Chris Knight has sympathy for those who've had doors slammed in their faces. He is a songwriter comfortable with hard-hitting musical narratives, detailing folks on the receiving end of disappointment. With two solid albums behind him, Knight continues to move forward with his latest heartfelt collection, "A Jealous Kind."
The album benefits from the assistance of producer and former...
Over the past half decade the swarm of superlatives whirling about the accolades for each new Chris Knight effort grew to epic proportion. Uptempo country rockers from "It Ain't Easy Bein' Me" through "Love and a .45" drew justifiable comparisons to "Guitartown" icon Steve Earle and fellow legend...
If you know the music, you know the man. Americana singer-songwriter Chris Knight's stories about Southern folks on the fringes of society, his tales of desperate, downtrodden characters with a penchant for trouble come from the pages of his past. They aren't all true, the Kentucky native admits he makes them "more...
Occasionally I hear a disk that grabs me so hard during the first ten seconds that it makes me stop whatever I’m doing and just plunk my scrawny butt down to listen. Chris Knight’s The Jealous Kind did exactly that. Knight has a voice that wears an aura of suffering and grit like a merit badge. Couple his bone-chilling vocal delivery with songs that reel you in with hooks and bridges worthy...
Chris Knight - Pick of the Week (***)
Knight deals with subjects modern country music long ago wanted to leave behind. The former coal mine inspector from Slaughters, Ky., writes unflinching tales about laborers, murderers, drifters, farmers, no-account boozers - and decent folk who sweat hard every day and have little to show for it. When introduced in 1997, Knight entered to the...
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Singer/songwriter Chris Knight doesn’t construct flowery, lightweight or disposable tunes. His characters and situations reflect his small town background, his preference for simplicity in public dealings and honesty in relationships, and the disappointment...
October 12th, 2003
Chris Knight
The Jealous Kind
(Dualtone ***)
On "Me and This Road," Chris Knight contemplates life beyond his stifling small town, and the old country road that can't carry him far enough away. There are a lot of roads on the Kentuckian's third album, byways that lead to trouble, opportunity, and maybe a shot at redemption.
In a thematic sense...
After Johnny Cash died, I parted the dozens of CDs beside my desk like The
Red Sea to find something appropriate to review next. I stopped at Haggard
Like Never Before, the latest release by Merle Haggard. Like a pair of country
music redwoods, The Okie From Muskogee duets with Willie Nelson on “Reno Blues
(Philadelphia Lawyer.)” This swell infidelity yarn is by...
Possessed of the best western Kentucky twang since bluegrass master Bill Monroe’s, Knight can break your heart with his singing. But the songwriting here is even stronger. On his third CD he tells stories of characters so down on their luck they’ll never get back to even. At times more rock than country, Knight’s music sets a melancholy tone that perfectly matches the outlaw desperation of...
There’s fat country music, which celebrates the callused pleasures of hard work, and there’s lean country music, which is the sound of having no work at all. Kentucky singer-songwriter Chris Knight’s third LP is lean but sturdy: There’s vitality and brawn behind his weather-beaten voice. Knight’s songs are peopled with folks who drive hundreds of miles for uncertain love, who rob liquor...
