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Michael Hurley (born c. December 20, 1941) is an American folk singer who was essential to the Greenwich folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He is able to play a wide variety of instruments. Michael Hurley is also a cartoonist and a painter. Michael Hurley's music is often described as "outsider folk." ==Career== Before starting his recording career Hurley contracted mononucleosis and needed to wait several years until he could sign to a record label. 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 his 2nd & 3rd albums on The Youngbloods' Warner Bros. imprint, Raccoon. In the late 1970s, Hurley made three albums for Rounder, all of which have since been reissued on CD. His 1976 LP ''Have Moicy!'', a collaboration with the Holy Modal Rounders and Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones, was named "the greatest folk album of the rock era" by ''The Village Voices Robert Christgau. In 1996, Koch Records released ''Wolfways'' with Hurley backed by Mickey Bones on drums. Tours with Son Volt and high praise from younger performers like Lucinda Williams, Vic Chesnutt, Woods, Calexico, Cat Power, Julian Lynch,〔http://pitchfork.com/news/42387-5-10-15-20-julian-lynch/〕 and Robin Holcomb followed. In 2001, Locust Music reissued Hurley's debut under the new title ''Blueberry Wine'' with new artwork contributed by Hurley. Gnomonsong released a new Michael Hurley album titled ''Ancestral Swamp'' on September 18, 2007. Backing was provided by longtime Hurley associate David Reisch of the Holy Modal Rounders and new friends Tara Jane O'Neil and Lewi Longmire. In 2010, Secret Seven Records (San Francisco) and Mississippi Records (Portland) teamed up to reissue 100 copies of Hurley's rarest album "Blue Navigator" on 8-track tape. (Hurley is a long-time collector of music on 8-track tapes.) In 2011, Hurley's first book of lyrics was released by the Quebec book publisher L'Oie de Cravan. It contains the original English lyrics to 19 of his songs calligraphed by the author, a foreword by critic Byron Coley and a French version by Marie Frankland, winner of the 2007 John-Glassco prize for translation. Hurley has performed at the annual Nelsonville Music Festival in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.〔“Nelsonville Music Festival.” Nelsonville Music Festival, n.d. Web. 25 October 2012.〕〔"Past Shows." Stuart's Opera House: Nelsonville, Ohio. Stuart's Opera House: Nelsonville, Ohio, n.d. Web. !8 October 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Hurley (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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