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 ...

When the folk musician Michael Hurley died in Portland this April at the age of 83, shortly after playing his final gigs in Tennessee and North Carolina, the Pacific Northwest lost a local legend that ...

The Guitarist obituary headline, “Michael Hurley, guitarist and singer/songwriter known as the ‘Godfather of freak folk,’ dies at 83,” was a real attention-grabber among the slew of Google Alerts the ...

We lost folk cult legend Michael Hurley this spring; he passed away at age 83 just after playing Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival. He had just finished a new album and that has now been announced: Broken ...

Michael Hurley, the singer-songwriter who emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s and became an influential outsider artist, has died. He was 83. In addition to releasing over 30 ...

Michael Hurley wasn’t your typical singer-songwriter. So it would only follow that a concert dedicated to his music would be something a little bit different too. “I thought that it would be really ...

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