Who likes Michael Hurley?

did pick up abner j 2, but not the m hurley. timing is everything. like the abner j, but miss the chatting between tracks.

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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.

just got the new one. am enjoying it.

oddly the LP album art reminds me of CD art.

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

you'd better stop that drinkin
whiskey willy

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

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

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

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.

hope it was just a borrow!

jerks!!!

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

Finally checked out Armchair Boogie and Snockgrass after only having Ancestral Swamp...glad to hear the older stuff is less slow-Oldhamy

"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.

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

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.

use your left hand / feels like someone else

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."

that sounds like just the thing. will buy

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.

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

lookin forward to this

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.

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.

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

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

I ordered that new album, excited.

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.

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.

bump 4 the work week

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.

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

he played it last time i saw it & sung a bunch of new (/diff) verses. it is a beaut.

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

so good

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!"

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.

haven't read but I can totally get behind avoiding an artist doc in today's oversaturated Awesome Lost Musician Rediscovered climate

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?

the next one you NEED is Armchair Boogie, but he's one of my absolute faves... buy anything you see, imo.

The OP in this thread makes me really wanna go back to 2003 and go to that show.

yeah Jacob they are all good to great (xxp)

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, 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"