Hiss Golden Messenger Performing ‘Bad Debt’ From Front-To-Back At 2024 Fall Tour Dates

Hiss Golden Messenger (M.C. Taylor) will play his sophomore studio album, 2010’s Bad Debt, in its entirety “and other favorites” during a fall tour. Taylor announced eight dates for the solo run with the promise of “plenty more coming.”

Bad Debt was originally released on the tiny Black Maps label in 2010. The 12-track record featuring such standout tracks as “Balthazar’s Song,” “O Little Light” and “Jesus Shot Me In The Head” was reissued in 2014 via Paradise of Bachelors, reaching a wider audience.

M.C. Taylor reminisced about the making of Bad Debt and explained why he’s going to play the album in a statement, writing:

Sometime around 2010, I was living in a little hippie enclave outside a town called Pittsboro, North Carolina.

At the time I was just sort of stumbling forward—a new father, living in a new place, trying to make sense of new obligations. What came out, after a long sort of meditation—something I wouldn’t have called it that then—was Bad Debt.

I was so enchanted by these recordings that I sequenced them into an album and passed it around to friends. They liked it, so I found a place that would press 100 copies on vinyl, and I sold through those and did it again. It sort of started that way. And then somehow, on some converging path, you ended up here. I love thinking about it that way. So here we are, together.

This fall, I’m going to do a tour during which I play Bad Debt in its entirety. It’s not an anniversary tour. It’s more a ‘me thinking about Bad Debt lately and it feels like it’d be fun to play all the songs together’ tour. As they were conceived, so to speak. So that’s what I’m gonna do. And I’ll play a bunch of other songs, of course.

Hiss Golden Messenger will launch the tour as currently constructed on October 2 with a concert at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vermont. Taylor then brings the trek to South Deerfield (Massachusetts) on October 3, Woodstock (New York) on October 4, Brooklyn on October 6 and Ridgefield (Connecticut) on October 6.

The Midwest portion of the tour begins on October 10 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Stops in Davenport, Iowa on October 11 and St. Paul, Minnesota on October 12 follow. Stay tuned for additional dates.

Tickets for all confirmed dates are on sale now. Check out the full itinerary with ticketing links below.