Michael Hurley has always been on the move.
“Even in the womb,” says the beloved Bucks County-born songwriter. “I was conceived in New York City. And before I was born, I had already been to Florida and back.”
Days before his 80th birthday in December, Hurley was speaking from his home outside Astoria, Oregon, celebrating The Time of the Foxgloves, his lovely, free-spirited new album released on the Philadelphia label No Quarter Records.
The Time of the Foxgloves takes its name from the bell-shaped purple flowers that were blooming last summer when its 11 songs — nine Hurley originals and covers of the Louvin Brothers’ “Alabama” and Rob Keller’s “Boulevard” — were recorded with a crew of musicians who, like his fan base, are generations younger than him.
Hurley painted the album’s colorful cover, showing two women sitting on the side of a car pouring wine on a…
