Chris Knight "North Dakota"
This is the kind of guy who you would probably ask to open the top of that pickle jar that you can't twist off. Oh, he'd open it just fine. But then you might get "that look" as he sets it back down on the counter. You would never be able to claim that you helped him open it. That would be bad.
Chris Knight has a way of convincing you that it might be...
"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,...
