"They are songs about solitude and heartbreak and poverty of the spirit, and maybe community as some kind of antidote for these particular types of sicknesses. Shedding old skin. Mystery as a beautiful necessity. My grandmother Lucy's Cadillac, filled with cigarette smoke, Conway Twitty singing 'Slow Hand.' The lightning fields outside Santa Rosa, NM, midnight. Late nights drinking wine, running wild, bondage, fealty, devotion, seeing and being seen, owning and being owned."
"Highway 10 through the desert towns, Los Angeles to El Paso ... Art Bell's Coast to Coast droning from a bunker in the middle of Nevada. Ghosts and UFOs and vagabonds. The engine sings out over the long lightning fields. In the middle of it: the country, the story, the relationships."
MC Taylor, performing as Hiss Golden Messenger, co-produced I'm People with Josh Kaufman and will release the album May 1 via Chrysalis Records. The record features contributions from Bruce Hornsby, Sam Beam, Marcus King, Sara Watkins, Amy Helm, Matt Douglas, Eric D. Johnson, JT Bates, Cameron Ralston, and Griff & Taylor Goldsmith. Songs focus on running toward and away from things, hope, family, aging, solitude, heartbreak, community, memory, and mystery. The opening track and first single, "In the Middle of It," is described as a Santa Fe song evoking desert highways, ghosts, and long lightning fields. A fall tour includes an Irving Plaza date on November 6; tickets go on sale February 13 at 10 AM local time.
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