Michael Hurley
Another Sunday, another cover
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Track:Dying Crapshooter Blues
Here's my new hero Michael Hurley covering Blind Willie McTell's "Dying Crapshooter Blues."If you're not familiar with Hurley one thing you should know is that Christgau called his 1976 album Have Moicy the greatest folk album of the rock age.I've reviewed his new album Ancestral Swamp for PopMatters, but it hasn't quite run yet. More later.He's touring pretty soon, too -- Hurley not McTell wh...
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Michael Hurley's Ancestral Swamp
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Album:The Ancestral Swamp
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I put up one of the covers from this 20th album by folk-blues master Michael Hurley a couple of Sundays ago. (http://mog.com/jenny/blog_post/119508) Here's the review, which ran last Friday in PopMatters.Michael HurleyThe Ancestral Swamp(Gnomonsong)US release date: 18 September 2007UK release date: 17 September 2007by Jennifer KellyMP3 of "Knockando"http://www.gnomonsong.com/mp3s/Michael_Hurl...
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Breaker One-Nine, Got my Rabbit Ears on Good Buddy
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I got a Evil Kneivel with a Salt Shaker, takin' his Chicken Lights out to the Meat Wagon for a Pickle Park. Keep it between the ditches and Smokey out of your britches. 10-4.
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Fine. Happy Horny Werewolf Day.
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Track:the werewolf
bq. "Always remember":http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3748 : Valentine’s Day is a Christian corruption of a "pagan festival":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia involving werewolves, blood and fucking. So wish people a happy Horny Werewolf Day and see what happens.No one feels as unrequited as a horny werewolf, so count your blessings, Valentines.bq. Once I saw him in the moonlight when the .
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new new new, part two.
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Michael Hurley. I do not know what I can say, that might not have already been said about this pioneer of freak folk.So I'll just post his new take on Gambling Charley, and let you hear what it's all about.
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