The Time Of The Foxgloves

Description

Legendary folk singer Michael Hurley releases his first album in 12 years. The Time of the Foxgloves features eleven songs recorded in Astoria, Oregon, during the short period when the foxgloves bloom. Michael began shaping this set of songs at home in recent years. Then friends and collaborators joined him or contributed remotely. The songs are elevated by violin, organ, double bass, banjo, and percussion - but at the center, of course, is the enigmatic Snock, whose songs have become even more unique and immediately identifiable 57 years after his very first album First Songs (Folkways Records, 1964). Heartbreaking, sincere, quiet, and carefree. It can only be him. The glorious "Are You Here For The Festival" that opens the album - punctuated by violins - came to him while he was gardening. "Li'l Blue River" floats on a cloud. The haunting sounds of "Jacob's Ladder" seem teleported from another era. Or another dimension. The Time of the Foxgloves is comforting and wonderful, as any Michael Hurley album should be.