Hiss Golden Messenger

Hiss Golden Messenger is the long-running musical project led by North Carolina-based singer, songwriter and producer M.C. Taylor. Emerging from the Americana folk and roots tradition, the project blends multiple genres with classic singer-songwriter influences and deeply personal, socially reflective songwriting. About the band’s latest release, I’m People (2026), Taylor says its songs “are about running towards and away from things, about reasonable and realistic hope and expectations, about having babies, getting older, love and lust and luck and music. 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.”