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Fatboy Spring

Michael Hurley

Fatboy Spring

Mississippi Records

MR 094

LP Black $19
  • Originally released in 1972-73
  • Pressed on black vinyl
  • Liner notes written by Michael Hurley

Description

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 hard core Hurley fan & casual listener too. Deep & breezy. Comes with liner notes written by Michael.

Artist Bio

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 the 1970s, Hurley made three albums for Rounder Records; Have Moicy! (1975), Long Journey (1976), and Snockgrass (1980) which after being out of print for decades are now being...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Automatic Slim & The Fatboys
  • 2 Drivin' Wheel
  • 3 Ghost Woman Blues
  • 4 Long Legs
  • 5 Long John
  • 6 Move It On Over
  • 7 Watchin' The Show
  • 8 The Portland Water
  • 9 Singing Waterfall