Chris Knight - Chris Knight
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Artist: Chris Knight Title: Chris Knight Label: Fontana Mca N'ville UPC: 008817000725 Price: $11.98 |
Chris Knight - Chris Knight Track Listing
1 - It Ain't Easy Being Me
2 - Framed
3 - Bring the Harvest Home
4 - Something Changed
5 - House and 90 Acres
6 - Summer of '75
7 - Run from Your Memory
8 - Love and a .45
9 - Hammer Going Down
10 - Band Is Playing Too Slow
11 - River's Own
12 - William
About Chris Knight - Chris Knight
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Media Type: CD
Artist: KNIGHT,CHRIS
Title: CHRIS KNIGHT
Street Release Date: 02/10/1998
Genre: COUNTRY
Chris Knight - Chris Knight Reviews
Average Rating: 4.5
Rating: 5
Best disc of 1998!!
It only took me 10 years to find it !!
This album is an example of why music companies stink and the artists deserve better than scrap metal.
I would have been into this when it came out with some music leadership.
I no longer buy big fish company cd's because of the greed and bad music they think they know what is going to be cool and one song doesn't cut it.
That's where an artist like Chris Knight whose album is full of nothing but great dang songs comes in and kills the competition but somehow without the big time advertising no one actually gets to hear the real music. Radio listeners hear music chosen by the big labels to dominate the airwaves and send out junk as great, then when the truck breaks down and Chris Knight gets out and shows them how music is really made everyone walks out. Where's the love for real musicians and no more slops.
Money is the maker of famous?
Only in the minds of producers
THIS ALBUM IS ME
THIS ALBUM IS YOU
Remember Hank Williams before stereo...
This is Hank in stereo and it rocks like it.
If you are thinking about getting this...then you already need it.
You have been brought here by destiny and a bank book big enough to pay the price. Get it now... I got them all... and they all are great.
Rating: 2
It must be confessed that I bought this CD by mistake. I thought it might have been by Christopher Knight, the former actor of Brady Bunch fame (or infamy): the cover picture on "Chris Knight" is blurry, and the two men resemble each other enough so that I was able to make the mistake. I may, then, be able to offer myself as someone who can make an assessment in which I have no particular stake: I bought the CD cheap (for the equivalent of about two bucks) and had intended only to listen to it but once only satisfy my curiosity if it had been Christopher, rather than Chris.
The best things about the CD are that (a) the musicianship is good, given the materials and that (b) there is nothing grievously offensive about it. I first listened to it while distracted by another task and found myself thinking it wasn't bad and certainly merited more attention.
More attention I duly gave it with a closer listen. I will not recommend the CD to anyone. Indeed, had I heard it in, say, a music shop, I wouldn't even be bothered to cross the room and ask the clerk what it was.
The main weakness here is the lyrics. While George Jones, say, or Cub Koda or L.G. Petrov can compel while singing poor lyrics, less distinctive singers such as Knight or, in his early years, Steve Earle, cannot. Earle's first five albums are still good listens because the songs are good: this effort from Knight is not a good listen because the songs are (lyrically) downright bad.
Technically, the lyrics are poorly thought out: they simply do not scan. Examples include "behind a wall" in "Love and a .45," stuck in only, it seems, to make a rhyme, and the jarring mixed metaphors in "Summer of '75." Taken as wholes, the songs are generally on a par with made-for-television (or, these days, straight-to-video) movies: they're all set pieces we've heard better in other places. How many times (cf. "The Hammer Going Down") will we hear the story of the farmer potentially losing his land with only a final, meaningless, uninteresting call to pride?
Overall, the CD reminds me of nothing so much as work from rock's Elliot Murphy: it sounds more or less OK, but no one's ever going to even cover any of the songs here, let alone remember them. Maybe Knight's gotten better, but don't bother with this one.
Rating: 5
If you want to hear some real music, listen to this guy. Nashville pop he ain't.
Rating: 5
My first thougtht was, this boy is c-o-u-n-t-r-y. Next thought, this boy is a poet. Next thought, this ain't no boy. Chris' delivery is laid back, the content of what he's doing is visceral and disturbing. For anyone who has lived in rural America, especially the south, this artist is for you. You will laugh and cry and remember things you thought you had buried deep inside. Chris Knight's writing has guts and ghost.
Rating: 5
This CD is an instant Classic. Chris Knight will join John Prine, Todd Snider, Robert Earle Keen, Steve Earle, and Pat Green in my inner circle. His music seems a little too focused on truck drivers and farmers but I loved it just the same. I can't say that his two follow-up CDs affected me in the same way, but this one is one for the ages. "The Hammer Going Down" is my favorite song and I can't wait to hear it live and in person ... encore?
"First time I saw them playing a headline show and it was great!the people went crazy!sometimes too crazy though!..."