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  MRG575CDCD  £12.00
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  Digipak with poster style insert

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Merge

Hiss Golden Messenger

Heart Like a Levee

The writing of the songs that became 'Heart Like a Levee' started in a hotel room in Washington DC in January of 2015 during a powerful storm that darkened the East Coast. At that time I was feeling - more\n acutely than I had ever felt before - wrenched apart by my responsibilities to my family and to my music. Forgetting, momentarily, that for me, each exists only with the other. How could I forget? Though maybe my lapse was reasonable I had just quit my job, the most recent and last, in a series of dead-end gigs stretching back 20 years, with the vow that my children would understand their father as a man in love with his world and the inventor of his own days. They would be rare in that regard. And then - driven by monthly bills and pure fear - I left for another tour, carrying a load of guilt that I could just barely lift. But in that snowy hotel room I found the refrain that became my compass I was a dreamer, babe, when I set out on the road but did I say I could find my way home? M.C. Taylor CD - Digipak with poster style insert. 11 Tracks. 2CD - Deluxe 2CD is Digipak / Softpak with obi wrap and poster style insert. Includes the 8 Track 'Vestapol'. 19 Tracks total. LP - 11 Tracks with Download. 2LP - Deluxe 2LP in Gatefold Sleeve poster plus obi wrap and Download. Includes the 8 Track 'Vestapol'. 19 Tracks total.

Tracklist

• 1. Biloxi
  2. Tell Her I'm Just Dancing
  3. Heart Like a Levee
  4. Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer5
  5. Smoky's Song
  6. Cracked Windshield
  7. As the Crow Flies
  8. Happy Day (Sister My Sister)
  9. Say It Like You Mean It
  10. Ace of Cups Hung Low Band
  11. Highland Grace
  Disc 2
  1. Blackeyed Boy
  2. After the Colors
  3. Together's Just a Word
  4. Living Above the Waterline
  5. Strawberry Girl Reel
  6. Little Rain
  5. John the Gun
  8. Vestapol (Is Where I'm Bound)