Chris Knight tells stories about the down and out, the desperate, the unlucky and folks generally off societies grid and influenced by his childhood growing up in the tiny mining town of Slaughters, KY – and here in the tiny downstairs Tap Room at the Knitting Factory a near capacity crowd came to bear witness to their lives in song.
Dismissed by critics as the poor-man’s (so to speak) Steve Earle, Knight has his own stories and they tend to be [...]
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Today’s feature is old school at it’s finest. Jake Penrod comes to us by way of Brownsboro, Texas and has a sound that he describes as “Hank Williams’ and Kitty Wells’ love child.” Sounds about right to me. Like something you’d hear out of your Grandpas old Zeneth or down at the honky-tonk off the interstate. Check ‘em out.
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