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Songs We Love: Hiss Golden Messenger, 'Standing In The Doorway'

Hiss Golden Messenger.

M.C. Taylor has one of rock's most naturally self-flagellating voices — a rueful, weary reediness that makes the tensions in his songs pull that much harder. On last year's , Taylor's sixth album as , it was the tussle between family life and the road; on "Standing In The Doorway," a beautiful outtake from that record, it's dreaming and reality that are at odds.

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