Who likes Michael Hurley?

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.

Blue Navigator is good!

Michael was interviewed on this week's American Routes. fun interview, listen here:

http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/player/playlist/23078

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWAOJr5PcAI

Change your drawers!
Hey for what reason?
Them drawers... is out of season...

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.

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.

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!

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.

Been jamming Parsnip Snips, loving it.

I like that it's a grab bag format spanning many years, wish he'd do another one like that.

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.

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.

a few of the tracks are covers, but yeah, it's pretty much a straight hurley record.

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.

"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.

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

^^ good EP.

When I was a puppy dog...

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?

No idea about the vinyl, but I listened to Hi Fi Snock AND Snockgrass on a long drive today and it was perfect.

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.

And a new version of tea song, which is great, cuz I don't have that first record.

!!! what label!?!?

Mississippi again. Great record.

oh man my store better have that in tomorrow

saw it last friday. didn't pick it up due to no money.

still dragging my heels on abner jay 2 for the same reason

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.

yeah, psyched on the abner 2 band stuff, new version of "im so depressed" so sweet

schlump, are you back in the UK?

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

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.

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?)