Who likes Michael Hurley?

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Inveterate fumbler of keys,pitches and tumblers full of "brown" drinks,Michael Hurley will be at the Hudson River Theater in Hudson NY this Mon May 5th at 8pm..opening are Charlambides frontthing Tom Carter and ace outster Jack Rose of Pelt..all who train up are invited to sleep over and I will make breakfast in the morning.PS-Sorry this is not a question

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

i like michael hurley.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

so do i. i like everything.

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

me for sure. Snockgrass is grate, so is Have Moicy! (best collaborative album evah!)--not so into Blueberry Wine but maybe I'll give it another spin and be proven wrong...

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

i like how he records the same songs or minor variations on the same songs over and over and over.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

Seeing Michael Hurley often in tiny empty clubs is one of the great things about living in Ohio.

I have Blue Navigator on mp3, amt.

― J (Jay), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

(salivates)

Any way you could send it to me???

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

I could probably do that. It's at home--I'll see what I can do.

― J (Jay), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Lots of Hurley shows on Dimeadozen right now, if y'all are interested...

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 11 March 2006 23:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

hey someone promised to send me Blue Navigator on MP3s ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO AHEM

:-)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

I love michael hurley.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 March 2006 14:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I saw him last night at the Pilot Light in Knoxville, and he was charming and funny and great.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

I grown addicted to him over the past few months. I was turned on to his stuff via an Espers cover of "Blue Mountain". I'm going to see him on tuesday with the singer from Espers!!

― peter x (bucksbreeze), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

im gonna put on
dr snock
tara jane o neill
samara lubelski
ida
on may 20th in troy ny
if anyone wants details email me

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

i like him. i've always wondered about the CH3COOC6H4COOH tales though.

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

friday in brooklyn @ syrup room:
michael hurley
major stars
endless boogie
OM.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

That is a fucking line-up right there. Wow. Might have to try to make it.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

I love Michael Hurley. So does Ian.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yup. We love Michael Hurley.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

ENDLESS ARMCHAIR BOOGIE

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

I didn't think you were talking about the Riverdance guy for long, after I clicked on the thread.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

you made the same joke twice, steve.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

My daughter loves michael hurley's music. He was the first she new by name and can spot right off. When we saw him at the Montague Book Mill a couple years back she was so excited to get her picture taken with him -- he was kind enough to do a sing along 'bout a horse's ass just for her.

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

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― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Who IS Michael Hurley???

― confused, Friday, 28 April 2006 01:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

Legendary Singer Songwriter Michael Hurley To Perform In Albany NY
Region
Show Also Features Tara Jane O'Neil and Samara Lubelski and memebers of Ida

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

ya'll should go.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

second that... if you're within reasonable range (oklahoma, fer instance) make the trip out. I bet the space is pretty swell as well.

― nick ring (nick ring), Friday, 12 May 2006 03:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

he wanted green stuff this past weekend, but we didn't have any to give him :(

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

absinthe?

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

I tried to start up a conversation about Vermont with him once, but he wasn't having it. I mean, he *was*, but he also kind of wasn't. It was awkward. I love Vermont. or, I lovermont as the bumper sticker used to say. anyway, he needs to come back to chicago soon. Come back, Michael!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

he had never heard of Wells or Lake St. Catherine, so the whole thing was kind of a non-starter. Maybe he lives more in Jim Wentworth territory, i can't remember..

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

no v#t#v#r show after all, deej. guess you won't be visiting. the dude at the club dropped the ball. (the club is ass. ben lee for 20 buxx? wtf?)

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hurley lives in Astoria Oregon these days (not sure if Stormy knew that or not). Glad he's touring, wish he played in Eugene more often but it doesn't have the draw that Portland does.

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

o well,ill come out anyways..ben lee on green stuff is worth 7 buxx

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

nah, I don't know where he lives ... last i knew it wuz the VT

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

he lived in portland, maine, for a long time... and he's playing there in a few weeks at local 188. dunno where he is now, though.

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 12 May 2006 05:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

I am broadcasting a four hour special on Michael Hurley on Thursday 5/18 from 6PM-10PM eastern daylight time, on WRPI-FM 91.5 Troy NY (webcast on www.wrpi.org). we'll do official recordings, including material from Armchair Boogie, HiFi Snock, Parsnip Snips and Blue Navigator, and the other material as well. Nothing from the cassettes this time, maybe another time. I'd love to hear from people who got some of the dimeadozen downloads.
Put "Michael Hurley" in the title of any emails you may send me at kjr24@cornell.edu or at willow_17@msn.com.

― Kevin Roberts, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

booya

http://grown-so-ugly.blogspot.com/

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

can't go wrong with Wolfways or Snockgrass or Have Moicy

― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

Ggo go go, and let us know how it is!

― ian, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

awesome!

― bb, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

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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 (2 years ago) Permalink

!!! what label!?!?

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

Mississippi again. Great record.

― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

oh man my store better have that in tomorrow

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

schlump, are you back in the UK?

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 06:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

xp
sure 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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

wish mississippi would always use heavy-duty folkways-style sleeves.

― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2010 00:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

you'd better stop that drinkin
whiskey willy

― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 18:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

My digniteeee would be besmirched
if ya hit me in the face
with a poooiiiiiieeeee

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

i drive a lousy rusty car
and in that rig i can't get far
i can't keep it under control
i about lost
the steerin pole
i'm a wild child
i aint so mild
im reconciled
to the bluuuues

― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

and down the street come two twin girls
their necks all wrapped in diamonds and pearls
and one stand on the left
the other stand
on the right

― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

hope it was just a borrow!

― 69, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

jerks!!!

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

btw my wish should not be construed as approval of radio station library borrowing

― 69, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

our radio station doesn't even have a library :(

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

Was worried about that too, so skipped the London shows.

― Wandering Boy Poet, Friday, 28 January 2011 13:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol yeah sorry, jeffrey lewis (they both draw comics tho, rite?)

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

oh i see the dishes over there, they fill me with despair

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

"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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

use your left hand / feels like someone else

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 June 2011 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

that sounds like just the thing. will buy

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 14 August 2011 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh I think this will be better than Parsnips, this is fabulous news.

― sleeve, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

lookin forward to this

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, tons, tons of portland shows. dude was def out east recently though

― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 08:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

...I'll just go away, and I won't no where I'm going...

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

I ordered that new album, excited.

― sleeve, Thursday, 18 August 2011 19:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

I ain't sad
I ain't mad
but I'm feelin' kinda bad
since I moved to the county
where I live
it's somewhere between
a piece of firewood
and a food stamp
and an ol'
ten dollar gig (ten dollar gig)
comin' up (comin' up)
at the
end 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 (7 months ago) Permalink

bump 4 the work week

― sleeve, Monday, 22 October 2012 21:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

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 (7 months ago) Permalink

I was singing that line to my wife last night! We sing it on a regular basis.

― sleeve, Monday, 22 October 2012 23:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

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 (6 months ago) Permalink

Sleeve: "Dishes over the-ere..."
Mrs. Sleeve: "Fill me with despai-air..."

― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:41 (6 months ago) Permalink

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