Essay
“An absolutely pure statement”: Michael Hurley’s final album reviewed
August 2025

In The Wire 499, Byron Coley reviews the final studio album by the late US troubadour Michael Hurley
In The Wire 499, Byron Coley reviews the final studio album by the late US troubadour Michael Hurley
Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them