Red Distribution
2008
Heart Of Stone
About This Album
Heart of Stone adds to Chris Knight's already impressive collection of hardscrabble songs reflecting life in rural, small town America. In the dozen tunes here, the Kentucky native explores, with an unflinching honesty, the lives of troubled ordinary folks. There's the meth-maker in "Hell Ain't Half Full" who sees a world where there's no law, no love, and "God wasn't paying much attention at all", and the working man in "Another Dollar" who realizes that "I'll never make enough money to get me what I need." The title track spotlights a man who was abandoned by his dad and now worries that's he turning out like his father. Knight has a knack for populating his songs with small but telling details, like the winter coat in "Miles to Memphis," that a man thinks his estranged wife might need, or the guy in "Something to Keep Me Going" (another tale of lost love) who holds on to his ex-love's photograph while admitting "I don't know why I don't throw it away." Two of Knight's finest efforts here are "Danville" and "Crooked Road," a pair of rough-hewn story-songs that rival John Prine's best.
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