Knight's talents have always been apparent, but these stripped-down versions manage to shine a new light on some formidable songs.In interviews and press releases, Chris Knight comes across as fairly ambivalent about 2007's The Trailer Tapes and surprised at its reception. Recorded in the lead-up to 1998's Chris Knight, The Trailer Tapes finds Knight holed up in his hot single-wide trailer, sur...
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It's Labor Day and I just finished watching Billy Bob Thorton's contemporary Southern Gothic film Slingblade, so I believe I'm in the perfect frame of mind to review a Chris Knight album. Knight storytelling style reflects John Prine (who he studied when learning the craft of songwriting) and Steve Earle (who he's most often inaccurately compared [...]
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Suffice it to say that Chris Knight knows what Nashville has forgotten, that country music is the original narrative of the common man. It grew out of the Great Depression and forged a transcendent bond with its’ fans. Country music turned the struggles of rural America into poetry that helped ease the pain of fans [...]
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Suffice it to say that Chris Knight knows what Nashville has forgotten, that country music is the original narrative of the common man. It grew out of the Great Depression and forged a transcendent bond with its' fans. Country music turned the struggles of rural America into poetry that helped ease the pain of fans for decades. Knight hasn't forgotten the ability of music to sing to the soul...
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I have said many times here before that I have a severe man-crush on the one and only Chris Knight. His music has impacted me in ways that few other artists have. After listening to his latest release, Heart of Stone. I continue to be amazed at how album after album excels in all areas. [...]
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Suffice it to say that Chris Knight knows what Nashville has forgotten, that country music is the original narrative of the common man. It grew out of the Great Depression and forged a transcendent bond with its’ fans. Country music turned the struggles of rural America into poetry that helped ease the pain of fans [...]
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Having found himself artistically on 2001's Pretty Good Guy singer-songwriter Chris Knight shook off the major label production of his 1998 self-titled debut and wallowed in his dark visions of rural life. His follow-ups, including a startling album of pre-debut auditions, The Trailer Tapes, have stuck to a similar format of rootsy guitar-based productions backing unblinking chronicles of blue ...
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From the opening bars of the groovy "Homesick Gyspy" to the fiddle laced fade-out at the end of "Go On Home," Heart of Stone is a record that's strength is its aesthetic-a groovy, fuzzy, Stones-ish roots rock that works flawlessly with Knight's bourbon soaked, slurring growl of a vocal. Knight's hooks and melodies compare [...]
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Here is another great singer songwriter in the Townes tradition. Chris hails from Slaughters Ky. but spend a lot of time in Nashville these days. Two of my most memorable nights of live music have involved Chris. One was a solo showcase put on by his then label MCA Nashville in St. Pete Beach, the other was an all out rockin' assault at the now defunct Ace of Clubs in Nashville with the great D...
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| 1 Move On |
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| 2 Here Comes the Rain |
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| 3 House and 90 Acres |
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| 4 It Ain't Easy Being Me |
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| 5 Enough Rope |
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