The Knitters - The Modern Sounds of the Knitters (2005)
mp3 VBR~192kpbs | 52MB | 39:36 min. Roots Rock, Alternative Country-Rock
Biography:
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The Knitters was a one-off country side project of the famed Los Angeles punk band X featuring the group's vocalist Exene Cervenka, singer/bassist John Doe, and drummer D.J. Bonebrake as well as the Blasters' guitarist Dave Alvin. The Knitters' lone LP, 1985's Poor Little Critter on the Road, was a collection of originals, covers, and acoustic revampings of earlier X material, redone in a variety of country-based styles running from swing to traditional.
Twenty years later, in 2005, the group released their second and ironically-titled album, The Modern Sounds of the Knitters. John Doe has been quoted as saying "The Knitters, like their music, don't do anything hasty. Since our last record's been out for a while and it did pretty good, we figured it was just about time to put out another."
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It's been 19 years since the Knitters -- a country-tinged offshoot of X with guitarist Dave Alvin and bassist Johnny Ray Bartel in tow -- released Poor Little Critter on the Road. In the meantime, alternative country -- an unfamiliar phrase in 1986 -- has become a recognized genre. The title of the new album, The Modern Sounds of the Knitters, is something of a joke then: first, because there's nothing modern about the Knitters; and second, because alternative country is now a modern sound. The new album lacks the surprise of the first, the sheer oddity of a rock band making a country album. Most listeners, then, are going to listen to The Modern Sounds of the Knitters in the context of Wilco or Lucinda Williams or dozens of other performers covered in No Depression. In that context, two things stand out about the Knitters. First, the band has two solid lead singers, John Doe and Exene, whose voices work great together, and secondly, the guitar work by Alvin is always bright and rocking (even though the album is country-tinged). Still, it would be a shame if The Modern Sounds of the Knitters was just filed under country, alternative or otherwise. The band is simply too hip, and its country-rockabilly-folk sound -- modern or otherwise -- is too fresh to be lumped in with yet another No Depression band on the make. Authenticity is a beautiful thing, but unless a group can bring something new to old songs -- as the Knitters do to "Long Chain On" or "Give Me Flowers While I'm Living" -- then why bother? Of course, listening to Doe and Exene's voices intertwine will have listeners breaking out their old X albums. Certain slower songs, like "Little Margaret," are a bit milquetoast, but the Knitters more than make up for it by closing with a killer version of "Born to Be Wild." Perhaps it just takes a group of players less encased in the modern sounds of alternative country to make a lively, buoyant album like The Modern Sounds of the Knitters. -- AMG
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# Easy goin' sunday
# Give me my flowers
# Try anymore
# In this house
# Dry river
# Skin deep town
# Rank stranger
# The new call of the wreckin' ball
# Long chain on
# I'll go down swingin'
# Burnin' house of love
# Little Margaret
# Born to be wild
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