![]() Although, this past year certainly made me question what we have to do as musicians in order to make ends meet. To address the latter part of your question, because of how musicians have to make a living, I don’t have a ton of choice really about being out on the road. What was it like coming home and being dad, being a husband? Was there a point early on where you kinda felt like a Martian? And what about going forward? Do you think you’ll be more inclined to take advantage of that family time in the future? Because you’d been out on the road for years at this point in time, like steady. Tell me about becoming a full-time member. But everything that was happening, figuratively, outside my window, couldn’t help making its way into the music just because that was our collective experience. I was actually addressing just life as I had experienced it for the past couple of years. I wasn’t writing explicitly about where we were at right in that moment of spring of 2020. ![]() It’s important to remember that at that time, everything was unfolding. Was it as immediate as anything you’d ever done? With Quietly Blowing It, you really do explore, I think, all the emotions you were feeling at that point in time, we were feeling, all of us were feeling at that point in time. We initially assumed it would be a couple weeks, so I thought like, “Oh, I’ll work for a couple of weeks and see what I can get done.” But things stretched on and I just kept writing and then within a few months, there was a record! Anytime I have enough songs to make up what I think would be a solid record, I just go in and record it. When everything shut down, I think my natural inclination was just to go write for as long as I had. So if I’m not on the road, if I have any sort of time off the road, I’m usually writing just because it’s what makes me feel good. MCT- (Laughs) It’s pretty funny to remember back to that time! I generally find myself writing when I have enough time to sink into something. I got a two-part question here– were you intending at that point to start writing a new album, and did you anticipate that it was going to be a much longer period of time than the originally prescribed “two weeks” that they said we were gonna be on lockdown? ![]() As Taylor says, “When you hear it, you know it.”ĪI- In the beginning, which in this case, I’m talking about last spring with the lockdown and the origins of Quietly Blowing It, I think the paint was still kinda wet on Terms of Surrender. In a week that has seen school systems across the country reopen to in-person classes despite the pandemic (and in some cases without mask mandates), touring musical acts stand up for concert safety standards, hospitals returning to capacity limits, and anti-masking/anti-vaxxing rhetoric reaching a new dangerous high, it could be that the volume just needs to be lessened in order to discern what’s really happening across the nation and around the world. And that’s the point– to look for solutions together and share a singular hope that a better world is simply waiting for better decisions. Gestating long before the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, Taylor attempts to chronicle his own observations and frustrations both socially and personally with a collection of songs that comes across more like an intimate conversation with close friends than a dire debate against challenging opinions. With heart and groove, MC Taylor wrestles with real life and the often Sisyphean cycle of questions without answers on Quietly Blowing It, the latest effort from Hiss Golden Messenger.
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