Michael Hurley, the singer-songwriter who emerged from the ’60s Greenwich Village scene to become a legend of outsider folk music, has died. His family issued a statement confirming the death to Rolling Stone: “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley. The ‘Godfather of freak folk’ was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit. He alone was Snock. There is no other. Friends, family, and the music community deeply mourn his loss.” Hurley was 83.
