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Chris Knight - Heart Of Stone


Rip Info
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Artist: Chris Knight
Album Title: Heart Of Stone
Record Label: Drifter's Church
Rip Date: 2008-09-03
Catalog Number:
Genre: Country
Year: 2008
Source: CD
Encoder: LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality: 181 kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo


Track List
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01 Homesick Gypsy 3:51
02 Hell Ain't Half Full 3:38
03 Something To Keep Me Going 3:02
04 Heart Of Stone 4:14
05 Danville 4:18
06 Another Dollar 3:57
07 Almost There 4:01
08 Crooked Road 4:31
09 Maria 4:33
10 Miles To Memphis 4:37
11 My Old Car 4:25
12 Go On Home 3:23
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Rip Notes
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"My worst nightmare is standing still," sings Chris Knight on the opening track
of his latest release, in a torn voice that leaves no doubt he means it. It's
the road?nforgiving, alluring, limitless yet limiting--that provides the
backdrop to his finest album in a decade of sturdy, uncompromising releases.

Longtime friend and cohort Dan Baird fills the producer's chair, and he brings
along fellow Yayhoos bassist Keith Christopher to help slather that old Georgia
Satellites mojo over these tough country-rockers. Baird has produced Knight
previously, but the results here show the two have bonded over a powerful set of
rugged, emotionally trenchant heartland rockers that make anything in the John
Mellencamp songbook sound anemic by comparison.

The tunes exude additional gravitas from the producer's backing
accompanimen--billed as "teenager sounding guitar solos"--which feels almost
garage-like in its rawness. Knight's voice is a craggy combination of John
Fogerty and Steve Earle as he sings songs that use "My Old Cars" and the
"Crooked Road" to express the trials of the bluest of blue-collar working-class
heroes.

The stories are simple yet potent: the ex-con coming home to make things right
for "Maria," the woman leaving an abusive relationship in "Danville," and the
yearning for money that won? likely appear as "Another Dollar" seems further
away.

It? Knight's connection to, and compassion for, these protagonists that make
his characters spring to life with such vivid clarity. That honesty is seldom
expressed in contemporary Americana with such conviction, which makes "Heart of
Stone" beat with such sincere passion and intensity.

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