Michael Weston King
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Michael Weston King (born on Novemberâ¯11, 1961, in Derbyshire) is an English singerâsongwriter whose career spans country, blues and alternative country. After leaving school at 18, he joined Liverpoolâs postâpunk scene with Fragile Friends before forming The Good Sons in 1992. The band released Singing the Glory Down (1995) on Glitterhouse, followed by The Kings Highway (1996) and Wines, Lines and Valentines (1997), and toured with Joe Ely and Blue Rodeo. After the group disbanded in 1999, Michael Weston King released the solo albums God Shaped Hole (1999), A Decent Man (2003), and the protestâfocused I Didnât Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier (2010). In 2011, he launched the duo My Darling Clementine, whose debut How Do You Plead? earned the British Country Music Associationâs Americana Band of the Year award and a BBC Radioâ¯2 hit with "100,000 Words." That year, he released the solo LP Forgetmenots. Throughout the 2020s, he continued to perform with My Darling Clementine, releasing the album Country Darkness - The Songs of Elvis Costello (2020) and resumed his solo career in 2022 with the full-length The Struggle.
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- This Man Can Break So Easily
- My Heart Stopped Today
- Someday Never Comes by Good Song
- Weight Of The World
- Reserved for Me and You
- Sounds Of Our Time
- Easy
- Annie
- I Can't Reach Him
- Lovers Lullaby
- Fade Away
- I Bought Some Roses
- In Spain The Dogs Are Too Tired To Bite You
- Beautiful Lies
- Rake
- A Song For
- God Shaped Hole
- An Englishman's Obsession with America
- Gigantic Days
- Mathilda
- High Days Holy Days
- Lay Me Down/Waiting Round to Die
- I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore
- I Pity The Poor Immigrant
