M.C. Taylor

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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M.C. Taylor, singer-songwriter and frontman for Hiss Golden Messenger, joins Rhett from Durham to talk about the latest record, “Jump For Joy”. M.C. tells Rhett about finding his musical voice, the importance of having a creative practice, and the two discuss why it's important to maintain some mystery around the meaning of a song. Describing the Durham-based Hiss Golden Messenger is like trying to grasp a forgotten word: It’s always on the tip of your tongue, but hard to speak. Songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor’s music is at once familiar, yet impossible to categorize: Elements from the American songbook—the steady, churning acoustic guitar and mandolin, the gospel emotion, the eerie steel guitar tracings, the bobbing and weaving organ and electric piano—provide the bedrock for Taylor’s existential ruminations about parenthood, joy, hope, and loneliness—our delicate, tightrope balance of dark and light—that offer fully engaged contemporary commentary on the present. And then there’s an indescribable spirit and movement: Hiss Golden Messenger’s music grooves. There’s nothing else quite like it. Hiss Golden Messenger website Follow @hissgoldenmessenger Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.8	Osiris.
0:52.6	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:57.8	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:59.2	That's when it got wheels off.
1:02.2	We started ugly ain't gonna stop.
1:04.5	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
1:07.9	That's when it got wheels off.
1:19.7	M.C. Taylor, frontman of the band Hiss Golden Messenger joins me for this newest episode of Wheels Off.
1:31.2	There's a thing that happens when I'm recording these episodes all over Zoom now, where when somebody says something that I think,
1:38.3	thank God someone is saying that for folks to hear who have artistic aspirations or are navigating a life in the arts or have, you know, creativity, you know, gnawing away inside of them. Thank God this person is
1:47.9	saying this thing for those folks to hear. And I'll glance up at the place on my screen where
1:55.8	it reassures me that it is recording. Sometimes I worry that my guest will notice me glancing away
2:03.8	and think that, oh, I'm checking some sort of a text or email or something. But I'm looking to make
2:09.2	sure that it's being recorded because, thank God somebody is saying this. That happened a number
2:15.0	of times during this conversation with MC.
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