Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore
Michael Weston King didn’t plan to make a new solo record…
It is simply Michael’s instinctive musical reaction to the events of summer 2024
Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore
Format: CD – Digital
Label: Continental Song City
Release: 2026
Release date: April 4, 2026
Michael Weston King didn’t plan to make a new solo record…
The English singer-songwriter, who, with his wife, Lou Dalgleish, makes up the country-soul duo, My Darling Clementine, was working on their latest album in spring 2024.
But, in the summer of 2024, a personal tragedy changed everything. Michael and Lou lost their six-year-old granddaughter, Bebe, in the Southport attacks in July that year, and, as much as they tried to carry on and make a My Darling Clementine album, with the weight of so much sadness and grief bearing down on them, it just didn’t seem the right thing to do.
Recognizing that everyone’s grief is individual – even that of a husband and wife – Michael and Lou needed to channel their suffering via their own individual creativity and in their own way, rather than in collaboration, so they worked on two solo albums.
Partly recorded in rural Wales and partly in not so rural Sheffield, “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore” was produced by Michael, along with Colin Elliot (Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Self Esteem), who also mixed the album.
‘Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore’ cannot be described as ‘country’, or indeed ‘Americana’, it is simply Michael’s instinctive musical reaction to the events of summer 2024.
A large part of the album is influenced and affected by Michael’s unimaginable personal loss, but not every song on the record is about the tragedy.
“Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore” is an outstanding album of wonderfully-crafted, emotional and atmospheric songs – often dark and painfully honest, but not without moments of wry humour, stoicism and compassion.
Website: https://michaelwestonking.com/
Tracks:
01. The Golden Hour
02. Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore
03. Die of Shame
04. A Field of Our Own
05. Grow Old With Me
06. Just A Girl In The Summertime
07. La Bamba In The Rain
08. When I Grow Old
09. A Mother’s Pride
10. Into The West
11. Sally Sparkles
Talking about making music since the tragedy, Michael says: “To be honest, it was almost impossible to write about anything else. I hope I am now creatively exhausted on the subject, but I think it will affect my writing for ever, just as indeed, the loss of Bebe will.”