Less than a week before Michael Hurley's death, the singing, songwriting storyteller walked from the side room of a cozy Scottish pub in the Old City of Knoxville, Tennessee, and stepped onto a ...

A folk troubadour with an eclectic style, he built a devoted following for his songs about love, death, drinking and a ...

Michael Hurley, a unique guitarist and songwriter known as the ‘Godfather of freak folk,’ died last week at the age of 83.

Michael Hurley, the singer-songwriter known as the “Godfather of freak folk,” has died. Hurley passed away earlier this month ...

Hurley spent more than a decade gigging around Vermont bars and ski resorts, a relative unknown. But in recent decades, he’s garnered a cult following.

Courtesy of Sarah Taft Michael Hurley did not want to end his week in Knoxville. The idiosyncratic songwriter and cartoonist had been coming to the East Tennessee city for decades, but his trip ...

Mostly, he plays songs about pies. 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 ...