Who likes Michael Hurley?

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.

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^^ 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?)

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