Hurley, Michael - Back Home With Drifting Woods Hunted Down (Clear Vinyl

Hurley, Michael - Back Home With Drifting Woods Hunted Down (Clear VinylThe recordings Contained herein are contained here after many years on the shelf" So begin Michael Hurley's notes to these unbelievably great recordings from 1964, recorded by Fred Ramsey as part of the same sessions that resulted in Michael's First Songs LP on Folkways. Side A starts with What'llya Do, What'llya Say?, a pretty psychedelic classic that can very well put you into some kinda trance. After that we hear The Blues Had Gone Away a sad

2) Never Can Say Goodbye

New Orleans and it's community helped meld the forces at play on the album

Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Early Version)

A Spoonful Blues

they're lie detectors

" There's catharsis when it's needed most

Ventura Highway

while the title-esque track "Come Alive" is a stunning example of their new found muscle

and the writing is buoyant and soulful to match

9 Shot at Me

’ Even so

a small studio on a working farm outside of Dublin