Smog Knock Knock

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Back in '99, Bill was staking out new territory. Issued in the wake of the game-changing Red Apple Falls LP, Knock Knock upped the ante of the game, pairing his naked portraiture w ith increasingly delicate nuances in song and arrangement. The people responded in kind, turning out in ever-increasing numbers to shops and venues alike. They weren't quite singing along with 'Cold-Blooded Old Times' yet -that's a happy post-millennial development- but there was a lot of excitement in the air back in those final old-century days. Excitement and Smog! Knock Knock was enough of a tour de force that staging a re-look these twenty years later was a cool no-brainer. With production values at an all-time (for then) high and a team of Chicago-based studio rats (as well as a carefully vetted-and-compensated singing children's choir) on the case, Knock Knock was the most colorful of Smog albums; a record that played like a real-life opera, a story told in song. The story of a boy named Smog. Today, songs like 'Held,' 'River Guard,' and 'Hit the Ground Running' are still called for at concerts. Meanwhile, the 20th anniversary half- speed remaster of the LP allows us to perceive the expansive spaces in tunes like 'Sweet Treat' and 'Left Only With Love.' Knock Knock just keeps on a-knockin'! Lets Move to the Country Held River Guard No Dancing Teenage Spaceship Cold Blooded Old Times Sweet Treat Hit the Ground Running I Could Drive Forever Left Only with Love Released: 9/20/19 Internal ID: JITRE Format Detail: LP Genre: Rock Format: Vinyl Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.** Show more