The single is taken from Songs of Flesh & Blood – In The Key of Light, the latest offering from TJ Cowgill AKA KING DUDE. Its eleven tracks of spiritual revelations and uplifting gloom continue where previous album Fear left off. KING DUDE has captured his own brand of whisky-soaked, dark Americana folk, distilling it in audio form.
“Death Won’t Take Me” was directed by David Fitt and assistant Maria Yakhnenko.
As the latest chapter in an ever unraveling songbook, Songs of Flesh & Blood – In The Key of Light offers Cowgill’s most personal and intimate songs to date. The autobiographical nature of his lyrics weave tales of love, loss, and death, drawing the listener into his intense reality.
Seeming to never sit still, KING DUDE has notched up an impressive back catalogue of songs including bewitching collaborations with Chelsea Wolfe and Solanaceae, whilst relentlessly touring on both sides of the Atlantic. His spring European tour saw KING DUDE criss-crossing the continent and attendees witnessed him delivering a hugely acclaimed performance at Roadburn Festival.
Songs of Flesh & Blood – In The Key of Light
1. Black Butterfly
2. Deal With The Devil
3. Death Won’t Take Me
4. Rosemary
5. A Little Bit of Baby Gonna Make Me Wanna Live Again
6. The Heavy Curtain
7. Desolate Hour
8. I Don’t Wanna Dream Anymore
9. Holy Water
10. You Know My Lord
11. Silver Crucifix
Songs of Flesh & Blood – In The Key of Light is available immediately digitally via BandCamp, but will be released officially in all formats across Europe via Ván Records on August 28.
As reverent as it is prophetic and stark, Burning Daylight pulls together the biblical sound and isolation of the northwest. King Dude draws from artists akin to Death in June & Leonard Cohen but sews together a hybrid of true folk tradition alongside the likes of Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash. Last year’s release of King Dude’s debut full-length masterpiece, Love, saw a beautiful vision of what was in store for the future…and what future is now. Burning Daylight is the newest edition to the King Dude canon. Coal dust spirituals mined from the haunting backwoods landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Stories of the constant struggle of man’s turbulent affair with his Lord and the Devil. Burning Daylight produces a maturity and direction that is unparalleled…showing us the word, and way and the light.
