Watch Hiss Golden Messenger’s Swaggering, Muscular Letterman Performance

Hiss Golden Messenger on Letterman

Watch Hiss Golden Messenger’s Swaggering, Muscular Letterman Performance

Hiss Golden Messenger on Letterman

Hiss Golden Messenger’s winding, scraggly roots-rocker Lateness Of Dancers is one of those 2014 albums you should really make sure not to overlook. The North Carolina moaner M.C. Taylor did musical-guest duties on the Late Show With David Letterman last night, bringing a full band with a horn section and backup singers and everything. Taylor himself, it turns out, has a hell of a stage presence, too. Playing the Lateness Of Dancers track “Southern Grammar,” Taylor effectively made his project over as a rollicking, muscular Southern rock band, and it sounded pretty awesome. The whole thing punched Letterman himself in his sweet spot; he practically jumped out of his shoes when it was over. Check out the performance below; it’s a good one.

Lateness Of Dancers is out now on Merge. I’m not worried about anything.

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