The Trailer Tapes (CD)

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In the summer of 1996 inside a sweltering singlewide trailer outside a small Kentucky mining town, an unknown singer-songwriter named Chris Knight recorded an ‘unofficial’ batch of tracks prior to the release of his major label debut album. Over the next decade, through a combination of leaks, bootlegs and legend, those sessions would become something much more. “People have been talking about these tapes ever since I recorded them,” Chris Knight says. “To me, they were rough and stark and I never thought they’d see the light of day.” Ten years and four acclaimed albums later, The Trailer Tapes remain a remarkable moment in time less captured than cornered, a portrait of the artist as a ferociously talented young man. And for the artist The New York Times would soon call “the last of a dying breed…a hard-nosed iconoclast with an acoustic guitar and a college degree”, The Trailer Tapes have now arrived as the longmissing first chapter of one of the most uncompromising careers in music today. Track List: 1. Backwater Blues2. Something Changed3. Rita's Only Fault4. Spike Drivin' Blues5. Move On6. Hard Edges7. Here Comes The Rain8. Leaving Souvenirs9. House And 90 Acres10. If I Were You11. My Only Prayer Show more