textural play and ensemble improvisation.

In Search of Chance.

The Bachelors have just returned from a fruitful fieldwork visit to Nashville, Music City, USA, where we had the honor and privilege of spending several days with our friend Chance Martin (aka Alamo Jones, General Chance, the Stoned Ranger, and the Voice in Black), the mastermind, impresario, and visionary songwriter, bandleader, and singer behind the brilliant, unheralded countrydelic 1981 LP In Search, credited simply to Chance and released on his own Macho imprint.

Autumnal Tidings.

Fall has landed here in North Carolina, and fittingly, Durham’s own Hiss Golden Messenger is on the turntable. Nearly a year ago–on the Day of the Dead, to be exact–we released HGM’s excellent Poor Moon album, and this fall we’re working hard to help prepare their superb follow-up LP, entitled Haw.