Chris Knight
The Jealous Kind
Dualtone – 01139
Release date – 7/2003
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On his second release on the Dualtone label Chris Knight continues to show the effort put into his songwriting with his evolving growth in his ability to express his thoughts with fluidity and clarity. He songs still have the griminess and sensibilities of John Prine and Steve Earle. He combines it with the choice of words that displays the craft of a songwriter such as Kris Kristofferson. The songs illuminate with clarity the lives of those who are not riding on the easy streets of the world. They are like that small burr that gets caught in a saddle blanket and gradually works it way into your thoughts. Both words and music convey the ideas and overall impressions he has. They are not songs of hopelessness, but just of that other side of life we try not to think about, because the people inhabiting his songs are not the pretty people featured on glossy magazine covers. Rather they are either in the tabloids at the checkout counter of the grocery store, or hidden in the interiors of the local newspapers, but they out the sound. This is a rich and full disc that brims with the life that runs rampant and
unchecked ‘out there in the world’. It is not pretty but it sure is a disc that has something to say, and it makes its statements loud and clear. This rendering of country/rock music is real and alive and positively bursting with life. are real living and breathing people. He and producers Dan Baird and Joe Hardy have used a core of musicians that has played with him and then augmented them with some fine players to fill out the sound. This is a rich and full disc that brims with the life that runs rampant and unchecked ‘out there in the world’. It is not pretty but it sure is a disc that has something to say, and it makes its statements loud and clear. This rendering of country/rock music is real and alive and positively bursting with life.