This performance sponsored by LK James Illustration & Design
Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of poet and fiction writer Mike Young. Chronicling years of uprooting—from Northern California to New England, Alaska to New Mexico—the music gallops and sways through hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo.
After releasing three books of poems and stories in the early 2010s (with praise from VICE, BOMB, The Believer), Mike started Clementine Was Right in 2018 as a return to songwriting.
Mike is now based in Denver, building songs with the poet Gion Davis and collaborators from the Ozarks to the Sierra Nevadas, complicating and queering the lineage of "country music" with yokel fuzz.
