Clementine Was Right

Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of poets Mike Young and Gion Davis. 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.

The band is based in Denver and features an orchard of collaborators from the Sierra Nevadas to the Ozarks, complicating and queering the lineage of "country music" with yokel fuzz.

In 2024, the band released their most ambitious ambitious album yet: Tell Yourself You're Going Home. Recorded over two years in Memphis, Denver, New Mexico, and beyond, these 9 songs (and 1 poem) feature 30 different collaborators. These new songs are about friends burning down and olive trees leaving town. They sound like asking to help them find 's lost cabin on the Pacific coast. Paste Magazine called it a Top 40 Rock Record of 2024.

Thanks to national DIY touring and a collaborative online presence, Clementine Was Right is building a secret quilt of listeners, all over, heartbroken mutts, singing along under their breath, taking an old story about the fire of forgiveness and feeding it your new story, driving a Volvo to the doughnut store, garbage bag curtains, packing the rain in the smell of your coat, distances you never learn to trust.