I like that it's a grab bag format spanning many years, wish he'd do another one like that.
― sleeve, Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
a few of the tracks are covers, but yeah, it's pretty much a straight hurley record.
― ian, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― ian, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ good EP.
― ian, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
When I was a puppy dog...
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
No idea about the vinyl, but I listened to Hi Fi Snock AND Snockgrass on a long drive today and it was perfect.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 19 July 2010 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
And a new version of tea song, which is great, cuz I don't have that first record.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
!!! what label!?!?
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Mississippi again. Great record.
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man my store better have that in tomorrow
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
saw it last friday. didn't pick it up due to no money.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
still dragging my heels on abner jay 2 for the same reason
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, psyched on the abner 2 band stuff, new version of "im so depressed" so sweet
― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
schlump, are you back in the UK?
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 06:37 (fourteen years ago) link
did pick up abner j 2, but not the m hurley. timing is everything. like the abner j, but miss the chatting between tracks.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 07:43 (fourteen years ago) link
xpsure 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.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
just got the new one. am enjoying it.
oddly the LP album art reminds me of CD art.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
wish mississippi would always use heavy-duty folkways-style sleeves.
you'd better stop that drinkinwhiskey willy
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
My digniteeee would be besmirchedif ya hit me in the facewith a poooiiiiiieeeee
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i drive a lousy rusty carand in that rig i can't get fari can't keep it under controli about lostthe steerin polei'm a wild childi aint so mildim reconciledto the bluuuues
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
and down the street come two twin girlstheir necks all wrapped in diamonds and pearlsand one stand on the leftthe other standon the right
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 27 January 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hope it was just a borrow!
― 69, Thursday, 27 January 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
jerks!!!
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
btw my wish should not be construed as approval of radio station library borrowing
― 69, Thursday, 27 January 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
our radio station doesn't even have a library :(
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 27 January 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 27 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Was worried about that too, so skipped the London shows.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Friday, 28 January 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― schlump, Friday, 28 January 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol yeah sorry, jeffrey lewis (they both draw comics tho, rite?)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i see the dishes over there, they fill me with despair
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally checked out Armchair Boogie and Snockgrass after only having Ancestral Swamp...glad to hear the older stuff is less slow-Oldhamy
― da croupier, Monday, 13 June 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 13 June 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Monday, 13 June 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 13 June 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
use your left hand / feels like someone else
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 June 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
that sounds like just the thing. will buy
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 14 August 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Sunday, 14 August 2011 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link
oh I think this will be better than Parsnips, this is fabulous news.
― sleeve, Monday, 15 August 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link