A supremely sad and toweringly majestic tribute from Michael Weston King.
SOMEHOW AND SOMEWHERE
As Michael Weston King sings this ineffably sad song, you can totally believe him. And with good reason, he living through the sort of experience few can imagine and none would wish for. Look elsewhere for fuller detail, but let’s leave it at his beloved granddaughter, Bebe, being one of the 3 victims of the Southport massacre and the horror begins to knit together.
That would sink many a less measured individual, and it clearly hasn’t been easy, how could it, but somehow and from somewhere deep inside, it has produced a rich vein of remembrance, in the form of this and the accompanying songs from the forthcoming album of the same name. This, the title track of that release, is the second single, to promoting and publicising said disc. We here at ATB are proud to offer this premiere of the video made to accompany it.
Before the tragedy, the plan had been for this year to see the latest chapter from My Darling Clementine, Weston King’s country duet partnership with his wife, Lou Dalgleish. Circumstance dictated otherwise, the weight of so much sadness and grief rendering that task impossible. Or, at least, on hold, with instead they each channeling their individual responses into separate projects; Dalgleish is to issue her own album later in the year.
INTENSELY PERSONAL
Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore, the song, is unmistakably funereal in tone, a solemn intonation of the singer’s reaction to events, evoking some of the finest, if gauntest, of gospel blues. I get drawn, inescapably, to the tenor of Mahalia Jackson’s Trouble Of The World, as sung by Sinead O’Connor, the sorrow etched equally palpably in the vocal. The sorrow is, however, more intensely personal than that song, and, as the lyric shifts to her from me, “nothing can hurt her anymore“, it is agonising.
The arrangement is all shimmering guitar and keys, the lyrics savagely descriptive of bereavement. It isn’t remotely cheerful, but is majestically glorious in the mood and imagery explored. Weston King’s voice has never sounded so real, so bereft and so caring.
“To be honest, it was almost impossible to write about anything else“, says Weston King, “I hope I am creatively exhausted on the subject“. Few would deny him that hope, but you won’t hear a finer tribute all year, maybe longer.
Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore is the title track from the new Michael Weston King album; Written, sung and produced by MWK, played by Clovis Phillips, mixed by Colin Elliot, mastered by Duncan Cowell.
The video was shot and edited by filmmaker John Humphreys in Berriew, Mid Wales (basically at Michael’s house and the area around it) . More on John at https://www.instagram.com/johnhumphreysfilms/
Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore by Michael Weston King on CRS / Continental Record Services is released April 4th 2026 on CD, vinyl and all streaming services.
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