CROW AND GAZELLE RELEASE NEW TRACK "BLACKBIRD"
AS ABOVE NOW SO BELOW LP OUT APRIL 26
NEW TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
TOUR DATES
3/16 - Sour Duck Market SX with Keystone Artists - Austin, TX
3/20 - The Iron Horse Pub - Wichita Falls, TX
4/7 - Mercury Lounge - Tulsa, OK*
4/12 - Third Coast Theater - Port Aransas, TX
4/18 - The Blue Door - Oklahoma City, OK [Album release show]
4/20 - Backroom Lounge - Riverton, IL
4/24 - Hey Nonny - Arlington Heights, IL
4/25 - Boxcars Pub - Clinton, WI
4/27 - Buck's - Venice, NE
5/4 - Old Quarter - Galveston, TX
6/15 - Tulsa Time Concert - Tulsa, OK
6/18 - Uvalde Opera House - Uvalde TX
8/30 - Dosey Doe - The Woodlands, TX
8/31 - 3TEN ACL - Austin TX^
* w/ Melissa Carper
^w/ Josh Weathers
Texas-based duo Crow and Gazelle, the musical partnership of Red Dirt pioneer, co-founder of the The Great Divide, and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee Mike McClure, and his partner in life and in music, artist Chrislyn Lawrence, have released “Blackbird,” the latest from their debut LP, As Above Now So Below, due out April 26th.
“Blackbird” first began as a poem written by Lawrence, which was later set to music at a piano, in one stream of magic, by McClure after he found the printed words laying on a table. “It chronicles the early days of our relationship, when we recognized we no longer had to be alone,” they explain. “Blackbird” follows the release of lead single and video, “Take It Away.”
STREAM // WATCH: “TAKE IT AWAY”
Crow and Gazelle is a hymnodic, moving collaboration borne out of the connection between two people healing, loving, and growing together. Their songs—built around their entangled close harmonies and sparse, reverent acoustic instrumentation—are wrought out of the love they have come to find for themselves and for each other. As Above Now So Below is an album centered on acceptance and growth in the face of pain… and on embracing the sacred nature within each and every one of us.
The album, rooted in the process of honoring foundational roots while deconstructing harmful programming, encourages openness that looks within, rather than without, for purpose and meaning. In its raw vulnerability, the record approaches letting go (of control, of dangerous and unhelpful dogmas, and fear of the unknown) as the path to redemption and liberation. It takes its name from a well known axiom in an ancient Greek Hermetic text: “As above, so below; as below, so above.” The message of that expression is simple—the distance between the divine and the human is shorter than we think. And, for Crow and Gazelle, it means that “if we transform our traumas, if we take responsibility for our own healing, we can reclaim our connection to the divine and to all of life, and that alchemy can bring heaven to earth and earth to heaven.”
Through its joyful, reflective, and sometimes-sorrowful 13 songs, As Above Now So Below walks alongside the listener… through the depths of darkness, but ever holding space to see that through it is the only way to the other side.
This harrowingly beautiful and raw debut outing is at its heart the narration of a divine love story—not only the one between two people, but between our hearts and our minds, our pasts and our futures, our knowns and our unknowns. It’s an offering to the shared possibility of love that vibrates through each and every one of us. As Above Now So Below is available for pre-save HERE. Crow and Gazelle have announced new tour dates, see below for a complete list of shows, and be sure to follow them at the links below for all the latest news and updates.
