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 col
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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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Before he became the equivalent of a hillbilly Che Guevara Steve Earle was the king of roots-rock. Since moving to New York City and shunning his redneck past the roots-rock division seems open for the next singer/songwriter able to blend introspective populist narratives with an fueled by an amped-up rock sound. Slaughters, KY's Chris Knight's [...]More >
I am a relatively new convert in the ways of singer/songwriter Chris Knight. I was turned on to his music only a few years ago by Eric Banister (our editor) and Ray Randall (our podcast guru). It took me a few spins to get accustomed to Knight’s vocals and presentation of songs but [...]Related posts:One Hoarse Town: Chris KnightSomething to Keep Me Going - A Conversation with Chris KnightCh
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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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