Brother, Do You Know The Road?

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2014-05-14

Label: Merge Records

Stand-alone digital single.

Hiss Golden Messenger frontman M.C. Taylor on the song:
“Brother, Do You Know the Road?” was written quickly and recorded in one take in a house belonging to Joyce and Joel Martin in Oxford, NC. It was green early summer. Lots of insects humming in the mics. There is a refrain in this song that is important to me: “And though the storm’s passed over / And the sun is in its place / Oh, it took a long time / And the rain, how I know it.” This song has always been something of an orphan; it’s never found its way onto any full-length HGM album, although it frequently gets played at full-band performances. I like this song a lot.

Personnel on this recording are myself, Scott Hirsch (who also recorded and mixed the song), Terry Lonergan, Phil Cook, and Brad Cook.