Hiss Golden Messenger at Castoro Cellars
In 2010, M.C. Taylor—leader, songwriter and singer of Hiss Golden
Messenger—sat down at his kitchen table and started writing and recording
the songs that would eventually become his beloved album Bad Debt. At
the time, the songwriter was living in a drafty cedar cabin in the woods
outside of Pittsboro, North Carolina with his wife and three-month old son
Elijah, having recently moved across the country from California. Taylor
was, for all intents and purposes, out of the music game.
While his child slept, Taylor wrote and sang his finished compositions into a
cassette tape recorder, voice and guitar in the same intimate moment. As
songs began to coalesce—intimate meditations on labor and joy and love
and the heartbreaking, confounding fullness of life—Taylor shared them
with his closest friends, feeling as though he had found something special.
He had 200 copies of the album pressed on vinyl, created the artwork
himself, and sold them out of the trunk of his car. When those copies sold,
he pressed and sold another 200. These early, hand-wrought versions
have become sought-after relics.
Bad Debt was the name Taylor gave to the deep and vulnerable collection
of songs he wrote at his kitchen table; it went on to be profiled in the New
Yorker, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Uncut Magazine, and many
other publications, paving the way for Hiss Golden Messenger's critically
acclaimed, Grammy-nominated career.
In the fall of 2024, Taylor will play a series of solo shows during which he
will perform Bad Debt in its entirety, in addition to songs from the rest of his
celebrated catalog. Keep your ear to the ground.
All items are non-refundable, all sales are final.
All items are non-refundable under any circumstances.
- The concert will be held outdoors. Evenings cool down in Templeton so please plan accordingly.
- No outside drinks will be allowed. Wine will be available for purchase.
- Filtered water will be available at no charge and you are encouraged to bring a non-disposable cup.
- Seating will be available on a first come, first serve basis. You may bring low back chairs for seating on the grassy area in front of the stage.
Gates open at 6pm and the music is scheduled to start at 7pm.
