Trailer II

Chris Knight | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thirty Tigers
• ASIN: B002H3ETOG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,140 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Trailer II is far more than just a sequel to The Trailer Tapes. Where the majority of the first album were songs that had never appeared on any subsequent Knight disc, Trailer II features original versions of what would become many of Chris' most popular tracks. Like its predecessor, the 12 songs on Trailer II were recorded in the summer of 1996 inside Knight's sweltering singlewide in a field just outside of Slaughters, Kentucky (population 238, including Chris). Knight, then an unknown singer-songwriter still months away from recording his major label debut album, had begrudgingly agreed to record a batch of solo acoustic tracks on his own terms. For one week, Knight, Liddell and engineer Joe Hayden crowded around two vocal and guitar microphones to capture twenty-five of Knight's original songs on ADAT tape. Over the next 10 years, the stark and stunning recordings via a combination of bootlegs, leaks and legend, would become one of the most talked-about sessions of the decade.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REAL Friends - Chris Knight - Bare Acoustic Excellence, September 29, 2009

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Willie Boy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trailer II (Audio CD)

I didn't expect much more from the Trailer Tapes part 2, but after listening it is clearly just as good as Trailer Tapes part 1........ Every acoustic sound places you right there. Between Heart of Stone, Trailer Tapes 1+2 you have the bulk of acoustic excellence from this great artist... Most of his cd's are out of print anyway and these last three albums represent just how talented Chris Knight is... His music makes me feel like he's a close friend of mine and we all belong together partying making music. REAL friends are very few and far between and even those aren't guaranteed.... Chris Knight and his music are guaranteed to lift you up...

Very Rare artist in top form - even for these (demo) sessions inside the long trailer

I have had the boot-ed songs for years and the Trailer Tapes 2 make them sound better...
Not to mention there are more songs that weren't available on those illegal bootlegs...
New songs that make this part 2 even more worth the purchase..
I am glad I bought it right away - since rare artists like this usually only put out minimal copies..
You need to grab this one today.

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It would be very nice for Chris Knight to reissue some of the out of print albums..
I personally had a struggle gathering them all... but it was worth the search..
There isn't a bad Chris Knight album - Every one of them is GREAT!!!

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just a man and his guitar, December 27, 2009

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Chris (Georgia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Trailer II (MP3 Download)

Chris Knight is amazing. He writes most of his own songs and this album along with the first trailer tapes album lets you have a peek into that songwriter world. It's rough, gritty, and unrefined by someone in a studio. It's pretty much just a man and his guitar telling a story the way it was meant to be told.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars acoustic covers of his own songs, March 24, 2010

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A. Molica "Money Bagz" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trailer II (Audio CD)

Very good but unless your a big acoustic fan buy his other records first they have a lot of the same song them