Canadian alt-folk artist Cat Clyde returns with “My Love,” a final single to preview her new album, Mud Blood Bone, which is out this Friday, March 13, via Concord Records. Under the Radar says, “‘My Love’ 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. Clyde lends the track a cavernous sense of scale, layering sweeping instrumentation on top of its loping acoustic chords and lyrical tributes to the beauty of the natural world. Meanwhile, Clyde’s vocals move and howl like a piercing wind, settling into a low simmer with the verses before launching to impassioned heights on the chorus. The resulting track finds the meaning and wonder in the smallest details of the world around us: The call of the night bird / I love every trill / There’s peace and contentment / When everything’s still / The wail of the coyote / The flight of the dove / It’s all creation / And that’s what I love.”
Of her rendition of the track, 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.”
