The last single from Cat Clyde’s upcoming new album Mud Blood Bone is a cover of a 1960 Marty Robbins track, melding the swaying country western croon of Robbins’ original with Clyde’s swirl of blues, folk, and rockabilly. It’s a song that digs deep into the overwhelming connectivity of love, that can only be captured by sweeping past the big gestures of mountains and valleys and diving deep into the minutia of every speck that makes up creation, because love is in all those components, in every shadow, in every breeze. Speaking of her rendition of the track, Canadian alt-folk singer Clyde offers, “I heard the original Marty Robbins version of this song in 2023. Hearing it felt like a great clue in my search for meaning in love. It reminded me of the love that surrounds me in the natural world, and how it all lives within me as well. That love is accessible to me in every tree I touch, in every bird song I hear, in all the places I go, in the earth below me, the sky above me – it’s all a mirror to the love that lives within me, the love from my ancestors, from my past lives, my gods and my guides and beyond.”
Mud Blood Bone will be released on Friday 13th, this month. Or tomorrow as we sometimes refer to it. CAt Clyde will undertake a short European tour in April and May, with a number of UK dates included – these dates. in fact:
30 Apr – London – UK
01 May – Manchester – UK
02 May – Glasgow – UK
