First Songs

by Mike Hurley

First Songs cover art

Michael Hurley's debut was recorded by Frederic Ramsey on the same reel-to-reel equipment used for Lead Belly's final sessions. The bare, unpolished acoustic guitar playing underscores his distinctively eccentric, rural storytelling and melancholic country-blues aesthetic.

Genres

  • Contemporary Folk
  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. Blue Mountain
  2. You Get Down By The Pool Hall Clickety Clack (Sister Song)
  3. I Like My Wine
  4. No, No, No, I Won't Come (Go) Down No More
  5. The Tea Song
  6. Just A Bum
  7. Raven Rock (They Took Away The Diesel)
  8. Fat Mama
  9. The Animal Song (If I Could Ramble Like A Hound)
  10. Captain Kidd
  11. Intersoular Blues
  12. The Werewolf Song