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“Love and healing are at the center of the songs that Crow and Gazelle created.” - American Songwriter
“...a plea to not give up in the face of what seems like overwhelming odds. Take just one more breath, do just one more thing, and that’s the first step to healing…It’s beautiful, and poignant.” - Twangville
“...hallmarked by powerful two-part harmonies.” - Underground Music Collective
“The duo knows how to use spare instrumentation in a creative powerful manner without being bombastic… Mike’s deep voice is a sharp contrast to the angelic tones of Chrislyn. Therein lies the attraction that is the elixir of their repertoire.” - Americana Highways
Mike McClure got his start in the 90s playing in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he was a founding member of legendary Red Dirt band, The Great Divide. The band signed with Atlantic, and Garth Brooks recorded one of McClure’s songs. After a decade with The Great Divide, McClure went out on his own and released ten albums, many with famed producer and engineer Joe Hardy (Steve Earl, ZZ Top). He has produced albums for the
Turnpike Troubadours, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Kaitlin Butts, Jason Boland & the Stragglers, and many others.
If you look closely at the last several years of McClure’s
life, you will see there has been a life-altering awakening, marked by reckoning, renewal and growth - some by choice, some by fate - the result is felt in his latest solo project Looking Up. The highly acclaimed album released in September 2020, found McClure getting sober, wrestling with insecurity, and finding new love for both himself and others, as he discovers the best way to live is to live in truth and to be present, no matter what. McClure was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2022.
Forever an inspired artist and songwriter, Mike McClure released a new album with The Great Divide in 2022, and formed a duo with his wife, artist and trauma informed healer, Chrislyn Lawrence, under the name Crow and Gazelle. Their debut album "As Above Now So Below" came out April 26, 2024.
“This project is all about seizing the moment to become more alive and to honor what is evolving within us—to use our voices in harmony to impart healing and to offer love out into a
world which is so torn apart. That is why and how this all started.”
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.
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.
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Nashville, Tenn., United States
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