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Michael Weston King / My Darling Clementine
| Published: 24th June 2009 23:09 |
Last time King and his musical and domestic partner Lou Dalgleish were here, they dropped in a couple of tasters from their new joint project, My Darling Clementine, an album of self-penned classic country duets in the cheating and heartbreak tradition of George Jones and Tammy Wynette or Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner. The good news is that for this visit there'll be a lot more.
The show will be in two very different sets. The first half will be King's regular solo with Alan Cook on pedal steel and doubtless highlighting some of the material to be found on the new live album Crawling Through The USA, among them A Decent Man, new number The Dancing Around and a coal-dust throat cover of Townes Van Zandt's Marie.
Then, Michael and Lou joined by Cook, pianist Gladstone Wilson and a percussionist, the second half will be a one off Birmingham-only acoustic showcase for My Darling Clementine that will include pretty much the entire album alongside a couple of covers.
Last time, Dalgleish held the place spellbound with jealous woman number The Other Half (a track that could have come straight from the Patsy Cline songbook), so look forward to a repeat of that alongside such nuggets as the honky tonking Nothing Left to Say, pedal steel and fiddle keening Departure Lounge, twangy delight 100,000 Words (a song that more than warrants a Mavericks reunion), the fiery bluegrassed You've Found Your Man, Put Your Hair Back (another tremendous Dalgleish vocal showcase) and a bluesy organ backed soulful rework of King's She Is Still My Weakness that Penn and Oldham would have killed to have written.
As of yet the album still hasn't a label, distributor or release date, but that doesn't stop it already being one of the best country albums of this - or any other - year.
Mike Davies
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