Michael Hurley, the singer-songwriter who emerged from the ’60s Greenwich Village scene to become a legend of outsider folk music, has died. His family issued a statement confirming the death to Rolling Stone: “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley. The ‘Godfather of freak folk’ was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit. He alone was Snock. There is no oth...
Michael Hurley, the singer-songwriter who emerged from the ’60s Greenwich Village scene to become a legend of outsider folk music, has died. His family issued a statement confirming the death to Rolling Stone: “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley. The ‘Godfather of freak folk’ was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit. He alone was Snock. There is no oth...
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