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

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

Michael Hurley, the folk artist and singer-songwriter who emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s, has ...

Sometimes called the father of freak-folk, the 83-year-old singer-songwriter lived, worked and died on his own terms.

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 ...