Some tunes sound best closest to the moment they were born. That’s my sentiment, anyway, one which makes me partial to demos in general or, better yet, home cassette recordings. Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor put this one to tape in his rural North Carolina town, specifically in his kitchen while a 1-year-old son slept and his father worried, musically and otherwise, of economic woes. The track arrives on Bad Debt, an LP recorded in 2010 before Taylor’s better known full-lengths, in a reissue early next year. Hear it above.
