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chris knight almost daylight

10/18/2019

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Chris Knight (from the album Almost Daylight on Drifters Church Productions)
The first cut on Almost Daylight, the recent release from Chris Knight, sets the tone for the album, “I’m William Callahan” erupting into life as steadily winding wire tightened by sharp-sighted words and razor-string guitar bends form the song. Chris Knight tears a story from rough rhythms, backing his words with a feral sound, bastard chords and notes bred of a back-alley mingling of Country and Rock’n’Roll. Guitar notes sparkle and jangle on the slowly revolving groove of the title track as Almost Daylight looks through the dark clouds of small town life and hard luck living in “Wont’ Look Back”, demanding “The Damn Truth” as a angry response to the news of today and swaying on ragged Country Folk wisdom of “Everyone’s Lonely Now”.
 
The rural staging of the stories on Almost Daylight are in line with the ‘last of a dying breed’ nods that Chris Knight has garnered over his career. His characters stick to the shadows, survivors of hardscrabble lives, driven by desperation and running headlong into the tiny offering of the Almost Daylight album title. Of the title, Chris Knight feels that ‘I do think there’s a cohesiveness to this album. The title is key, I suppose. Through all these songs, you could find a theme about seeking shelter’. Producer Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle) brings a richness to the songs, the acoustics are raw and edgy, pounding out a melody wrapped up in the scorching guitar leads of Dan Baird (Georgia Satellites, The Yayhoos, Homemade Sin). The beat stomps, guiding a ragged musical backing through “Mexican Home”, with John Prine joining in while Lee Ann Womack joins Chris Knight on the Country cool of “Send It on Down”. The playing quiets as Chris Knight heads home to ‘the Kentucky line’, the rhythms raising up with the tense confessions of “Trouble Up Ahead” as he preaches outlaw inspiration with the words of “Go On”, pulling “Flesh and Blood” from the openhearted admissions of unconditional love.
 
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