I have really hemmed and hawed about writing an antry on this album. I mean, I’ve already written about Chris’ newest efforts, Enough Rope and The Trailer Tapes, and this album is four years old. See, sometimes I get kind of sidetracked about what this site is supposed to be about, and it took writing the first draft of what will become the new ‘about’ page to remind myself what I am trying to do here. This isn’t a site about the newest releases out there. It’s supposed to be a site about music I find appealing, regardless of release date, and The Jealous Kind is so much more than appealing.

In the vapid ‘Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy’ tarted-up world of country music, a songwriter of Chris Knight’s caliber is either a) flat out ignored or b) too deep for the pop with a fiddle Clear Channel country music fan. There are no parties for Chris’s characters, no Honky Tonk or Badonkadonk’s. Chris’ characters are doomed to lives of jail cells, calloused hands, black eyes, beaten wives and unpaid bills, all told by one of the consistently best songwriters I’ve heard since the Drive-By Truckers. Eschewing hooks for stories, Chis Knight writes the kinds of songs that cut right to the reasons why I love music in the first place and heads straight to the Essential Listening list.

Chris Knight - The Jealous Kind
Chris Knight - Carla Came Home
Chris Knight - Broken Plow

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