* First ever reissue on vinyl.
* Freshly re-mastered, this LP sounds better than the CD which was mastered two decades ago
*180 gram LP housed in Stoughton tip-on old school type jacket including faithfully reproduced original artwork by Michael Hurley
* Fans include Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, and Andy Cabic of Vetiver
*Tracing the lineage and citing the fore-bearers of the New Weird America, one can’t help but mention the music of bizarre folk
singer/guitarist/artist Michael Hurley. 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 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.