Just bought the new album - Ida Con Snock - in which Hurley teams up with a bunch of younger alt. folkies to produce some of the most sublime music I've heard in a long while. The latest version of Hog of the Forsaken could well be the best ever...

Michael Hurley - the sort of multi-faceted idiosyncratic traditionally weird genius who makes life worthwhile. Check out his site:

http://www.snockonews.net/

In the ultra-conservative muso-dominated demographically split UK folk scene there's only Jim Eldon who is anyway comparable. Shame really, but genius is a singular beast, is it not?