{"id":661598,"date":"2025-04-09T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/revisiting-michael-hurleys-armchair-boogie-a-freak-folk-masterpiece-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:00:22","slug":"revisiting-michael-hurleys-armchair-boogie-a-freak-folk-masterpiece-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/revisiting-michael-hurleys-armchair-boogie-a-freak-folk-masterpiece-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Michael Hurley\u2019s Armchair Boogie, a freak-folk masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269582\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      On Michael Hurley, the werewolf in the easy chair\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      The recently deceased \u201cGodfather of freak folk\u201d established his left-field aesthetic with <i>Armchair Boogie<\/i>, an album equal parts mournful and serene.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_SarahTaft_ng2zfq\/michael-hurley-photo-by-sarah-taft.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Revisiting Michael Hurley\u2019s &lt;i&gt;Armchair Boogie&lt;\/i&gt;, a freak-folk masterpiece\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Michael Hurley. 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His movements are labored; someone else had to plug his guitar into an unassuming, knee-high amp. Nevertheless, he plays for an hour, his fingerpicked chords and hoarse tenor voice reverberating against pews packed with the music nerds who\u2019ve gathered in Knoxville, Tennessee for Big Ears Festival. He plays a song about an easy chair somewhere in that state, a song about a hobo talking to a railway track. Mostly, he plays songs about pies.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The man is freak-folk progenitor Michael Hurley. He performed again in Knoxville the following day, for a much smaller crowd packed elbow to elbow into the side room of a Scottish pub. The day after that \u2014 his last full day on Earth \u2014 he crossed a mountain range to play for a sell-out crowd of roughly 265 in Asheville, North Carolina. The next day, after returning to northwest Oregon, his home base for the past two decades, he died.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269584\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/default_vgscql\/michael-hurley-armchair-boogie-tribute.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Revisiting Michael Hurley\u2019s &lt;i&gt;Armchair Boogie&lt;\/i&gt;, a freak-folk masterpiece\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269578\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            On the front cover of Hurley\u2019s second album, 1971\u2019s <i>Armchair Boogie<\/i>, a humanoid, watercolor wolf named Boone sleeps in a deep-crimson velvet armchair. The blue-and-yellow polka-dotted drapes hanging from the wooden slats of his country shack have blown open to reveal rolling hills and a starry sky with a low crescent moon. Boone is one of two jocular, bean-loving wolves who grace the covers of many of Hurley\u2019s albums and are the main characters of a comics <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> he continued to publish throughout his prolific, 60-year music career. (The other wolf is Jocko, who wears horse blinders \u201cto keep him from seeing the sights and going wild,\u201d Hurley explained in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.furious.com\/perfect\/michaelhurley.html\">a wild 1997 interview with <i>Popwatch Magazine<\/i><\/a>.)\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Like the Jocko and Boone comics, Hurley\u2019s music was steady, though far from static: He\u2019s fluctuated in style through the years, but his home was always a winking but infinitely wise strain of folk-informed blues. The grinning wolf and the sage were with him in all of his songs, revealing themselves as they saw fit.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269583\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"michael hurley - werewolf\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aZ5xNUNGm-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('269583');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269579\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>Armchair Boogie<\/i> opens with \u201cWerewolf,\u201d a track that first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in Hurley\u2019s catalog as \u201cThe Werewolf Song\u201d \u2014 the closer of his 1964 debut, <i>First Songs<\/i> \u2014 and would go on to pop up on several more of his studio and live records over the next half-century. It\u2019s a fantastical, minor-key murder ballad that begins in the third person before switching to the wolf\u2019s gruesome point of view. \u201cNobody, nobody, nobody knows \/ How much I love the maiden as I tear off her clothes,\u201d the wolf sings. He\u2019s not entirely unsympathetic, though. \u201cNobody, nobody knows of my pain,\u201d he continues, \u201cWhen I see it has risen, that full moon again.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Throughout <i>Armchair Boogie<\/i>, Hurley sings from the perspectives of richly rendered characters: He\u2019s an English nobleman with a nasal, affected caricature of an accent that doesn\u2019t sound anything like what one might imagine an English noblement would. \u201cOh, oi am an English nobleman \/ A nobleman am oi,\u201d he sings. \u201cMy dignity would be besmirched \/ If you hit me in the face with a pie.\u201d He\u2019s a hard-luck lover, begging for empathy here (\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4vxzjgFW_uU&amp;ab_channel=MockyRock\">Be Kind to Me<\/a>,\u201d a cover of Smiley Lewis\u2019 1955 New Orleans blues\/soul single \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Oyyq4Fj-ndo&amp;ab_channel=randomandrare\">Come On<\/a>,\u201d features backing vocals from Hurley\u2019s older sister Magpie, who introduced him to Fats Domino and, presumably, Smiley Lewis), reminiscing bittersweetly on a relationship with a difficult woman named Sweedeedee there.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Elsewhere, he\u2019s Jocko, singing the blues while claiming he\u2019s never had it. Elsewhere still, he\u2019s a sweetly suicidal stargazer, his sister by his side once again. Later, he\u2019s a hapless romantic, hoping the return of the swallows to Capistrano Beach, California will bring his lover back. Through it all, Hurley is a consummate troubadour, playing guitar and piano next to a wayward cast of characters: his sister Magpie on backing vocals, for example, and his literal partner in crime Robin Remaily (the two robbed trains together for produce they\u2019d then sell to Chinatown markets, Hurley said in the same <i>Popwatch<\/i> interview) on fiddle and mandolin. His genre leanings change from song to song \u2014 Hurley never considered himself a \u201cfolk singer,\u201d though he didn\u2019t mind the term \u201coutsider artist,\u201d he told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/vishkhanna.com\/2018\/09\/11\/ep-425-michael-hurley\/\">Kreative Kontrol\u2019s Vish Khanna<\/a> \u2014 but their wandering structures create a psychogeographic interstate between his songs. \u201cI am a rubbertramp,\u201d he told <i>Popwatch<\/i> at age 45, reminiscing on his wheels-up lifestyle, \u201cas Gypsy Moon, Queen of the Hoboes, pointed out a few years ago.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269587\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Hurley - Penguins\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hLqFkXs3xTI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('269587');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269585\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Then, there\u2019s \u201cPenguins,\u201d <i>Armchair Boogie<\/i>\u2019s wordless closer and one of the most beautiful tracks ever set to wax \u2014 a remarkable achievement considering its lead instrument is Hurley pretending to be a trumpet. Using only his mock trumpet voice, he toots a heartbreaking melody, accompanied by Michael Kane\u2019s real cornet. \u201cHe was seated across the room from me, more distant from the mike used, so that the cornet and the mock trumpet\u2019s volume levels were balanced,\u201d said Hurley to <i>Popwatch<\/i>. The effect is one that resonates across his work: Between the cartoon werewolves, horrid English accents, and pies to the face resonates a profound sadness. \u201cSeems like everybody \/ Got a little hard luck sometime,\u201d he sings on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qnRdnfOrqp0&amp;ab_channel=talm\">Sweedeedee<\/a>,\u201d elevating to the high end of his register.  \u201cAnd I know one thing for sure, baby \/ I&#8217;ve been having mine.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <b><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269581\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            After <i>Armchair Boogie<\/i>, Hurley went on to release close to 30 more albums with original artwork and dozens more cassette-only projects, most of the latter lost to time. In their titles, many of these works contained \u201cSnock,\u201d a nickname he\u2019d earned during his rowdy days and held like a badge of honor for the rest of his life. In 1976, he dropped <i>Have Moicy!<\/i>, a collaboration with The Unholy Modal Rounders and Jeffrey Frederick &amp; the Clamtones that would go on to become a certified cult classic. (A shoutout is due here to \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ugyq_IOn09A&amp;ab_channel=MichaelHurley-Topic\">Slurf Song<\/a>,\u201d a gorgeous cut about eating and shitting that recently found new life on a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M-wBfkEXZfc&amp;ab_channel=LUCY%28CooperB.Handy%29-Topic\">2024 track<\/a> by LUCY.) In 2021, he shared <i>The Time of the Foxgloves<\/i>, his first studio album in 12 years and the last one he\u2019d release within his lifetime.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Michael Hurley\u2019s passing marks the loss of one of the most original minds music has ever seen. It\u2019s tragic but also beautiful: He did what he loved up until the very end, an uncompromising vagabond crossing a country he\u2019d come to know better than most anyone after decades of rubbertramping. Unlike most aging artists, he continued to tour past his final release, but it\u2019s hard to believe there aren\u2019t many more Michael Hurley tracks tucked away somewhere, probably in plain sight.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cA recent piece of music I&#8217;ve composed was for the fiddle,\u201d he told <i>Popwatch<\/i>, responding to a question about how his songs come to him. \u201cI was layin&#8217; in bed supposed to have gone to sleep. Thoughts running thru my mind. I was thinking about the people I&#8217;d been hanging out with in Ohio, Kentucky. I recalled them saying Danielle played the fiddle, could play &#8220;Cluck Old Hen.&#8221; I once usetacould play that one. I tried to review the rune in my mind. Was that all there was to it? Wasn&#8217;t there a bridge? No, there wasn&#8217;t no bridge. Not much of a tune I guess. Should have a bridge. Bridges start runnin&#8217; thru my heart. Hey! I get up. Turn on the light. Fiddle up this bridge. Got it on tape. Would have gone to sleep and forgotten it if it had not been that I had the opportunity to record that night.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cAnother one before that; I&#8217;m just drooling at the guitar with the moose&#8230;disrelated thoughts&#8230;I&#8217;m not thinking about what my hands are doing. In the succession of my logics: &#8220;\u2019 stole the right to live, as if there was no time.\u2019 Lyrically and musically this all flowed right easily. I was performing it the next day.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-269588\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hurley_1_PatrickBunch_wj5k4z\/michael-hurley-photo-by-patrick-bunch.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Revisiting Michael Hurley\u2019s &lt;i&gt;Armchair Boogie&lt;\/i&gt;, a freak-folk masterpiece\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Michael Hurley. Photo by Patrick Bunch.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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