Michael Hurley "Bad Mr. Mike" LP
Michael Hurley "Bad Mr. Mike" LP
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- LP pressed on black vinyl
- Michael Hurley's 2016 masterpiece featuring original tracks and covers
- Stripped down home recordings
Michael Hurley's 2016 masterpiece. Stripped down home recordings of some of his finest songs such as The Corridor, The Moon Song, Beasley's Release and Boone And Jocko. Boundary pushing new material such as the banjo instrumental Dragging The Indian and Charona. Very personal and deep covers of some of Michael's favorite songs such as Lo Bonney and Cuckoo Rock.
Michael Hurley was one of the greatest songwriters ever to walk this green earth. This late period classic proves that he didn't lose a beat in his autumn years.
Artist Bio
If you haven’t been following his career since the 1970’s (when he was collaborating with the likes of the Holy Modal Rounders and Jesse Colin Young) then you probably discovered him in the past couple of years via Devendra Banhart’s & Andy Cabic’s label Gnomonsong, who have released Hurley’s recent recordings.
Hurley’s debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1965 on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Lead Belly’s Last Sessions. He was discovered by blues and jazz historian Frederick Ramsey III, and subsequently championed by boyhood friend Jesse Colin Young, who released Hurley’s next two album on The Youngbloods’ Warner Brother’s imprint, Raccoon. How’s that for cred?
In the 1970s, Hurley made three albums for Rounder Records; Have Moicy! (1975), Long Journey (1976), and Snockgrass (1980) which after being out of print for decades are now being reissued on Light In The Attic Records.
In recent years, tours with Son Volt and high praise from younger performers like Lucinda Williams, Vic Chesnutt, Calexico, and Cat Power, have increased Hurley’s legend.
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