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"It took me a while to accept people's reaction to the first Trailer Tapes," says Chris Knight. "At first I didn't see the appeal, but that's probably because I was way too close to it. While everybody seemed to respond to the rawness of those performances, I heard every little thing that I'd wished I'd done differently. But now I've grown to like it as something that's worth something. I...
The Best Americana Music of 2008
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008
2008 was the year that saw No Depression magazine fold up its tent, an unexpected casualty of a larger magazine purge. Ultimately, the magazine would reemerge with a web presence and a reduced print schedule, but its demise seemingly lent credence to claims that the Americana movement was pretty much dead....
Based out of his tiny, rustic hometown of Slaughters, Ky., songwriter and guitarist Chris Knight writes backwoods poetry with introspection he's clearly gained by living the words he writes. His songs touch on opportunities lost and opportunities that never were, rural drug manufacturing, drinking for distraction, and the weighty questions that haunt those who never make it out of the woods,...
The solid roots rock, the ache, anger and empathy and tales of broken lives and hearts, make Knight's sixth album sound like Steve Earle and The Georgia Satellites doing an epilogue to Copperhead Road. Nothing wrong with than when it produces songs as good as "Another Dollar" and brilliant, bare-bones ballad (just voice and guitar) "Crooked Road" --- SS
