Chris Knight - The Trailer Tapes
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Artist: Chris Knight Title: The Trailer Tapes Label: Thirty Tigers UPC: 822976000224 Price: $14.98 |
Chris Knight - The Trailer Tapes Track Listing
1 - Backwater Blues
2 - Something Changed
3 - Rita's Only Fault
4 - Spike Drivin' Blues
5 - Move On
6 - Hard Edges
7 - Here Comes The Rain
8 - Leaving Souvenirs
9 - House and 90 Acres
10 - If I Were You
11 - My Only Prayer
About Chris Knight - The Trailer Tapes
In the summer of 1996, inside a sweltering singlewide trailer outside a small Kentucky mining town, an unknown sing/songwriter named Chris Knight recorded an 'unofficial' batch of tracks prior to the release of his major label debut album. Over the next decade, through a combination of leaks, bootlegs and legend, those sessions would become something much more. "People have been talking about these tapes ever since I recorded them," Chris Knight says. "To me, they were rough and stark and I never thought they'd see the light of day." Ten years and four acclaimed albums later, The Trailer Tapes remain a remarkable moment in time, less captured than cornered, a portrait of the artist as a ferociously talented young man. And for the artist The New York Times would soon call 'the last of a dying breed...a hard-nosed iconoclast with an acoustic guitar and a college degree," The Trailer Tapes have now arrived as the long-long missing first chapter of one of the most uncompromising careers in music today.
Chris Knight - The Trailer Tapes Reviews
Average Rating: 4.5
Rating: 3
Disappointing if you have the rest of his CDs, like me. It's not awful, but doesn't match up to his other output. Interesting to hear earlier versions of a couple tunes. Sound quality uneven as you would expect.
Rating: 5
This was the first CK album I listened to and I was hooked the first time. I can relate to a lot of his lyrics and it seems that he puts all of his emotions into the songs.
If you have never heard CK before or you aren't sure if you should get this album, just go for it. You definitely won't regret this one.
Rating: 4
The songs are low on production values but make up for it with great music and spectacular lyrics. I am a big Fred Eaglesmith and, frankly, I could've been fooled into believing this was a "lost now found" Fred cd.
Well worth owning.
Rating: 5
This album is almost as good as Chris' first self-titled CD. You all just don't know what you're missing.
Rating: 5
Chris Knight's "The Trailer Tapes" have been released on his Drifter's Church label. Recorded in 1996, this is a stark recording of man and guitar. The absence of a band lays the songs bare, beautiful for their simplicity & Knight's unadorned sincerity. "My Only Prayer" that concludes the set is a lovely diamond, "I'm a country boy; I'm out of place, turned city bum; A good day to me is getting by. I walk the city mile without ever seeing the sun; There's no need to reach the stars when you can't see the sky." The opener "Backwater Blues" is also a treasure with Knight's plaintive vocals, "Put up your bags & get away from the door; Put up that rusty pistol, baby, I ain't mad anymore; If you leave me now & head for higher ground, baby this river of blue black water's going to take me down." "Something Changed" appeared on Chris' breathtaking 1998 self-titled debut CD on Decca Records Chris Knight, "She believed in blue skies; I only brought her rain; It ain't so strange that something changed." Also from the same album, we hear this acoustic version of "House and 90 Acres" that laments the bank foreclosing on family farms, "I've got a house & 90 acres, some cattle in the barn, 2 kids with no mama, she left in a salesman's arms, a sign by the mailbox says there's an auction in the yard, Born & raised has been damned easy, but lately living's hard." The song shines in this acoustic version. "If I Were You" that appeared on Chris' CD A Pretty Good Guy also shines in this acoustic version, "If I were you, I wouldn't be out on these streets the whole night through; Yeah, I'd have a job & a pretty wife that I could come home to, but I don't. I have 20 cents left to my name & you're the only one left here that I have to blame." Other songs like "Spike Drivin' Blues" and "Move On" are gratefully seeing the light of day. These first recordings of Chris Knight are exquisitely beautiful. Bravo!
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