| | Chris Knight Enough Rope CD Chris Knight Discography of CDs
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On Chris Knight's fourth album, ENOUGH ROPE, the country-rock singer-songwriter offers up another winning round of tunes about various down-and-out characters. A kindred spirit of lauded storytellers such as Steve Earle, Tom T. Hall, and Bruce Springsteen, the Kentucky-raised Knight excels at rustic narratives, as revealed on the gritty "Jack Blue" and the melancholy "Cry Lonely." Given Knight's husky voice and pedal-steel-tinged songs, ENOUGH ROPE should appeal to country fans that like their music a little rough around the edges.
Personnel: Chris Knight (acoustic guitar); Gary Nicholson, Pat Buchanan (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore (lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar); Kevin McKendree (keyboards); Michael Rhodes (electric bass); Sam Bacco (percussion); Tom Littlefield, Ashley Cleveland (background vocals); Kenny Greenberg (electric guitar); Greg Morrow (drums).
Recording information: Fearless Recording; Room And Board.
No Depression (p.114) - "ENOUGH ROPE is a barnstormer, evidence that Knight finally has that little corner of the rock 'n' roll carnival he's been hankering for since 'It Ain't Easy Being Me'." Chris Knight Enough Rope Songs Purchase Enough Rope CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Chris Knight CD (1998)
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With Chris Knight's debut album, released on MCA Nashville's sister label Decca, critics of the new country sound of the late '90s began to hold out hope that Nashville could return to the genuineness that it had been so lacking for years. That hope was rooted partly in Knight's singing, full of country-rock phrasing clearly modeled after Knight's hero, Steve Earle, but even more so in Knight's songwriting. His flair for describing the lower-middle class in Middle America, their difficulties making a living, and run-ins with the law, evokes Earle and even early Bruce Springsteen. For example, "Love and a .45," co-written with Fred Eaglesmith, describes how two lonely people on opposite sides of the law, a cop and a prostitute, find each other. One of Knight's most literate songs, "The River's Own," details the singer's father's (and ultimately, his own) union with the river that runs ...
| | Todd Snider Devil You Know CD (2006)
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Universal Music's New Door Records subsidiary has the unusual if not unprecedented assignment of giving artists second chances at major label contracts. It seeks out people who once recorded for labels now controlled by Universal and re-signs them. Singer/songwriter Todd Snider had a three-record tenure with Margaritaville Records, Jimmy Buffett's vanity imprint with MCA, which later merged with PolyGram to form Universal. Snider then went to John Prine's indie label, Oh Boy Records. Universal signaled its renewed interest in Snider ...
| | Guy Clark Workbench Songs CD (2006)
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| | Chris Knight Trailer Tapes CD (2007)
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A couple years before releasing his 1998 Decca debut, Chris Knight demoed some of his songs with that disc's eventual co-producer, Frank Liddell. These were the days before computer software made it easy for home recording, so Liddell wound up recording Knight in an old trailer on Knight's Kentucky farm. Ten years down the road, these tapes got cleaned up by ace engineer/producer Ray Kennedy, and the results are quite wonderful. Only three of these 11 tunes ("Something Changed," "House and 90 Acres," and "If I Were You") later appeared on official Knight releases, but there isn't a drop-off in quality with the previously unreleased songs. The Trailer Tapes reveals Knight already to be a mature, gifted songwriter. The territory that he has addressed throughout his career -- hard-living working ...
| | Billy Joe Shaver Everybody's Brother CD (2007)
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| | Chris Knight Heart Of Stone CD (2008)
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Heart of Stone adds to Chris Knight's already impressive collection of hardscrabble songs reflecting life in rural, small town America. In the dozen tunes here, the Kentucky native explores, with an unflinching honesty, the lives of troubled ordinary folks. There's the meth-maker in "Hell Ain't Half Full" who sees a world where there's no law, no love, and "God wasn't paying much attention at all", and the working man in "Another Dollar" who realizes that "I'll never make enough money to get me what I need." The title track spotlights a man who was abandoned by his dad and now worries that's he turning out like his father. Knight has a knack for populating his songs with small but telling details, like the winter coat in "Miles to Memphis," that a man thinks ...
| | Barney's Favorites, Vol. 1 CD (1993)
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| | Elvis Presley Country Side Of Elvis CDs (2001) Remastered
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$25.49
If you like your Elvis with a heavy dose of schmaltz, then this Australian-only release is right up your alley. It's 25 of Elvis' country-oriented recordings, with all of the early '50s sides for Sun and RCA deleted from the set. What's left are movie leftovers, album cuts, and B-sides from 1961 to near the end, all of them slickly produced, with most of them sporting a slick Nashville sound. Although the notes go into great detail about Elvis' country roots, this isn't the place to hear him as a hillbilly singer; go to his original Sun sides to hear the real Elvis, country boy at heart. ~ Cub Koda
This classy, 51-track reissue featuring Elvis' country-styled tunes through his entire career starts promisingly enough with the early Sun sides from 1954, including his version of Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky." But like the artist himself, it dissipates disappointingly as the years progress. Elvis' almost universal appeal was grounded in how effectively he mixed blues, gospel, and classic vocal pop along with his country & western influences to produce, well, rock & roll, along with his own unique hybrid of styles. Hence his country recordings even as early as 1956's "Old Shep" and 1958's version of Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart" are often marred by sappy backing singers and a commercial slickness that was a harbinger of his Vegas years. Additionally, much of these selections are only vaguely country-sounding, at least in Elvis' hands. "There's Always Me" from 1961 is a pop ballad that is about as far from Hank Williams as Hank Williams, Jr.'s rowdy redneck rock. Far better is Presley's version of Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On," which starts out with stark accompaniment but adds horns and backing singers as the tune progresses. The best songs here, like the powerful "Kentucky Rain," add drama and pomp to basic country themes of loss, loneliness, and heartache, all emotions that ran rampant in Elvis' own ...
| | Joe Pass Simplicity/A Sign Of The Times CD (2002)
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| | H I M Lila CD (2003)
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| | Botany Boyz Raw Raw Dub CD (2005)
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| | Johnny Tillotson All Time Greatest Hits CD (2006) (Import) United Kingdom
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$25.59
| | Johannes Hager Lovsangsljud CD (2008) (Import)
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$40.75
| | Scratch King Ultimate Hustler CD (2008)
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$14.79
What's good MySpace fans this yo\' boy $cratch King. I\'m from Flint, Michigan better known as Bedrock. I love doing music. Music lets me tell my stories and be creative in my own way. This industry is built upon stories and more stories, and I\'m here to tell my own. I know it's up to you to ...
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