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Rick Mitarotonda (Goose) Talks with M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Podcast

By Talkhouse Podcast | July 18, 2024

Rick Mitarotonda (Goose) Talks with M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) on the Talkhouse Podcast

“It’d be sick to have some short bangers, you know?”

Johanna Samuels and Hiss Golden Messenger Talk the “Possibility of Hope”

Music

By M.C. Taylor | May 14, 2021

Johanna Samuels and Hiss Golden Messenger Talk the “Possibility of Hope”

The singer-songwriters catch up.

Robbie Robertson (The Band) Talks with M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Podcast

By Talkhouse Podcast | February 20, 2020

Robbie Robertson (The Band) Talks with M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) on the Talkhouse Podcast

They talk road-dogging with Dylan, scoring for Scorsese, and creating the seminal Music from Big Pink.

On John Coltrane, a Brilliant Asker of Questions

Music

By M.C. Taylor | August 3, 2018

On John Coltrane, a Brilliant Asker of Questions

"John Coltrane's work was love in all of its messy and complicated and Godly glory."

M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) on Time, Death and Ryan Adams’ Newest Record

Music

By M.C. Taylor | February 17, 2017

M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) on Time, Death and Ryan Adams’ Newest Record

Taylor is interested in the long game that Ryan Adams is playing.

Tift Merritt on Being a Mother on the Road

Music

By Tift Merritt | February 8, 2017

Tift Merritt on Being a Mother on the Road

The singer-songwriter grapples with her two most important roles.

The 2016 Talkies: Talkhouse Music Contributors’ Top Albums of the Year

Music

January 5, 2017

The 2016 Talkies: Talkhouse Music Contributors’ Top Albums of the Year

David Bowie, A Tribe Called Quest, Beyonce and more top the 2016 Talkies.

M.C. Taylor Remembers His Songwriting Hero, Guy Clark

Music

By M.C. Taylor | May 19, 2016

M.C. Taylor Remembers His Songwriting Hero, Guy Clark

The Hiss Golden Messenger frontman never met Clark, but he knows exactly what he would have told the legend.

Jim James Talks with M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) for The Talkhouse Music Podcast

Podcast

By Jim James and M.C. Taylor | September 9, 2015

Jim James Talks with M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) for The Talkhouse Music Podcast

Two outstanding southern songwriters sit down and delve into the process of how music is created.

Tim Showalter (Strand of Oaks) Talks Hiss Golden Messenger’s “Saturday’s Song”

Music

By Tim Showalter | July 14, 2014

Tim Showalter (Strand of Oaks) Talks Hiss Golden Messenger’s “Saturday’s Song”

I was in seventh grade, and I was a future burnout kid riding BMX bikes with my best friends. We lived somewhere between nowhere and somewhere else.