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Unplayed copy.  NOw out of print.

This is the Mississippi reissue from 2010

Fantastic remaster on this edition.

One of Hurley's best!

"Soon after Armchair Boogie was released, the Holy Modal Rounders changed line-ups again, taking on Robin Remaily as a full member, and soliciting Hurley for cover art for their fifth LP, Good Taste Is Timeless (Metromedia, 1971). His cartoon cover—of the band in full flight with Boone and Jocko lurking in the background is a classic, and it’s also the third of theirs in a row to include at least one Hurley tune. Even if Michael didn’t give a hoot himself, there were plenty of people who wished him well. One of the less-expected tributes was on the solo debut LP by UK folk artist, Barry Dransfield. His eponymous 1972 LP on the legendary UK Polydor subsidiary Folk Mill, contains a cover of ‘The Werewolf,’ apparently learned from the First Songs. Because of the album’s extreme rarity, this cover was all but unknown until it surfaced on a Hurley-oriented radio broadcast in the mid ’80s. Maybe there are still some unknown versions lurking out there still.

For the follow-up to Armchair Boogie, Hurley drove to the Youngbloods’ home turf in Northern California. Upon arriving, he discovered things were not good. There was a lot of friction within the band, and Young was too preoccupied to find time for his record. Luckily another Youngblood, Lowell “Banana” Levinger (who’d been in Boston band, The Trolls, with Michael Kane) offered to step in. But first, there was a Raccoon Records package tour to do.

“I went on tour with the Youngbloods and Earthquake and a band called High Country,” says Hurley. “All up and down the West Coast. I was delighted with all that. Then after the tour, nothing was happening for a long while. I was living in my truck with my girlfriend, and Banana could see that this was not proper decorum for the county. The cops would wake us up every morning. ‘You can’t park here.’ That was in Marin. For a while we lived in Michael Kane’s house. Michael had a tremendous brewing operation going at that time. His whole porch was stacked up with brewed beer. He had ginger beer. He had spruce beer. His spruce beer—I’d really like to have a bottle of that right now. He’d say, ‘You know how beer makes you sleepy? Well, this beer wakes you up! It’s spruce!’”

The resulting album, Hi Fi Snock Uptown is another masterpiece. Recorded with all of the Youngbloods but Jesse, much of it has a super warm small combo sound that compliments the intimacy of the songs perfectly. Hurley’s voice still has a bit of a wild edge, but it’s all contained beautifully, and it has many memorable tunes—‘Water Train,’ ‘Twilight Zone,’ ‘In Florida,’ ‘Mr. Whiskerwits’ and ‘Eyes Eyes.’ One of Hurley’s most beautiful songs ever, its lyrics typify the alchemy of which he seems uniquely capable.

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