Chris Knight / Chris Berardo at The Vogel, Red Bank, NJ

Name: Chris Knight / Chris Berardo at The Vogel, Red Bank, NJ
Start: 2024-12-06T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Vogel

Schedule

Fri Dec 06 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Vogel | Red Bank, NJ

Chris Knight Band
with special guest Chris Berardo
Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 8:00 PM • $39.50–$69.50 • all ages
The Vogel • Basie Center Campus
99 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
(732) 842-9000
www.thebasie.org/venue/the-vogel
After 23 years as a recording artist, singer-songwriter Chris Knight remains boldly empowered to make music that always delivers the unflinching truth. In fact, the man raised in Slaughters, Kentucky uses a simple, direct barometer to regularly check his muse: “If I can’t believe myself, I won’t sing the song.”
That brutally honest, no-frills philosophy fits his Americana-fueled, backwoods-grown merger of folk, country, and rock. It’s been at the backbone of nine studio albums, beginning with 1998’s acclaimed self-titled debut and traveling through scorchers 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.
Because 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 survivors, and tumultuous small-town existence find a captivated audience. A few edgy, raw gems that immediately come to mind are “It Ain’t Easy Being Me,” “Carla Came Home,” “I’m William Callahan,” and “Everybody’s Lonely Now,” the latter two from Almost Daylight.