His voice has the kind of husky edge that's perfect for country rock. When Chris Knight sings of drinking, cheating and murder, it's with the right tinge of threat. But his third and latest CD, "The Jealous Kind," adds more wit and wisdom to the mix. In "Banging Away," some knuckleheads bumble through life with wacky determination. In "Walking on the Border," two people find love with each...
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09/24/2003
Chris Knight
The Jealous Kind (Dualtone)
The ragged characters in Chris Knight’s songs know all about hard luck. Liquor store robberies, dashed dreams, murdered brother-in-laws -- this definitely isn’t the feel-good hit of the year. But conflict is what creates a good story, and these stories are positively gripping. For those who flipped for Knight’s 1996 debut, pick this one up...
09/23/2003
Chris Knight, The Jealous Kind (* * *) The Jealous Kind is a roots-rock road
album with more than its share of curves. Knight's characters all see a road
they think promises escape from their troubled, desperate lives. For the
farmer's son in Me and This Road, it's a never-ending ribbon of blacktop
that surely connects somewhere to the county road that stops just past...
09/23/2003
Chris Knight isn't exactly the American noble savage, but like fellow Kentuckians such as photographer Shelby Lee Adams and author Chris Offut, he offers movingly detailed portraits of life as it's really lived in Appalachia. His tiny, aptly named hometown of Slaughters (where Knight still lives, despite Nashville record and publishing deals) provides both cogent tales and a vivid context for...
09/18/2003
Chris Knight is not a bad singer-songwriter. In fact, The Jealous Kind will probably give him the boost he obviously deserves, landing him on the record shelves of those who love Steve Earle, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Ryan Adams and other ne'er-do-well laconica. But he's also a better songwriter than what the bulk of The Jealous Kind lets him be. His best work comes when he borrows not from the...
09/18/2003
Chris Knight's a regular guy. The people in his songs aren't.
Chris Knight extracts songs from the same ravaged west Kentucky earth he once rehabilitated
The tomatoes were good this year. They came up out of that fine Kentucky soil that blankets the coal mines and connects the hardscrabble towns, bringing Chris Knight back home to the rolling hills of his heart.
"It'...
08/13/2003
Chris Knight, who has become Tne of the most prolific songwriters of our time will release his third album, The Jealous Kind on September 23rd on...
02/12/2002
The hubbub greeting Chris Knight’s 1998 debut revolved around the album’s gritty, pulp-country point of view, a tone set by scenes rife with guns, tough luck and beat-up pickups- and by the weight of the world etched into Knight’s ash-can rasp.
The Kentucky native’s new album, the wryly titled A Pretty Good Guy, continues his penchant for dramatic, back-holler noir, once again filling...
12/02/2001
Chris Knight still fives in a trailer on 40 acres of woods In his hometown Slaughters, Ky. And like every decent Southern gothic novel, Knight's fife and songs are full of cock-eyed characters who love, drink go to church, procreate, kill, and die with a goodnatured recklessness people in other parts of the country caret seem to muster.
Knight came out swinging three years ago with a...
10/20/2001
“I just think we might have a little bit of attitude in our songs, as opposed to having a wimpy or silly attitude,” singer/songwriter Chris Knight says. “A lot of us don’t want to look goofy onstage.”
Knight, who issued his first album on Decca in 1998 and his recent follow-up, A Pretty Good Guy, on Dualtone, say he made the record he wanted to create both times despite spending far...
