Long-awaited reissue of legendary songwriter Michael Hurley’s quietly incredible second album from 1971. A lovely, easygoing record, crafted with a care and attention to detail that perhaps becomes more apparent with repeated listens. In my case, while I found this album to be an appealing one from the first play, it continued to grow on me until it slowly went into heavy rotation, where it still resides. “Sweedeedee” in particular is a favorite.

(Note that the original Raccoon issue had a comic book that is not reproduced here, but this reissue offers a new back cover painting by Hurley and color labels.)

“Originally released in 1997 in Germany in a press size of 500.  These original copies were seized by the government shortly after the records release. Only 150 or so were sold before the seizing, but since copies have leaked out of whatever dank German bureaucratic basement they were relegated to. Still, a very hard record to find for years, now back in print.  Our current reissue was remastered from the original tapes & has superior sound quality to the original.

“Culled from Michael’s unreleased output between his ‘First songs’ LP from 1964 & ‘Armchair Boogie’ in 1972.  All tracks feature just Michael & guitar.  Absolutely beautiful folk music by the singular Snock - in our opinion, one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time.” – Mississippi