***The eagerly anticipated, full-length, full-band follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2011 album Poor Moon. Haw is an album of eleven songs about family, faith, and an ill-prophesied future, an artifact almost as archaic, lovely and seldom heard today as directional commands for beasts of burden. M.C. TAYLOR, who wrote these songs, once lived hard by the river Haw with his wife Abigail and their son Elijah—Well I come from the bottom of the river Haw, he sings—but he doesn’t live there anymore. Having followed the slipstream to the relative bustle of nearby Durham, North Carolina, he has composed a new clutch of tunes that conjure the half-remembered dreams of peace promised by our pasts. CD housed in heavy 24 pt matte gatefold wallets. LP packaged in matte tip-on jackets with full-color innersleeve and digital download. (STREET DATE - 4/02/2013)