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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/chris-knight-acoustic-show-with-
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SUMMARY:Chris Knight Acoustic Show with special guest Jacob Paul Allen
DESCRIPTION:After 23 years as a recording artist\, singer-songwriter Chris 
 Knight remains boldly empowered to make music that always delivers the unf
 linching truth. In fact\, the man raised in Slaughters\, Kentucky uses a s
 imple\, direct barometer to regularly check his muse: “If I can’t beli
 eve myself\, I won’t sing the song.”\nThat brutally honest\, no-frills
  philosophy fits his Americana-fueled\, backwoods-grown merger of folk\, c
 ountry\, and rock. It’s been at the backbone of nine studio albums\, beg
 inning with 1998’s acclaimed self-titled debut and traveling through sco
 rchers such as the one-two punch of 2001’s A Pretty Good Guy and 2003’
 s The Jealous Kind\, two demo-styled discs (2007’s The Trailer Tapes and
  2009’s Trailer II)\, and the recent\, electric guitar-fortified opus\, 
 2019’s Almost Daylight.\nBecause Knight’s music has always sat outside
  of the mainstream\, onstage is where he makes his fans one show at a time
 . It is exactly where his searing tales of rural characters\, fringe survi
 vors\, and tumultuous small-town existence find a captivated audience. A f
 ew edgy\, raw gems that immediately come to mind are “It Ain’t Easy Be
 ing Me\,” “Carla Came Home\,” “I’m William Callahan\,” and “
 Everybody’s Lonely Now\,” the latter two from Almost Daylight.\n“I
 ’ve written songs about a lot of different things going all the way back
  to my first record\,” he says\, “and some folks still think ‘somebo
 dy kills somebody’ is all I write about.”\nWhat Knight writes about is
  what he knows. He was raised in mining country\, so it’s no surprise th
 at he would earn a degree in agriculture from Western Kentucky University 
 and then work as a mine reclamation inspector and then miner’s consultan
 t. But eventually his passion for writing songs and playing guitar\, both 
 inspired by his musical hero\, the late John Prine\, led him to chronicle 
 his surroundings in words and music.\n“I came from a big family and grew
  up in the woods six miles from two small towns\, so there were a lot of s
 tories\,” he says. “There were always a lot of ideas to write about.
 ”\nThose ideas have earned Knight praise from publications such as The N
 ew York Times (“the last of a dying breed…a taciturn loner with an aco
 ustic guitar and a college degree”) and USA Today (“a storyteller in t
 he best traditions of Mellencamp and Springsteen”)\, to name a few. Like
  his beloved Prine\, whom Knight duets with on Prine’s chestnut “Mexic
 an Home\,” the cut that closes Almost Daylight\, Knight fits comfortably
  in Texas honky-tonks\, downtown Nashville venues\, and cool Manhattan roc
 k clubs.\nIt’s no wonder that Knight has single-handedly scraped a reput
 ation as one of America’s most uncompromising and respected singer-songw
 riters through 23 years and nine studio albums. He’s done this minus fan
 fare and artifice. The native son of Slaughters\, Kentucky (population: 23
 8) only sings songs he believes. He also speaks only when he has a potent 
 message.\n“If I don’t have something worth saying\, I’m not opening 
 my mouth. I haven’t suited everybody\, but every time I get a new fan it
  tells me I’m doing something right. I think all my records have set a p
 recedent\, if only for me at the very least. I just want people to think t
 he latest one stands up to everything else I’ve done.”\nSee less\n
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LOCATION:Colony Woodstock NY\, 22 Rock City Rd\, Woodstock\, New York\, Uni
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