― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
he is good in concert.
does anyone have "blue navigator"? i've been looking for it forever, but i've just about given up.
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
I have Blue Navigator on mp3, amt.
― J (Jay), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
Any way you could send it to me???
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
― J (Jay), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 11 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
:-)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― peter x (bucksbreeze), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm hoping to make it to the book mill show this time w/ Feathers and maybe whichever gig mr. bunnybrains is putting on if I can make it (damn those saturdays).
Oh, yes, and I certainly dig 'im as well, though he's a bit of a codger at times.
― nick ring (nick ring), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― confused, Friday, 28 April 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link
On Saturday, May 20 at 8:30 PM, some of the finest singer-songwriters performing today will appear in concert at the historic, intimate former church occupied by The Sanctuary For Independent Media, 3362 6th Avenue in Troy. Admission for the all-ages show featuring Michael Hurley, Tara Jane O'Neil and Samara Lubelski is $10.
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― nick ring (nick ring), Friday, 12 May 2006 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 12 May 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kevin Roberts, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://grown-so-ugly.blogspot.com/
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
lots more shows at D!MEaD0z3n right now. Amateurist, email me at sleeve (at) efn (dot) org if your'e still looking for stuff.
he just recently played his first show in Astoria since moving there a number of years back (after cancelling two previous gigs). My friend who went said it was great.
― sleeve, Saturday, 11 August 2007 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
New album!! It's called Ancestral Swamp, on LP and CD. As usual there are a couple of his standard remakes but it is mostly new stuff, 5 covers, buncha blues tunes, subject matter is swamps and rivers and floods. I heard one track in a coffee shop today but haven't gotten my hands on teh LP yet.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I like it, but I haven't heard his earlier stuff yet so I don't know how it compares. Need to remedy that.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
can't go wrong with Wolfways or Snockgrass or Have Moicy
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
New one's great. As I said on the "2007 Reissues" thread, I think it seem to be mastered more quietly and with less dynamic range than some of his older material--this makes it feel more gray and less bright than some of his older releases. Subdued is the word. But it actually fits pretty well, there aren't any tracks that really scream for an ebullient sound.
― ian, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
He's playing tomorrow in Astoria, an Upper Oregon Coast town about 4 hours from me. My girlfriend used to live there and we are totally road trippin it tomorrow for some live Snock action that I also plan on recording.
― sleeve, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, he lives there so this is not that unusual, but it has been at least a year or two since he did a hometown gig.
― sleeve, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Ggo go go, and let us know how it is!
― ian, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
If he is still selling his homemade 2CDR set with 'Land of Lo Fi & Redbirds' PICK ONE UP!
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome!
― bb, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah Stormy I have that one but I still need "Growlin' Bobo".
― sleeve, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
or did you want one?
no i have it but i meant to say that if you didn't you should get one cuz it's SO GOOD!
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
someone should burn that shit for me.
― ian, Friday, 29 February 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.snockonews.net/images/Husbands.jpg
― sleeve, Saturday, 1 March 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Armchair Boogie need a proper reissue
Dude can play a little too long live occasionally, but that's a pretty nit-picky complaint I guess
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 1 March 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
No. I agree. Hurley can be transcendent, but he can also ramble. One too many songs, in my opinion, creep into the five- and six-minute marks.
― QuantumNoise, Saturday, 1 March 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"time to pause for the cause" = smoke break.
There are usually 3 or 4 of these breaks in your average Hurley concert.
― sleeve, Saturday, 1 March 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
also I mentioned this on teh rolling vinyl thread but Warner are still being dicks about the 2 LPs on Raccoon, informal word from Mississippi was that they won't be allowed to reissue Armchair after all.
― sleeve, Saturday, 1 March 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, that's a fuckin bummer. do you know what the particular hang-up is? Blame Jesse Colin Young.
― ian, Saturday, 1 March 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Blame his moustache!
― QuantumNoise, Saturday, 1 March 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Also: Michael Hurley can never play too long as long as you keep a steady-but-not-indulgent drinking pace.
― ian, Saturday, 1 March 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Agreed. Plus, his pace reflects the life he lives. I've spent time in places like Bolinas in northern California. It's as if the entire town lives like one of his songs.
― QuantumNoise, Saturday, 1 March 2008 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
so last night at the store I saw that the new issue of the Wire has a piece on Michael, written by none other than Byron Coley.
Damn. I really wanna read it but I also don't wanna give 9 American bones to shitty ass Wire just for the privilege. Hm.
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 2 March 2008 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a good recording but it cut off at the best part about 70 minutes in. some great song about Alice the alcoholic, totally new to me. that's always how it is, yeah? tape cuts off right at the best part. anyway, some other dude also recorded the set. His should be up on Tr@der's D3n/3tree sometime soon. I will Leonardo my recording once I get it tracked out. MH played for about 80-90 minutes, unaccompanied. Some banjo, lotta guitar, some really nice mouth trumpet action. A couple of great songs I had never heard before, just like every time I see him.
The "Husbands, Love Your Wives" referred to in the flyer above was a young woman doing a solo set with guitar and voice. Very sweet and young and pretty capable of holding the room's interest. Her grandma lived in Astoria and MH said that she had Myspaced him (!!) and they decided to set up a show together. Her whole family was there!
Astoria was still pretty beat up from that big winter storm, two-foot diameter pine trees just snapped in half. lots more just torn up by the roots. lotta blue tarps on roofs.
I bought "Growlin' Bobo", and only have a few releases left to track down (Bellmeade Sessions, Down In Dublin, and the Excrusiasion '86 tape). Bobo is a smokin hot live set in Vermont, November 1980 (actually the best of two nights) featuring a four-piece backing band, four-part vocal harmonies, and Robin Remaily's fiddle playing. Excellent and worth your time.
― sleeve, Monday, 3 March 2008 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sitting here on my lunch break reading the Hurley piece in the Wire. Did you guys know he began sessions for an album on ESP but Stollman nixed it because of the mouth trumpet?! unbelievable.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
ian have you ever read the Popwatch interview with him from a few years back?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Nooooo, I am gonna have to go dig it up!
― ian, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i read that wire thing on monday and was amused by the esp thing...and surprised. what got into stollman there? i was also surprised on byrons very straight approach. there was some line about halfway through that suddenly reminded me that it was byron writing...
ill look for the popwatch bit. i was wondering on mon night if there was much else written about him
― bb, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
also still annoyed that everyone forgot to call me when he did the random "show" at d4ddy's (here in brooklyn) a few summers back because everyone assumed someone else had called me...or simply assumed id be around at some point anyway...
― bb, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
it was Popwatch #9, but Perfect Sound Forever re-ran it:
http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/michaelhurley.html
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Michael Hurley's virtual jukebox:
http://www.snockonews.net/listen.htm
― sleeve, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
smokey the bear standin therein front of the woods all black & baretears in his eyes.
― ian, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
has anyone purchased the OOP LPs on CDR from Hurley's web site? if so, what do you get? just a cd-r, or packaging/artwork/etc.?
― amateurist, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
amtst, which one(s) are you looking for? If they're ones I have, I will tape them for you for free.you can e-mail me if you do not want to discuss it here--dr.carl.sagan at gmail dot com
― ian, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember Michael from my youth--I actually ended up working at the same restaurant as his ex-wife when I was in high school. He lived in Vermont for awhile, back when the Modals were kicking around up there, playing there snockgrass and drinking their hard cider. My mom always talked about how she was down with the scene (they even had a nickname for her). I went to see him play in Brooklyn a few years back, with that band Ida for some reason, and approached him after the show, and mentioned my mom. "Oh, I remember her," he said. Before walking away abruptly. AWKWARD!
― the who cares (okamax), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah he really doesn't seem too interested in talking to fans, which is fine for an old coot like himself. I'm sure he does whatever he damn well pleases at this point.
amateurist, the CDRs are on regular burned discs with his scrawled titles on them, but they do come with one-color mockups of the original covers. my copy of Growlin' Bobo is 4-color, but the ones of Blue Navigator and LoFi/Redbirds are blue and yellow-green respectively. Blue Navigator is burned from vinyl, natch.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm. i actually already own most of 'em, but i just thought i'd give my money to ol' snocko hisself. however i'm not too keen on paying top dollar for a CD-R in an envelope.
― amateurist, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
when i say "own" most of 'em, i suppose i mean, "i got 'em on mp3s"
oh and i guess the ones i don't have in any form (but want) are:
- Snockgrass- Watertower- Growlin' Bo Bo- Woodbill Brothers- Wolfways- Parsnip Snips
― amateurist, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
of those, i only have watertower but i'll happily tape it for you if you want. or you could send money to the man; but i don't know what his cdr packaging is like. at least, however, if you order from him you can also see what new comics he has for sale!send me an e-mail.
― ian, Thursday, 26 February 2009 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I have mistakenly given a bad impression of the CDRs. They come in jewel cases, with a front page (this is the "one-sheet" I referred to, but they also have J-cards for teh back cover, same color. They are pretty good for homemade CDR copies.
Also, you NEED Wolfways, it's my favorite.
And I also mistakenly referred to Growlin' Bobo as a 4-color, I meant Woodbill Bros (which is live with a full band in Vermont).
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 February 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
isn't snockgrass out on CD officially now? or is that out of print too? i know the price of the LP has been insane the last few times on the bay, but i keep on lookin.
― ian, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
and amtst, did you grab his last record, ancestral swamp? i think it's grand.
hmmm, Snockgrass was on CD via Rounder (with two must-have bonus tracks), but I dunno if it's still in print.
― sleeve, Friday, 27 February 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking bonus tracks.fucking CDs.
― ian, Friday, 27 February 2009 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
huh?
no, i haven't picked up his newest, but it sounds very good indeed, and i will do so.
― amateurist, Friday, 27 February 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
MICHAEL HURLEY'S PLAYING AT MY HOUSEMY HOUSE
AND THE NEIGHBORS CAN'TCALL THE POLICE
On Saturday, May 9th, Le Sous-Sol presents the esteemed Michael Hurley,one of America's great musical treasures. Starting with his first releaseon the Folkways label in 1965, Hurley has steadily amassed a large,varied, and impressive body of work on numerous records and CDs. Hisclassic 1970 LP Armchair Boogie was recently reissued by Portland'sMississippi Records. We are excited to be able to bring him to Eugene forthe first time in several years.
Michael will be playing with Portland musician Alexa Wiley. The show isat 7 PM, all ages, suggested donation $10-12.
Le Sous-Sol is located at 375 River Road in Eugene. Parking is availableuntil 11 PM at the lot at the end of Fir Lane next to the VRC footbridge,although biking is encouraged. More info: 541-xxx-xxxx or sx✧✧✧@x✧✧.x✧✧
Hurley on the web:http://www.snockonews.net/http://www.myspace.com/snock07
Alexa Wiley:http://www.myspace.com/awileyp
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 April 2009 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Snock set at Holocene was soooo on last night
― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 30 April 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
should i buy a copy of the first LP for $275? I can trade some OOP RARE kraut LPs for it, but... fuck. and it's rent in a few days too e_e
― ian, Sunday, 28 June 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
not like, trade for it anyway--trade TOWARDS it.
― ian, Sunday, 28 June 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
my vote is no, but I was never as big a fan of that 1st one except for "Blue Mountain". And seeing as how Locust never put it on vinyl, it's your only option.
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 June 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Armchair Boogie >> the first one. The first album is great, but somebody is bound to reissue that again (and hopefully on vinyl this time) soon. $275.00 is a lot of groceries and beer, dude.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i think i'm gonna have to pass this one up :(i do love it though. was listening to the CD again this morning--tea song, fat mama, captain kidd, down at the pool hall, no no no i won't go down no more...
― ian, Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Hurley signed my Armchair Boogie with a green pen a few years ago.
"This album is hard to find these days," he said.
"I know."
I'm really glad he sells those CD-rs.
When he was in Knoxville he stayed with the guy from John Wilkes Booze and some other woman in this, like, power bohemian co-op house and smoked a lot of weed.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Blue Navigator is good!
― bamcquern, Sunday, 28 June 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael was interviewed on this week's American Routes. fun interview, listen here:
http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/player/playlist/23078
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 24 August 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man awesome, thanks for the link. i'm heading out the door but gonna leave this on the screen to dig when i get home. thanks! p.s. was listening to hi-fi snock uptown while eating/cooking dinner.
― ian, Monday, 24 August 2009 01:38 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWAOJr5PcAI
Change your drawers!Hey for what reason?Them drawers... is out of season...
― ian, Monday, 5 October 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
So I'm making a tape with LONG JOURNEY on one side and SNOCKGRASS on the other.Armchair Boogie and Watertower also been in heavy rotation. and HAVE MOICY!This music is like the most comfortable shirt in your wardrobe. Love it.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
try Wolfways next! Hi Fi Snock is also excellent.
I listened to Woodbill Brothers yesterday cause I haven't given it the attention it deserves and it was very enjoyable.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got Hi-Fi Snock. I was getting ready to write a check for some cdr's when I hit a rough patch of luck.My car got booted and that pretty much drained my Snock fund. Next time I've got fity bucks to spare, though, I'm mailing it to him.Was planning on picking up Blue Navigator, Woodbill Brothers, and one other. I guess Wolfways is it!
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
sucks that the records are only on cd-r, even if they are direct from snock.mississippi just put out PARSNIP SNIPS, so maybe they or someone else will put out some records soon.slurf song and hog of the forsaken have been in heavy rotation while i've been walking. makes me want to make spaghetti, and a bowl of beans.
― peter falk's panther burns (schlump), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 06:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Been jamming Parsnip Snips, loving it.
― ian, Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that it's a grab bag format spanning many years, wish he'd do another one like that.
― sleeve, Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
well god damn if the new Snock Con Ida isn't his best to my ears since Weatherhole. Doesn't have the sad, subdued vibe of Ancestral Swamp at all. Instead it is silly, playful, and even bouncy in spots. I gave it a spin last night and had to immediately stop and put "Ragg Mopp" on again, that is some straight up genius there.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
also, it is a Hurley album in all but name - he sings every track and I think wrote every song on it as well, there are no credits.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
a few of the tracks are covers, but yeah, it's pretty much a straight hurley record.
― ian, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
and it's great.
r-a-g-g m-o-p-p ragg mopp
we used to sing that song in music class when I was in like first grade.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"Rag Mop" by the Ames Brothers was the last single release to hit #1 on the popular charts (Billboard) that was released only on "78" speed at the time of its popularity. After this point in popular music history, every song to hit #1 was released on a 45 rpm record.
― ian, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=ncns7g4cq9&ref=browse.php&refQ=label%3D133316%26amp%3Bincl_oos%3D1%26amp%3Bincl_cs%3D1%26amp%3Bformat%3Dall
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ good EP.
― ian, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
When I was a puppy dog...
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
This music is like the most comfortable shirt in your wardrobe. Love it.― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 00:06 (9 months ago)
this
also-- what's this "blue mountain" vinyl scheduled for release soon? a new album? old material?
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
No idea about the vinyl, but I listened to Hi Fi Snock AND Snockgrass on a long drive today and it was perfect.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 19 July 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I got Blue Hills in the mail today. It's new recordings (2007-10 iirc) Side A features Snock on piano and electric organ, B side on guitar. Three long-ish tracks on each side. I think it's great.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
And a new version of tea song, which is great, cuz I don't have that first record.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
!!! what label!?!?
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Mississippi again. Great record.
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man my store better have that in tomorrow
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
saw it last friday. didn't pick it up due to no money.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
still dragging my heels on abner jay 2 for the same reason
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
abner ii is rad; a lot of full on messy group sounding stuff, like the version of depression that came out as a 7" (koko) - lord randall sounds like nothing else he's done. can't wait for blue hills; the ida record's still going round and round.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, psyched on the abner 2 band stuff, new version of "im so depressed" so sweet
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
schlump, are you back in the UK?
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
did pick up abner j 2, but not the m hurley. timing is everything. like the abner j, but miss the chatting between tracks.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
xpsure am: otherwise i'd come and patronize academy and pick up the new MSR things; being here means it takes a couple of weeks. i'm pretty jazzed about all the bienalle recs. the blurb for the hurley record makes it sound pretty special.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:24 (thirteen years ago) link
just got the new one. am enjoying it.
oddly the LP album art reminds me of CD art.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
wish mississippi would always use heavy-duty folkways-style sleeves.
you'd better stop that drinkinwhiskey willy
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
My digniteeee would be besmirchedif ya hit me in the facewith a poooiiiiiieeeee
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i drive a lousy rusty carand in that rig i can't get fari can't keep it under controli about lostthe steerin polei'm a wild childi aint so mildim reconciledto the bluuuues
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
and down the street come two twin girlstheir necks all wrapped in diamonds and pearlsand one stand on the leftthe other standon the right
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
some savage has lifted all of the Hurley lps from the community radio station.Seeing red, tbh. Good thing I made dubs of the ones I don't own.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hope it was just a borrow!
― 69, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
jerks!!!
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
btw my wish should not be construed as approval of radio station library borrowing
― 69, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
our radio station doesn't even have a library :(
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda related - peter stampfel is playing glasgow tomorrow night... w jeffrey brown, who i don't really know but kinda mistrust cos a few lame ppl i know, comic fans mostly, seem to think he's hot stuff... so i dunno, i mean those first few holy modal albs are genius, love have moicy etc - anybody else seen this combo?
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Was worried about that too, so skipped the London shows.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Friday, 28 January 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
some friends saw the show a few days back, i heard peter stampfel was great. supporting jeffrey lewis though, right? i guess but for their chosen mediums there is not much between them. i think jeffrey lewis's set was a lot of talk about stampfel & the rounders & all.
tried to repost ian's SMOKEY THE BEAR/eyes lyric i remember popping up here ages ago but couldn't find it.
― schlump, Friday, 28 January 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol yeah sorry, jeffrey lewis (they both draw comics tho, rite?)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i see the dishes over there, they fill me with despair
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:07 (twelve years ago) link
Finally checked out Armchair Boogie and Snockgrass after only having Ancestral Swamp...glad to hear the older stuff is less slow-Oldhamy
― da croupier, Monday, 13 June 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
"The Tea Song" made me sob and sob the first time I listened to it on the Mississippi reissue of First Songs that a buddy of mine picked up for me.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 13 June 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
have you heard the blue hills version? it's even sweeter, such a highlight. (did MSR do first songs, btw? i thought it was folkways or someone).
framing hurlz in the context of oldham seems sorta gauche to me but perhaps this will unravel upon further listening
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Monday, 13 June 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Well, he lives in Portland, and he said he went to the store the day that they became available. It looks like a MR job, real heavy duty jacket with pasted on covers.There's no label on it anywhere, I think.Truthfully, I'm a little confused over the various iterations of the early stuff.There's a Folkways version, Smithsonian Folkways reissue, there's Blueberry Wine...So Blue Hills looks like its a newer recording, then, right? I've only heard it on First Songs.But I did just pick up Ancestral Swamp at my public library and I'm digging it.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 13 June 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
use your left hand / feels like someone else
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 June 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
Catalog #: MR 094LP"A full LP of never before released Hurley recordings from 1972-73! Great early versions of classic Hurley songs such as 'Automatic Slim & the Fatboys,' 'Drivin' Wheel,' 'Ghost woman Blues,' 'Watchin' the Show,' and 'The Portland Water' that come off for the most part better than later releases of these songs. Hurley is backed up by The Fatboys - not the rotund hip hop crew from the film Disorderlies, but rather a bunch of not so fat nice guys in Vermont who played mostly for the local dairy farmers. (Later they were known as Sheriff Mocus & the Deranged Cowboys) A laid back countryish album sure to please the hardcore Hurley fan and casual listener too. Deep and breezy. Cover painting by Michael. A co-release with our friends label in San Francisco - Secret Seven."
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds like just the thing. will buy
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 14 August 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
there's a stack of new mississippis that i read about + am just all oh i guess there's where my money's going.
i don't play parsnip snips all that much, & this sounds kinda similar, but sure it sounds nice. i like him playing with other groups.
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Sunday, 14 August 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
oh I think this will be better than Parsnips, this is fabulous news.
― sleeve, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
lookin forward to this
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
also does snock tour much anymore? i saw him 2x in chicago years ago but he hasn't come to the midwest for a long while i think
played some shows in the northeast a few months ago i believe, i was trying to find some radio stuff i heard he did without any luck. yeah i think he's still around, though maybe not doing whole rambling circuits.
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
he is playing at the Laurelhurst pub in Portland every wednesday in August, fyi. but I don't think he goes as far to play shows anymore.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, tons, tons of portland shows. dude was def out east recently though
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 08:12 (twelve years ago) link
...I'll just go away, and I won't no where I'm going...
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
I ordered that new album, excited.
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
some brief thoughts on Fatboy Spring...
contrary to Mississippi hype, I do not find the versions of the 5 songs previously released in diff versions to be superior. Nice enough though. The real draw here is the 4 "new" tracks, including Hank Williams' "Move It On Over". Very minimal liner notes make it difficult to figure out when (and with which band, they mention two) the tunes were recorded. Thought it was live, but nope! Studio versions.
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
I ain't sadI ain't madbut I'm feelin' kinda badsince I moved to the countywhere I liveit's somewhere betweena piece of firewoodand a food stampand an ol'ten dollar gig (ten dollar gig)comin' up (comin' up)at theend of the week
any thoughts on "Back Home With Drifting Woods"?
I finally tracked down Bellemeade Sessions and Down In Dublin, now all I need is the Excrusiasion '86 cassette (LOL). If any of y'all can hang w/CDs I got them from CDbaby.
Bellemeade Sessions is awesome, killer version of "Girl On The Billboard", instrumentals, and the aforementioned "$10.00 Gig" along with great drawings and anecdotes.
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
bump 4 the work week
― sleeve, Monday, 22 October 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
oh i see the dishes over there, they fill me with despair― sonderangerbot, Monday, June 13, 2011 6:07 AM (1 year ago)
Greatest line from one of my favourite songs ever.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 October 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
I was singing that line to my wife last night! We sing it on a regular basis.
― sleeve, Monday, 22 October 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
he played it last time i saw it & sung a bunch of new (/diff) verses. it is a beaut.
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Sleeve: "Dishes over the-ere..."Mrs. Sleeve: "Fill me with despai-air..."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
so good
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Forgot to post this hype here for those who might be interested... in the new issue of Arthur (now costs $5, new broadsheet format):
"ON THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME SNOCK: Wily folkplayer MICHAEL HURLEY (aka Elwood Snock) has charmed hip audiences for over fifty years now with his timeless surrealist tunes and sweetly weird comics, all the while maintaining a certain ornery, outsider mystique. Longtime Snockhead/Arthur Senior Writer BYRON COLEY investigates this Wild American treasure in an enormous 11,000-word, 8-PAGE feature replete with rare photos, artwork, comics... and a giant color portrait by Liz Devine. Snock attack!"
― jaywbabcock, Monday, 19 August 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
arthur feature on hurley is amazing. funny that he nixed both the doc about him and the tribute album. guess he's not quite as laid back as his on-record persona suggests.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 August 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
haven't read but I can totally get behind avoiding an artist doc in today's oversaturated Awesome Lost Musician Rediscovered climate
― szarkasm (schlump), Saturday, 31 August 2013 01:58 (ten years ago) link
I found Hi Fi Snock Uptown at a goodwill in Oklahoma, and I've been playing it daly now for the past week. I'm in love with this record! Are the rest of his albums low key/late night cowboy music?
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 31 August 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
the next one you NEED is Armchair Boogie, but he's one of my absolute faves... buy anything you see, imo.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 31 August 2013 08:24 (ten years ago) link
The OP in this thread makes me really wanna go back to 2003 and go to that show.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah Jacob they are all good to great (xxp)
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Sunday, 1 September 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
― tylerw, Friday, August 30, 2013 2:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait what? is that why that documentary never happened?
TBF i'm totally sick of "obscure musician documentaries" and could do with a moritorium on them for the next 25 years
to anyone following his career and music it's obvious that hurley is pretty willful and wily and not just kind of folksy naïf wandering around pacific NW in a cloud of pot smoke. which is as it should be
hope he's made good money off of all the covers of "werewolf"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 1 September 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
From the article (by Byron Coley):
... It was around 2007 as well that Lisa Foti-Straus' ill-fated documentary, Elwood Snock & the Land of Lo-Fi, was in the works. Much footage was shot, many folks were interviewed, and Lisa had just about a final cut of the thing. Hurley didn't like the way it came out, though, so he nixed its release. Too bad. I thought it was pretty cool. There's even some boss animation of Boone & Jocko. But Hurley is picky about this stuff. “Yeah, I told them to go back to the drawing board,” he says. I mention that he did the same thing with the Snockument compilation that was being assembled by Non Sequitor in the early '90s. He objected to the versions of songs that Jad Fair and Loren Connors had recorded. ...
― jaywbabcock, Monday, 2 September 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:20 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 2 September 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
my partner ordered that issue of arthur weeks ago and it hasn't showed up, do you hear me arthur folks??
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 2 September 2013 02:48 (ten years ago) link
wait that documentary was in the works in 2007? i think I only happened across their website a few years ago, i wonder if it already was defunct by then. the website still promised the film was "forthcoming" and even had a way to "sponsor a song" (i.e. contribute to the project).
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 2 September 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
loren connors doing michael hurley is a really weird proposition
(Flesh - Yeah we got overwhelmed with orders but are almost caught up.)
― jaywbabcock, Monday, 2 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
whoa, you answered my internet call. nicely done. will look for it in the mail.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 2 September 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
(Flesh - I'm here often!)
― jaywbabcock, Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
HURLEY, MICHAELTitle: Land of Lo-FiLabel: MISSISSIPPI RECORDSFormat: LPPrice: $13.00Catalog #: MRP 052LP"You could be sitting there wondering why Mississippi releases such a huge amount of records by Michael Hurley (this is our eighth). To put it as mildly as we can - Hurley is by and large one of the greatest song writers of all time and we consider it an important part of our mission to get the world aware of his awesome talent. Here we have Hurley's latest batch of home recordings and believe me when I say they are some of his best songs ever. It's unusual for a man 50 years into his recording career to come up with some of his greatest songs yet, but here 'tis. Hurley plays heart breakers solo with guitar and/or organ accompaniment, along with three tracks where he is joined by the beautiful voice of Jolie Holland. Some incredible new songs such as the eerie 'Alligator in the Water,' the poignant and all too true 'Disaster at the Wheel,' the utterly cosmic 'Corridor,' the near avant garde 'Doin' the Opossum,' the stone cold intense 'You Got to Die' and on and on. True geniuses are hard to come by, so wake on up and give this record a long hard listen. If it doesn't move you, then I don't know what will."
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
i want
― ian, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah. jolieee, too.i really like the first side of the last new record he made & then the second i kinda like but mainly just cause the electric piano sounds so nice. ian you are at the front lines of this hurley dispatch, report back when you hear it.
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
I Still need a real copy of Blue Hills. And this new one, now, too.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 05:04 (ten years ago) link
was looking for this in my store yesterday, not there yet.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
anyone have a link where I can order that one? is it on forced exposure?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
ok, found it, nevermind!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
i kinda wanted one of the black friday RSD things this year --michael hurley 78rpm covering E.C. Ball's "Early Bird Always Gets The Worm."
― ian, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:01 (1 hour ago) Permalink
oh, i guess that cover is not on the 78... just on the new tribute comp.still want the 78.
― ian, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:02 (1 hour ago)
FE has these, not sure if they are still in stock
my copy of Land Of Lofi has a pressing flaw on the first side, I need to return it :( the dreaded "rhythmic swish".
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 03:29 (ten years ago) link
been listening to Long Journey a bunch. "In The Garden" is unnnnnnbelievable.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Are his new records that campfire cowboy folk like some of his older ones?
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
yep, there is not a whole lot of stylistic variation which is a plus imo
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
unless you mean First Songs - this sounds more like Armchair Journey and Hi Fi Snock Uptown.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
I need all his records.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
everyone needs all his records...!
― ian, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
i don't even have that many, but it makes me happy that there are so many more left for me to hear...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
and they're all good to great!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I finally tracked down Bellmeade Sessions this past summer after looking for years (it was on CD Baby, duh!) and there were several unheard-by-me tracks on it that just totally blew my mind, and I have been listening to the dude for a while.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
how come 10 years passed and no one mentioned this relatively famous masterpiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQcALI_EPE
― nostormo, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
plenty of Armchair Boogie love on this thread
I am going to see him on Friday!!!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
sweedeedee might be my fave hurley song
is he touring around the USA or just playing around the pacific NW?
― extraterrestrial★squad (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
This is one of those discographies that I'm happy to take my time with.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
xp
he's just doing one of his regular Portland gigs
― sleeve, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
Land of Lo Fi came today, and the MR reish of Hi Fi cuz I needed it too.Blue Hills was in the online catalog, too, but was discovered to be out of stock.shoot.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
some old news, and a new free download of his anti-Monsanto compilation
http://www.snockonews.net/
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 13 December 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
http://www.coastweekend.com/cw/music/20150730/five-minutes-with-michael-hurley
What are you working on now?
I’m working on three albums at the same time. One is we are releasing a tape from 1976. Another is my new Mississippi Records release, which is a current events kind of thing. And then I’m going to do what you call a vanity publishing — put out my own CD. It’s on my own label, you might say, but I really don’t have a label. Mostly I will handle the distribution myself, but if it starts to sell rapidly I might hook up with a distributor. It’s my own merch table project.
wonder if that '76 tape is the live 'Redbirds' prev. released as cassette/CDR
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 August 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Yeah that Redbirds tape (if I'm thinking of the right one) is probably my fave Hurley thing ever
― tylerw, Saturday, 29 August 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
I haven't seen the redbirds cdr, but there's a full version of that 1976 folk city show floating around with more tracks than what discogs lists on the cassette. Hopefully that's what they're preparing for release.
― city worker, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
yeah the CDR is the same as the cassette, just part of that great great show
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
oh ok, i'm thinking of a different show (though the folk city gig is amazing too!). think it's the same era, though -- with "oh carol," "i can't help it if I'm still in love w/ you" etc... some live stuff here: http://www.ousterhout.net/mp3/mhurley.html
― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
whoah that link has some shows I don't have, thanks
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
flac too if that's what you're into: http://www.ousterhout.net/lossless/mhurley.html
― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
fuck yeah
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
nice video footage & a cover of "Pastures Of Plenty"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnxQ1uh354Q
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 September 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
and another one... there's also some videos from PDX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6-mLGuOvEY
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 September 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
for any interested people in nz: free michael hurley performance in aotea square this month! also playing queenstown & port chalmers!
http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/10631/Michael-Hurley-To-Perform-Three-New-Zealand-Shows-Next-Week.utr
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 09:38 (eight years ago) link
^^^o man, that was magic! getting to see hurley play live (to use a cliche) was a dream come true... amazing!
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 16 January 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
long set but he really was mesmerising. short opening set from david kilgour was like icing on the cake!
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 16 January 2016 11:26 (eight years ago) link
I'll actually be in town for the Aotea Square show, which should be great (the Chills were surprisingly suited to a balmy afternoon). Wish I could have made it to the Chicks show with it closing soon ... last time I was there was Lines of Flight yeeears ago.
― etc, Saturday, 16 January 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link
l.o.f. is always a good time! last night's crowd was like playing spot the flying nun recording artist. & yeah, chicks closing is a major bummer :-/
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 17 January 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
limited edition cassette "tour release" from AUS/NZ:
https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Hurley-Australia-New-Zealand-2016/release/8615401
anybody know anything about the Korean reissues of Blue Navigator? With obi strips, supposedly remastered. I have an mint OG Blue Navigator LP so no real need for a reissue. Are these CDs legit?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Michael-Hurley-Blue-Navigator-MINI-LP-CD-NEW-SEALED-/322148911938?hash=item4b01924b42:m:mNJjwLLCPdXsG1n-gPFeH_A
― sleeve, Friday, 17 June 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
i was told by michael hurley that they are /not/ legit
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
lame! sleeve, i will buy your mint OG Blue Navigator LP for $25 thank u
― tylerw, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
i think you mean, "sad!"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
xxp thanks, I assumed as much.
the two Future Days CD reissues (Armchair Boogie and Hi Fi Snock Uptown) are remastered for real and sound very very good, fwiw
― sleeve, Friday, 17 June 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
yeah, the recent vinyl and CD reissues sound better than the mississippi records reissues which (while officially approved of by hurley, at least) were probably needledrops.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 17 June 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
btw what is future days? it's just an imprint of light in the attic? the copyright info on those CD reissues is confusing... they say manufactured by warner bros special products/rhino records, copyright warners/raccoon, but released by light in the attic. but then they have the "future days" logo and catalogue number.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 17 June 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
i just saw this dude in louisville btw.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 17 June 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
limited edition cassette "tour release" from AUS/NZ
^would buy. was talking to a guy after the show i saw & apparently at the kurt vile show the night before there'd been a jam involving hurley & alastair galbraith o_O
also new lp on the way... release date has been moved forward a couple of times since i first heard about it.
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
needledrops: reminds me, I've read that Hurley used to mail out his own homemade needledrop cassettes, made w dirty needles--- at least, this was reportedly allegedly the experience of a writer's friend (uh-huh), who responded to the offer on the back of a Hurley LP, think it was, according to The Spin Guide To Alternative Rock, published in the mid-90s.
― dow, Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
Caveat, 90s fans!
― dow, Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:28 (seven years ago) link
well, i once sent him a check for some LPs and never got it. i emailed him about it, he apologized, but i still never got anything. i figure the enjoyment i've gotten out of his records over the years is worse losing $40.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
needledrops: reminds me, I've read that Hurley used to mail out his own homemade needledrop cassettes, made w dirty needles-
I have a few of these and don't remember them sounding any worse than any other nth generation dub, but it's been years and years since I've listened to them. For a while it was the cheapest version of Armchair Boogie available and the LP seemed to get even more scarce after Cat Power covered a few of his songs back in the day.
I love these reissue-crazy times!
― Wimmels, Saturday, 18 June 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
I have an extra ticket at union pool right now! Just in case anyone needs it
― Evan, Friday, 14 April 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
so is hi fi snock uptown like weird kkk level racist? i'm thinking "old black crow" and "the twilight zone".
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Saturday, 2 December 2017 07:05 (six years ago) link
uh... no?
"twilight zone" is monster-ist i guess...?
maybe the line in "trinidad" about squeezing a monkey man but that is a huge stretch.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 2 December 2017 07:18 (six years ago) link
never got that vibe
― sleeve, Saturday, 2 December 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
p sure "Old Black Crow" is about a bird.
Saw him at Big Ears this year, Hurley's totally delightful.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 2 December 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
p sure "Old Black Crow" is about a bird.Saw him at Big Ears this year, Hurley's totally delightful.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 2 December 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
don't wanna get anyone's hopes up too much but I had to share this exchange that I had with the new Rounder Records prez, who is an acquaintance of mine w/many mutual friends (same scene, different years)
sleeve: sooo... apparently the sessions for the Unholy Modal Rounders/Michael Hurley/Clamtones all time classic "Have Moicy" album on Rounder (1976) included 19 songs, and the official release has 12... sure would be nice to have an expanded reissue! just sayin'
prez: I can make this a priority. We're on the same page bro.
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
was wondering what to listen to this morning. thread comes to rescue.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
<3
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
feel so lucky to have seen him three times now.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 13 May 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
omg
― Isi, Sunday, 13 May 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
I made a 5-disc collection of unreleased live tracks, mostly covers with a few Hurley gems in there. Spanning 40 years (and 40 shows, by chance):
http://shardsofbeauty.blogspot.com/2018/06/michael-hurley-40-years.html
1st disc is the cream of the crop, then the next four discs cover the 40 years chronologically.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
this really is the best — thank you for putting it together.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
thanks for boosting the signal!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Awesome thanks so much for putting this together
― Evan, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
will be listening! amazing effort.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 5 July 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
semi-recent interview, nice and long:
https://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2018/04/michael-hurley-its-just-a-compulsion-it-wont-go-away-interview-by-erica-dunn/
― sleeve, Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
he was just incredible last night, first time he's come back to Eugene in almost ten years (the last time was when he played at our house). I counted eight songs I was unfamiliar with/had never heard, out of a 90-minute set.
at this point he's the best living American singer/songwriter as far as I'm concerned.
― #BreakingTheWorld (sleeve), Sunday, 18 November 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
wow....going to see him in Portland in 2 weeks
― campreverb, Sunday, 18 November 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
where? Laurelthurst?
― #BreakingTheWorld (sleeve), Sunday, 18 November 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/lonnie-holley-toody-cole-ural-thomas-michael-hurley-and-more/
― campreverb, Sunday, 18 November 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
whoa that looks amazing
― #BreakingTheWorld (sleeve), Sunday, 18 November 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
pretty excited, a friend of mine is playing with Lonnie.
― campreverb, Sunday, 18 November 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
yessssss
https://michaelhurley.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-of-the-foxgloves
July is when the foxgloves bloom in Astoria, Oregon. July is also Michael Hurley’s favorite month, whether it finds him at home in Astoria or somewhere else. He’s often somewhere else, but last summer he was home, as reasonable people were, which is where and when The Time of the Foxgloves began.
The Rope Room studio, in the Fort George brewery complex, was the place. After several sessions transferring home recordings Michael had made over the past few years on his stalwart TEAC A-3340S four-track tape machine, friends and colleagues—some local, some further flung—sang, played, and engineered what is the most varied, hi-fi Snock album heard in a while; arguably since 1988’s Watertower. Four different banjos are played by four different banjoists; there’s a battery of harmony singers (Kati Clayborn, Lindsay Clark, Josephine Foster, Betsy Nichols); upright bass, baritone ukulele, and bass clarinet address the lower ends. Beloved songs from albums past—“Lush Green Trees” (from Watertower); “Love Is the Closest Thing” (as “Time Is Right” on 1995’s Parsnip Snips)—are reassembled with some new elements (e.g., xylophone) but, lacking none of their original wonder or impact, the new versions impart an uncanny sense of continuity, as though they’ve been slowly but unceasingly evolving in the interim. (This phenomenon is a central quality of Michael Hurley performances on both records and stages). “Se Fue En La Noche” will be familiar to anyone who’s seen a Snock show over the last half-dozen years—“better put your shoesies on before you die of the cold” being among Michael’s more unforgettable adjurations—but surprisingly this is its first appearance on record. The old reliable Wurlitzer A200, instantly identifiable to all fans of Bellemeade Phonics productions, leads the way on “Blondes and Redheads,” where it’s accompanied by a nylon-stringed slide guitar. One of the banjos—this one played by Snock—is joined on “Knocko the Monk” by a sighing pump organ, making a prototypical Hurley instrumental into something disorientingly but satisfyingly wistful. Twin fiddles fiddle on opener “Are You Here For the Festival?”, this listener’s favorite recent song of Michael's since “The Corridor" (c. 2010).
“Are You Here...” came to Hurley this past June. He was out in the yard, cutting back wild blackberry. It was his second June running without a trip to Ohio for the Nelsonville Festival; it was called off this year too. Home in July to witness the foxgloves bloom again, he saw them torched come August by the extreme heat that assaulted the Pacific Northwest. But time and Snock soldier on undaunted. He’ll turn 80 in December, just after this record’s release. The Time of the Foxgloves is now.
–Nathan Salsburg, October 2021 credits
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
Time Of The Foxgloves is out today, at least the vinyl showed up in my mailbox. Sounds great.
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
I'm excited about it!
Also I've trying to research how to inquire about purchasing any of his artwork and cannot seem to get anywhere with that...
― Evan, Thursday, 9 December 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
tolerable writeup in The Guardian, glad to see him getting recognition
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/13/folk-singer-michael-hurley-interview
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
i adore hurley but it's really tied up with a past relationship that still hurts
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 13 December 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
Mine is delayed, but excited to get it next week.
― ma dmac's fury road (PBKR), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
Fucking lol at the "weird kkk level racist" shit. Never change ILM!
― JackMyFruit, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
cool username, jackmyfruit
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
new record is fantastic — there are times when his vocals are gruff (even for Hurley), but by the end, he's crooning beautifully. long live snock!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
I really love the instrumental that opens side b, "Knocko The Monk" I think?
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
First listen: distinctive, and sometimes subtle, turns in all these, as written, played: his Wurlitzer piano emphasizing the colors of "Blondes and Redheads," also digging the bass clarinet x half-circle of other voices around his (didn't really notice the wear that much, not after those 100 songs of Peter Stampfel's 20th Century, which I was amazedballed by over on the Holy Modal Rounders thread).
― dow, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
Ian and me in chat:
floyd's headSteve…, Mississippi is reissuing sweet korn on LP, but without two of the best cuts wtfNo Barbara Allen?? Negatory romance??
floyd's headPlease have a word with someone about this
You sentI SAW THAT
You sentan absolute outrage
You sentI blame Hurley himself tbh
You senthe always does shit like that, see also Wolfways
floyd's headInappropriate
floyd's headI’m still gonna fucking buy it tho 😕
You sentlol same
You sentgotta have the unreleased track
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 22 June 2023 15:53 (ten months ago) link
https://michaelhurley.bandcamp.com/album/sweetkorn
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 22 June 2023 15:54 (ten months ago) link
Seen him 3-4 times already this year in Portland, once opening for Will Oldham in a midsize theater, once in a little cider bar releasing this album ^^, and two more times at a bar he plays regularly. Always enjoying him.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 22 June 2023 15:59 (ten months ago) link
last time I saw him (2019? pre-pandemic, also saw a pandemic zoom kitchen show) he was incredible, he's at some kind of peak
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:03 (ten months ago) link