Chris Knight Invades Louisville

Kentucky born and raised, Chris Knight makes straight-ahead country music dripping with heartache. He shuns the bright lights of Nashville and the glitz of Los Angeles, making music that is earthy, the moods often dark and biting. The most dramatic pugnacious songwriter thrown down by the Americana scene, Chris Knight’s 10-year song stockpile deftly maps an underbelly of poverty, violence, murder and death.

These are tales of small town losers and drifters, little-girl ballerinas who turn into strippers to make ends meet, women who murder their abusive husbands, lost good ol’ boys adrift in big-city canyons. There’s booze, violence and regret lurking around every corner. There are sad folks using other sad people to make themselves feel better, families losing their farms, and the loneliness and stillness that come with loss. But they still manage to party at the local juke joint, look back on better days, and keep an eye out for a glimmer of hope here and there.

Knight displays his keen ability to tell stories, creating imagery that makes it seem like he is living the song. From the opening growls in “Backwater Blues,” “Where the hells the sun, think its rained for days,” Knight shows his rough edges along the way. Knight sings of hard relationships in “Rita’s Only Fault” and standing one’s ground in a bar with “Move On” as Knight states “I’ve got a pistol, all you’ve gots a knife, so you better move on, if it ain’t worth your life.”

In “My Only Prayer,” Knight winds down and takes listeners back safely to our sweet Kentucky home… “Some day I’ll go back to Kentucky…”

3/13/2009

Pilgrim Productions w/ The Vernon Club presents Chris Knight w/ Arthur Godfrey

Cost: $12/15 ticketweb.com, ear X-tacy & door, 21+

Doors:  7:30pm / Show:  8:30pm

excerpts from reviews found at ChrisKnight.net