Some kind digital-dwelling folks have started to proclaim the merits of Poor Moon, the new Hiss Golden Messenger album. The remaining LPs are all assembled and ready to ship, so pre-order and stream here for the next week.
Today the Bachelors and M.C. Taylor assembled nearly half of the rather limited pressing of the brand new Hiss Golden Messenger Poor Moon LP. Pre-order your copy here before the official release on November 1st.
Paradise of Bachelors will officially release Hiss Golden Messenger’s masterful Poor Moon LP on the first of November, el Día de los Muertos. The first fully electric ensemble recording since 2010’s highly limited Root Work, Poor Moon represents both an elaboration and inversion of previous HGM efforts, proposing an America at perpetual sundown, wracked by devotion, wrecked by celebration. We are very proud of this album, and we hope that you will enjoy it.
September 10, 2001, All Day Records’ Hopscotch Party at Lump, Raleigh. L-R: Steve Gunn, Cory Rayborn of Three Lobed Recordings, Terry Lonergan, Mike Gangloff and Nathan Bowles of the Black Twig Pickers, and Head Messenger M.C. Taylor.
Poor Moon LPs and jackets arrive on Friday! Keep those keen eyes trained here for pre-order information, including some exciting bonus offerings from Hiss Golden Messenger. Details about the November 1 release and associated events will follow shortly thereafter. In the meantime, we hope that this preview of the album artwork will whet your appetites.
The Bachelors have been so busy with our upcoming Hiss Golden Messenger LP (due November 1st, the Day of the Dead) and the Willie Lowery/Plant & See LP (due late winter/early spring), that we’ve neglected to post more press about David Lee.
Dear Pals of Paradise and Bachelor Brethren, on November 1st, 2011–an apropos date known variously, and coincidentally, as the high harvest holiday of Samhain, the liturgical All Saints’ Day, y el primer Día de los Muertos–Hiss Golden Messenger will release a new long-playing vinyl record entitled Poor Moon on Durham, North Carolina’s boutique Paradise of Bachelors label.
Please pick up a copy of the latest issue of righteous magazine Wax Poetics (#47) to read Contributing Editor Jon Kirby’s thoughtful profile of David Lee on page 28. Mr. Lee finds himself among illustrious company in these pages, which are populated by the likes of the great Solomon Burke (the King of Rock ‘n’ Soul himself, RIP); cosmic songster Terry Callier; PoB hero and Carolinas favorite Roy C; the legendary Bobby Womack and Lamont Dozier; and even Earth, Wind, and Fire.
On April 2, 2011, David Lee accepted the North Carolina Folklore Society’s Brown-Hudson Award and performed two songs, “I Can’t Believe You’re Gone” and “I’ll Never Get Over Losing You,” accompanied by his custom cassette backing track. We’re delighted to share some video of the event below.
Our friends at Light in the Attic Records, who are distributing Said I Had a Vision, have posted a long-form interview with the Bachelors. You can find that here–be sure to read to the end, where we announce our upcoming projects in collaboration with brilliant North Carolina songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist Willie French Lowery, who served as Clyde McPhatter’s bandleader and fronted heavy psych bands Plant and See and Lumbee before striking out on his own.
