Michael Weston King
FRAGILE FRIENDS
Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Four Play (cassette only) | Own |
Singles
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Paper Doll | KC(KC001) |
| 1985 | The Novelty Wears Off | KC(KCT1) |
Gary Hall and The Stormkeepers
Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Wide Open To The World | Run River (RRA0015) |
Singles
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Jesus Christ / Lighten Up Your Load Suzanne | Run River |
| 1992 | Where The River Meets The Sea (EP) | Ammi / Freestyle (CDAMMI102) |
The Good Sons
Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Singing The Glory Down | Glitterhouse (GRCD 379) |
| 1996 | The King’s Highway | Glitterhouse (GRCD 402) |
| 1997 | Wines, Lines & Valentines | Glitterhouse (GRCD 427) |
| 1998 | Angels In The End (U.S. Release) | Watermelon/Sire (WM CD 10 68) |
| 2001 | Happiness | Floating World (FW009) |
| 2004 | Cosmic Fireworks - The Best of The Good Sons | Phantasmagoria Records (Melinda 803) |
Singles
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | The Good Sons (EP - cassette only) | Own |
Michael Weston King
Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | God Shaped Hole | Glitterhouse (GRCD 463) |
| 2002 | Live...In Dinky Town | Twah! Records (Twah!121) |
| 2002 | Live...In Dinky Town | Floating World (FW 010) |
| 2003 | A Decent Man | Floating World (FW 016) |
| 2004 | Absent Friends | MurderedWithKindness (MWK001) |
| 2005 | The Tender Place | Phantasmagoria Records (Melinda 811) |
| 2006 | Love’s A Cover | Glitterhouse (GRCD 657) |
| 2006 | A New Kind of Loneliness (US version) | Poptown Records (703071001623) |
| 2007 | A New Kind of Loneliness (European version) | Floating World (FW 031) |
| 2008 | Crawling Through The USA | Valve Records (Valve 8087) |
| 2010 | I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier | Valve Records (Valve 2787) |
| 2010 | Forgetmenots | MurderedWithKindess (MWK002) |
| 2022 | The Struggle | Cherry Red Records (CDBRED854) |
Singles
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Celestial City | Floating World (FW024) |
DVD
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | OBS 8 - A' la carte - Various artists, features Michael Weston King & The Decent Men live at OBS festival Beverungen, Germany June 2004, performing High Days, Holy Days | Glitterhouse |
| 2007 | The Crowning Story (“From A Good Son to A Decent Man’) Michael Weston King -1995 - 2005......a career retrospective | Borderdreams / Dock |
| 2010 | Live in Hamburg - Michael Weston King sings the songs of Townes Van Zandt | Bootleg |
My Darling Clementine
Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | How Do You Plead? | Drumfire Records |
| 2012 | How Do You Plead? (N. American release) | Five Head Entertainment |
| 2013 | How Do You Plead? (12" Vinyl only) | Plane Groovy |
| 2013 | The Reconciliation? | Continental Song City/CRS |
| 2013 | The Reconciliation? (N. American release) | Five Head Entertainment |
| 2013 | The Reconciliation? (12" Vinyl only) | Plane Groovy |
| 2014 | The Lucky Bag (10" Vinyl only - Record Store Day Release) | Plane Groovy |
| 2014 | The EP Collection (N. American release - blue vinyl) | Lanark Records |
| 2015 | The Other Half (CD) | Little,Brown / Hachette |
| 2016 | The Riverbend EP (10" Vinyl Only - Record Store Day) | Plane Groovy |
| 2017 | Still Testifying (CD, download) | Continental Song City/CRS |
| 2017 | Still Testifying (12’ Vinyl) | Plane Groovy |
| 2019 | Country Darkness Vol. 1 (CD / Download) | Fretsore Records |
| 2019 | Country Darkness Vol. 1 (12" Vinyl) | Fretsore Records |
| 2019 | Country Darkness Vol. 1 (12” Vinyl / Streaming / Download) | Fretsore Records |
| 2020 | Country Darkness Vol. 2 (12” Vinyl / Streaming / Download) | Fretsore Records |
| 2020 | Country Darkness Vol. 3 (12” Vinyl / Streaming / Download) | Fretsore Records |
| 2020 | Country Darkness - The Songs of Elvis Costello, the album (cd, cassette, streaming, download) | Fretsore Records |
| 2024 | Country Darkness - The Songs of Elvis Costello (CD) | Hayabusa Landings, Japan |
Singles
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 100,000 Words | Drumfire Records |
| 2012 | I Bought Some Roses | Drumfire Records |
| 2014 | No Heart In This Heartache | Continental Song City/CRS |
| 2014 | King Of The Carnival / No Matter What Tammy Said | Continental Song City/CRS |
| 2014 | Miracle Mabel / Our Race Is Run | Continental Song City/CRS |
| 2015 | As Precious As The Flame | Little,Brown / Hachette |
| 2017 | The Embers & The Flame | Continental Song City/CRS |
| 2019 | Heart Shaped Bruise | Fretsore Records |
| 2019 | Stranger In The House | Fretsore Records |
| 2020 | Different Finger | Fretsore Records |
| 2020 | Crooked Line | Fretsore Records |
DVD
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Matinee Idle - collection of promo videos and live, in-concert footage | Heartache Pictures |
Other Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Out of the Blue Vol 1 | Glitterhouse |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation features Gods Other Son (The Good Sons) | ||
| 1996 | Out of the Blue Vol 2 | Glitterhouse |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation features Riding The Range (The Good Sons with Townes Van Zandt) | ||
| 1996 | Out of the Blue Vol 3 | Glitterhouse |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation features Higher Ground (Michael Weston King & Phil Abram - acoustic version - previously unreleased.) | ||
| 1997 | Out of the Blue Vol 4 | Glitterhouse |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation features Straight To You (The Good Sons) | ||
| 1997 | HMV’s Alternative Country | (RTMCD 997) |
| ** Features Angels In The End (The Good Sons) | ||
| 1998 | Out of the Blue Vol 5 | Glitterhouse |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation features Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down (Michael Weston King & Phil Abram recored live at The Paradiso, Amsterdam) | ||
| 1998 | Have One | Glitterhouse (GRCD 425) |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation. Features Mathilda (The Good Sons) | ||
| 1998 | Down On The Farm | (DOTFPROMO 3) |
| ** Features Fade Away (The Good Sons) | ||
| 2000 | Out of the Blue Vol 7 | Glitterhouse |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation features Lay Me Down (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2000 | Come Fly With Us | Glitterhouse (GRCD 466) |
| ** Glitterhouse compilation (GRCD 466) features Lay Me Down (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2000 | Seka Sister Vol 2 | Twah! 155/EFA 61115-2 |
| ** Features Sad, Sad Truth (The Good Sons) - previously unreleased. | ||
| 2002 | Chooglin’ - A Tribute To The Songs Of John Fogerty | Drenrecords (DNCD018) |
| ** The Good Sons perform Someday Never Comes | ||
| 2003 | Floating World Records sampler | |
| ** Features Celestial City (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2003 | Seka Sister Vol 3 | (Twah!) |
| ** Features I Fall Behind (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2004 | Floating World Records sampler | |
| ** Features I Fall Behind (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2004 | Nevermind - Glitterhouse is 20 | (GRCD 617) |
| ** 20th anniversary celebration album Glitterhouse compilation features Riding The Range (The Good Sons with Townes Van Zandt) | ||
| 2005 | Hardcover University - Phantasmagoria Compilation Vol 1 | Phantasmagoria / Melinda |
| ** Features Happy Infidels (The Good Sons) and Simple Twist of Fate (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2005 | Dylan Covered | |
| ** Mojo Magazine Bob Dylan tribute cover mount cd features Simple Twist of Fate (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2005 | Songs From Hell’s Ditch Vol 2 | |
| ** Features Lay Me Down - resurrection version (Michael Weston King & The Decent Men) | ||
| 2005 | Friends of Americana UK Vol 2 No. 11 | |
| ** Features Celestial City (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2006 | Revolver Reloaded | |
| ** Mojo Magazine Beatles tribute cover mount cd features For No One (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2006 | The ARC Classics - COUNTRY | (AMC CM 0906) |
| ** ARC Music Group sampler, (promotional use only) features God’s Other Son (The Good Sons). Also features One Bar Town’s version of Help Me Find. | ||
| 2006 | Northernline - The British at NXNE | Invisible Hands Music |
| ** Features The Last Hurrah (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2006 | Mr Music Country Vol. 8 | (MMCD325) |
| ** Features My Heart Stopped Today (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2007 | UN-HERD Vol. 3 | |
| ** Rock n Reel cover mount cd features It Will End In Tears (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2007 | Old Wines New Skins | (Dusk Fire Records) |
| ** MWK contributes his version of the trad. folk song What Is The Life Of A Man to the CD which accompanies the book | ||
| 2008 | Moseley Folk Festival 2008 - Anthology | |
| ** Features My Heart Stopped Today (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2009 | Sacred Songs For Worrying Times | (Righteous Records - Psalm 23:9) |
| ** Features I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2010 | Unusual Suspsects - Valve Records compilation | (Valve 2187) |
| ** Features live performance of No More Songs | ||
| 2010 | One Stop Shopping - Rich Olga Publ. compilation | (R0l-10-1) |
| ** Features Here’s The Plan and It Will End In Tears (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2010 | Riding The Range - The Songs of Townes Van Zandt | (Righteous Records - Psalm 23:47) |
| A Townes Van Zandt tribute album on Righteous/Cherry Red. The only release to date to contain Townes' version of Michael’s song Riding The Range on cd. Also includes MWK performing Townes song Marie. A percentage of all sales goes to support the QE2 Activity Centre which caters for people of all ages with learning and physical disabilities. http://www.qe2activitycentre.co.uk/ |
||
| 2010 | UN-HERD Vol. 16 - Issue 24 | |
| ** Rock n Reel (R2) cover mount cd features It Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2012 | We ‘re All In It Together | Red Planet |
| ** V.A. Fund -raiser cd for The Morning Star. Features We’re All In This Together (Michael Weston King with Al Cook) | ||
| 2012 | Deep Down Blues 2 | (NLM 205) |
| ** Released in Italy Features High Price Blues (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2012 | UN-HERD Vol. 30 | |
| ** R2 magazine Features Reserved For Me and You (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2012 | Yellow Submarine Resurfaces | |
| ** Mojo magazine cover mount CD. Features It’s All Too Much (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2012 | Now Hear This | |
| ** Word magazine cover mount CD Features 100,000 Words (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2013 | Live From The Barn, 2012, Maverick Festival | |
| ** Compilation CD. Features Going back To Memphis (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2013 | The Golden Demon - New Songs About Chaos & Transition | (Hemifran Records) |
| ** Compilation, features I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier’ - Ghostwriter re-mix. (Michael Weston King with Ghostwriter) | ||
| 2013 | Song of love, heartbreak and revenge - “Classic Rock presents COUNTRY” | |
| ** Magazine cover mount cd features No Heart In This Heartache (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2014 | Weltenklang - The First 20 Years | |
| ** Austrian booking agency boxed set compilation features Mathilda (The Good Sons) | ||
| 2015 | Bear Family Records 40th Anniversary | |
| ** Compilation album features Yours Is The Cross That I Still Bear (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2016 | Blonde on Blonde Revisited | |
| Mojo Magazine mount CD & vinyl. Features Pledging my Time (My Darling Clementine). | ||
| 2017 | Won’t Be Home For Christmas | (Hemifran Records) |
| Compilation album features Miracle Mabel (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2018 | SINGING THROUGH THE WALL - Songs For Western Sahara | (Club 44 Records) |
| Compilation album features In Time (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2018 | Music Minds | (Fretstore Records) |
| Compilation album features This Man Can Break (Michael Weston King) and Gold (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2018 | Do You Remember? - The James Lyons Project | (Bad Press Recordings) |
| Compilation album features Poem 1916 (Gigantic Days) (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2019 | UN-HERD Vol. 78 | |
| Features I Felt The Chill Before The Winter Came (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2019 | Won’t Be Home For Christmas - re-issue | (Hemifran Records) |
| Compilation album features Miracle Mabel (My Darling Clementine) | ||
| 2021 | The Wanderer - a tribute to Jackie Leven | (Cooking Vinyl COOKCD803) |
| Compilation album features The Final Reel (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2021 | Singing Through The Wall - Songs For Western Sahara Vol 2 | (Club 44 Records) |
| Compilation album features I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2023 | You be Elton, I’ll Be Bernie - Paul Cookson & Friends | |
| Compilation album features Just Like Mary Magdalene (Michael Weston King) | ||
| 2024 | Clarion Mixture - Compiled by Ghostwriter | (Wick Hollow Records) |
| 4 track 10 inch vinyl only EP of various artists features I Can’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore (Michael Weston King) | ||
Guest Appearances
| Year | Album | Artists | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Creatures Of Light and Darkness | Jackie Leven | Cooking Vinyl (COOKCD 213 ) |
| ** MWK contributes backing vocals on The Sexual Loneliness Of Jesus Christ and Wrapped up in Blue | |||
| 2002 | Whatever It Takes | Rich Mason | Disques de Rien (Rien 0080) |
| ** MWK contributes lyrics and lead vocals on Swing | |||
| 2004 | A Tribute To Frankie Miller | Various Artists | Eagle Records (ETGBX227) |
| ** MWK contributes guitar and backing vocals on I Would Gladly Go Blind | |||
| 2005 | Elegy for Johnny Cash | Jackie Leven | Cooking Vinyl (COOKCD331) |
| ** MWK contributes guitar and backing vocals on I Would Gladly Go Blind | |||
| 2005 | Live at Union Chapel, London | Townes van Zandt | Tomato (TOM-3019) |
| ** MWK writes the liner notes | |||
| 2007 | Homesick For Nowhere | Hobotalk | Glitterhouse (GRCD 660) |
| ** MWK contibutes backing vocals on Me Myself | |||
| 2009 | Balance | Chris Laubis | Poptown 703071002026 |
| ** MWK contibutes backing vocals on Feelin’ Alright and Lady Madonna | |||
| 2019 | I’m a song, I’m a story, I’m a ghost | Paul Sanchez | Paul Sanchez Music |
| ** MWK contributes backing vocals on Bayou Road | |||
| 2024 | Tremulant | Ghostwriter | Subexotic |
| ** MWK contributes vocals and guitar | |||
Publications
Books
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Beautiful Lies....The Songs of Michael Weston King (Songbook) | Twah! Publishing |
| 2006 | Cookin - Fund Raising For Special Needs Information Point - SNIP (Cookbook) | |
| 2007 | The Folk Handbook | Backbeat Books |
| 2011 | I’ll Be Here In The Morning - the songwriting legacy of Townes Van Zandt |
Writer
Contributor of articles, features and reviews for The Independent, Country Music International, Maverick, Get Rhythm.
Liner notes written for Townes Van Zandt Live at Union Chapel, London 1994 (Tomato Records)
Other Artists
| Year | Notes |
|---|---|
| 1997 | Riding The Range appears on Rear View Mirror performed by Townes Van Zandt with The Good Sons (Normal203) |
| 1997 | Watch My Dreamboats Sail appears on From These Hills by Carolyn Hester (RGFCD 033) |
| 1997 | Riding the Range appears on the 7” vinyl single EP entitled Riding the Range by Townes Van Zandt (Exile Records-Ex 7013) |
| 2007 | Songs for the Next Generation: ARC Music Group, promotional use only. A collection of 17 cover versions of songs written by MWK. Features: Tim Hardin 65′ – Christine Olhman and Andy York |
| 2007 | Lost appears on Songdust 3 by Rich Mason (Disques de Rien, Rien0096) |
| 2009 | Fade Away appears on Bag Of Tricks by Markus Rill (self released) |
| 2010 | Beautiful Lies appear on Making Tracks – Curios & Collectables 2001-2009, by John Howard (kid1015) |
| 2011 | Songs from a new generation – The songs of Michael Weston King A collection of MWK songs as recorded by other artists. This cd was put together for the industry only and is not available to buy… although there may well be some copies out there, somewhere. |
| 2012 | WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER – Various Artists Compiled and curated by MWK as a fund raiser for The Morning Star newspaper. All the songs have a similar theme, the state of the nation under the then coalition Tory/Lib-Dem Government. And just a relevant now, if not more so Copies still available from http://shop.morningstaronline.co.uk/node/129 |
| 2017 | Tim Hardin ’65, re-titled Dream With Me (Tim Hardin ’65) appears on Lonely Tonight by Chris Laubis |
| 2019 | Bayou Road (co-written with Paul Sanchez, Tiff Lamson and Josh McClorey) appears on I’m a song, I’m a story, I’m a ghost by Paul Sanchez |