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SUMMARY:Hiss Golden Messenger @ Higher Ground
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Point Welcomes: \nHiss Golden Messenger \nA Tour de Point Show\n \n  \nFriday\, April 14\, 2023  Doors: 8 PM / Show: 8:30 PM \nHigher Ground | South Burlington\, VT \n– Tickets and Event Info – \n  \n“I went looking for peace\,” says songwriter M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger about his new album Quietly Blowing It\, out June 25\, 2021\, on Merge Records. “It’s not exactly a record about the state of the world—or my world—in 2020\, but more a retrospective of the past five years of my life\, painted in sort of impressionistic hues. Maybe I had the presence of mind when I was writing Quietly Blowing It to know that this was the time to go as deep as I needed to in order to make a record like this. And I got the time required in order to do that.” He pauses and laughs ruefully. “I got way more time than I needed\, actually.” \nQuietly Blowing It was written and arranged by Taylor in his home studio—his 8’ × 10’ sanctuary packed floor to ceiling with books\, records\, and old guitars—as he watched the chaotic world spin outside his window. “Writing became a daily routine\,” he explains\, “and that was a ballast for me. Having spent so much time on the road over the past ten years\, where writing consistently with any kind of flow can be tricky\, it felt refreshing. And being in my studio\, which is both isolated from and totally connected to the life of my family\, felt appropriate for these songs.” Between March and June\, Taylor wrote and recorded upwards of two dozen songs—in most cases playing all of the instruments himself—before winnowing the collection down and bringing them to the Hiss band. In July\, the group of musicians\, with Taylor in the production seat\, went into Overdub Lane in Durham\, NC\, for a week\, where they recorded Quietly Blowing It as an organic unit honed to a fine edge from their years together on the road. “We all needed to be making that music together\,” he recalls. “We’ve all spent so many years traveling all over the world\, but in that moment\, it felt cathartic to be recording those particular songs with each other in our own small hometown.” \nSurrounding himself with a trusted cast of collaborators that includes Miller\, songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov\, songwriter and Tony Award–winning playwright Anaïs Mitchell\, multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman\, Dawes’ brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith\, and his oldest musical confidant Scott Hirsch\, Taylor has made his most audacious and hopeful work yet with Quietly Blowing It; it’s an album that speaks personal truth to this moment in which the old models of being feel broken and everything feels at stake. “I don’t know that the peace that I crave when I’m far from home exists\, actually\,” says Taylor. “It’s more complicated. I still don’t know what peace means for me\, because I can be sitting on the couch watching a movie with my family and be completely tangled up in my head. But if I keep on doing my own personal work on myself—writing records like Quietly Blowing It—I have to think that I’m getting closer.”
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SUMMARY:moe. @ Higher Ground
DESCRIPTION:The Point Welcomes: \nmoe. \nA Tour de Point Show\n \n  \nFriday\, April 14\, 2023  Doors: 8 PM / Show: 9 PM \nHigher Ground | South Burlington\, VT \n– Tickets and Event Info – \n  \nHailed by American Songwriter for their “mind-bending musicality\,” moe. is treasured for their mesmerizing musical synergy\, unfettered showmanship\, and smart\, resonant songcraft. For three decades\, the band has corralled myriad musical forms on a truly original journey rich with crafty\, clever songwriting and astonishing resourcefulness. Fueled by an impassioned fan base\, moe. has spent much of those thirty years on the road\, encompassing countless live performances marked by eclectic wit\, deep friendship\, and exploratory invention. Having built an enduring legacy with hard work and a confirmed commitment to creativity and community\, moe. seem as surprised as anyone to find themselves at such a significant landmark. \n“The career just very subtly unfolded\,” says co-founding bassist-singer-songwriter Rob Derhak\, “without any of us noticing it actually happened.” \nAl Schnier (guitars\, vocals)\, Chuck Garvey (guitars\, vocals)\, and Derhak first came together at the University of Buffalo in 1990\, musician-friends uniting to play for the sheer fun of it. The band followed a handful of cassette-only releases with 1992’s FATBOY\, recorded in an apartment studio above Buffalo’s Top Shelf Guitars with a bird’s eye view of Mighty Taco. \n“We liked music\, we liked to party\, and we wanted to put those two things together\,” says Derhak. “We wanted to do what seemed like the coolest thing we could possibly do and not have to work a regular job. It didn’t even seem like a decision had to be made. It’s was like\, this is what we’re doing and it’s happening. The idea that thirty years later I would be a dad\, paying a mortgage and earning a living\, based on our band\, with the same guys no less\, that never even crossed my mind.”
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