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·       MICHAEL HURLEY – ARMCHAIR BOOGIE (HURLEY’S SECOND ALBUM, FIRST FOR A MAJOR LABEL) - ORIGINAL 1971 WARNER BROTHERS/RACCOON STEREO LP WS-1915

 

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

 

 

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

 

 

·       ORIGINAL WHITE RACOON LABEL (WARNER/RACCOON STOCK LABELS AND WHITE PROMOTIONAL LABELS ARE VIRTUALLY IDENTIAL; BOTH ARE WHITE; THE ONLY THING THAT SETS PROMOTIONAL LABELS APART FROM THE STOCK LABELS IS THE PROMOTIONAL BANNER ON THE LABELS)

 

·       THE ALBUM FEATURES JESSE COLLIN YOUNG ON BASS AND GUITAR ON TWO TRACKS

 

·       INCLUDES ORIGINAL 8-PAGE COMIC BOOK,  ILLUSTRATED BY HURLEY, TITLED “BOONE & JOCKO IN THE BARREN, CHOKING LAND”.

 

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

 

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

 

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1B/-1B'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

 

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 8.

 

·       This album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

 

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

 

 

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Few artists have had such a recurring discographical relationship with one song as Michael Hurley has with "Werewolf"/"The Werewolf"/"The Werewolf Song." As its varied titles attest, the song has been tackled on more than one occasion by Hurley, from his very beginnings (1965's functionally-titled First Songs), through to three decades hence (1994's Wolfways).

 

For my Hurley money the definitive version is the one that kicks off his second LP, Armchair Boogie. Which, conveniently enough, also doubles as Hurley's most vital, enduring, endearing album. Recorded in 1969 but only released in 1971, it's an album of stark, strange folksongs; a mélange of traditional reels, lonesome ballads, and goofy jams all effortlessly bespeaking of a singular aesthetic and a solitary identity.

 

That identity is Hurley's oddball personality. Authoring a fantastical, royally-stoned songworld full of frolicking animals (both anthropomorphized and not), tortured bluesmen, and winsome portraits of domestic life, Hurley makes the mundane magical and the magical mundane. Similarly, his songs can seem, at times, rudimentary, yet there's intense sonic complexities at play; his keening voice, raw-stringed strums, and mercurial fiddling hit the ear in unusual ways, the sound both coming together and being pushed apart.

Outsider Bark

 

One can only imagine how much Armchair Boogie must've confounded audiences upon its release. These days, with freak-folk having flourished, there's a familiarity to hearing someone authoring this personal, this radical a take on traditionals. But, coming from a much more 'straight' era of folk revivalism, Hurley was an alien figure; standing alone as the vanguard of the New Weird America, 30 years before it'd come into vogue.

 

Over the years, Hurley's influence has grown, the litany of artists who've fallen under his spell growing with each passing year. For those who've worked back to Hurley by those who've collaborated with him (Tara Jane Oneil, Ida), released his records (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver), taken him on tour (Son Volt, Jolie Holland), or covered him (Espers, the Violent Femmes(!)), a large proportion may've discovered Hurley via Cat Power. Chan Marshall has covered Armchair Boogie songs thrice: devastatingly transforming the jocular, breezy, dudey "Sweedeedee," summoning the near-biblical menace in "Troubled Waters," and, even taking on Hurley's career-defining song.

 

So what is it that makes "Werewolf" so permeable that Hurley himself is continually drawn back to it? Narrated from the perspective of its protagonist, it's a study in the symbolic duality of the man-wolf; a tortured, lonesome, howling paean from a man who knows full well the terrors he causes by a full moon. It's about the suppressed animal nature of man, sure, but, via Hurley's telling, this song of the "Werewolf" becomes the ultimate outsider's lament.

 

(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY ANTHONY CAREW, ABOUT.COM)

 

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

 

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·                               CONDITION:

 

·                               THE RECORD

 

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

 

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

 

(b)          The album comes with its original, illustrated 8-page comic book intact

 

(c)           The record is apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either

 

(d)          White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 20:1 (NOTE: STOCK AND WHITE LABEL PROMO PRESSINGS OF THIS ALBUM HAVE NEAR-IDENTICAL WHITE LABELS; WHAT DIFFERENTIATES BETWEEN THE TWO IS THE PRESENCE OF THE PROMO BANNER ON THE WHITE PROMOTIONAL LABELS).

 

(e)           The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.

 

(f)            Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

 

 

·                               THE COVER

 

THE COVER IS ABOUT VERY GOOD+(+)

 

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

 

-         Cover has all three seams (top, bottom and spine) partially split,  as follows:

-         Top seam: between 2 and 4 inches  / 5 to 10 centimeters.

-         Bottom seam: less than 1 inch / 2.5 centimeters.

-         Spine: between 4 and 6 inches  / 10 to 15 centimeters.

 

-         Cover has three corners slightly worn / dinged (nothing significant)

 

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

 

-         Cover has a small peel-off mark, probably from the careless removal of the price sticker. (less than 1/2 square inch in size)

 

-         The cover has a few tiny scratch marks on the front side  (nothing significant)

 

-         Cover has some visible fraying/tattering on all three seams

 

 

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

 

 

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