Michael Weston King
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Michael Weston King (born 1961 in Derby) is an English singer-songwriter. From 1994 to 2001 he was with alternative country band The Good Sons and works as a solo musician since then.
King grew up in Southport near Liverpool. After a short attempt to study in Manchester he went back to his home tow to found the band Fragile Friends. After a few little successful recordings they dissolved. King had been interested in New Wave-bands and later in the music of Elvis Costello. Then he became more and more interested in US-american bands such as R.E.M. and Dwight Yoakam. He founded the band the Good Sons - named after an album by Nick Cave, that was commercially fairly successful. Since 1999 he has been active as a solo musician.
King worked among others with Jackie Leven, Townes Van Zandt and Chris Hillman.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] with The Good Sons
- Singing The Glory Down 1995
- The King's Highway 1996
- Wines, Lines And Valentines 1997
- Angels In The End 1998
- Happiness 2001
- Cosmic Fireworks - The Best of The Good Sons(1994-2001) 2004
[edit] Solo
- God Shaped Hole 1999
- Live...in Dinky Town 2002
- A Decent Man 2003
- Absent Friends 2004
- The Tender Place 2005
- Love's A Cover 2006
- A New Kind Of Loneliness 2006
