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The Knitters - Poor Little Critter on the Road Audio CD

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The Knitters Band: The Knitters
Title: Poor Little Critter on the Road
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Release Date: 1996-07-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Poor Little Critter on the Road 2: Someone Like You 3: Walkin' Cane 4: Silver Wings 5: Poor Old Heartsick Me 6: New World 7: Cryin' But My Tears Are Far Away 8: Love Shack 9: Call of the Wreckin' Ball 10: Trail of Time 11: Baby Out of Jail 12: Rock Island Line

Woven Knitten threads

Knitters was the off-the-shoulder one-off take of their tribute to '50's folk and big fun. X, an LA band, so-called punk historic and important in the late '70's, early '80s scene , but! they loved American Music louder and faster and the melody achin' like a hard scramble boot scoot. Xcept, John Doe found his voice as a neo-tradition, Exene, her voice as sweet as evocative as cruely determined as Loretta Lynn.
This CD has the fun of living life as a kid listenin' to radio, dancin' with straw between the toes, and gad only knows
what next!.


The Knitters Rock
From X to the Knitters - they're still rockin! This album is great and the addition of Dave Alvin kicks it up a notch!.


Poor Little Critter Rocks
I've owned it as a cassette, LP and now CD and it always sound good. All I can say is that I never get tired of these songs. Poor Little Critter In The Road is one of the funniest songs ever and Rock Island Line used to be on a 'tunes tape' I had in the car for my kids. We always had fun with it. No collection is complete without the this gem.


Now THAT'S what I call Country!!!
That's mainly because I find so much country music nowadays unimaginative, redundant and just plain boring. Very few people believe that I am a fan of country music because I'm rarely ever found listening to it. One paradigm I have long held onto is that great country music (just like great blues music) sounds like something you could imagine playing yourself on a back porch.

There are probably music purists who could pigeonhole my tastes into one aspect of country music (bluegrass or hillbilly, say), but I contend that my tastes are simply for Country Music.

With all of that said, it seems a shame to say that one of my all-time favorite country albums comes from a conglomeration of members from bands often categorized and punk and rockabilly. X and The Blasters are also bands I am quite fond of, so when I found out that members of both joined together to do some old country-blues tunes and even revise a little X, I was all over that record like white on rice.

This is fun music. Too much country nowadays just isn't fun, or if it pretends to be fun, it does so with a sour pretention of acting like everyone should act this way, but The Knitters nailed an album here that has such a come-along, sing-along feel, that I feel shame that the CMAs haven't nailed a copy of this album to the procemium of every awards show as a reminder of where the REAL heart of country music lay.

This is a great collection of songs. Songs about heartache or jail sung in a way that sounds genuine, not pretend. Like true country music, or the blues, songs of despair sit next to songs of love and joy. These are the emotions of life, told through charming and direct performances. Some of my favorites here are the title track (roadkill as a metaphor for life), Walkin' Cane, and if you aren't slapping your knee during Call of the Wreckin' Ball, you just don't have a pulse.

An added note: whenever I play The Kniters' version of "Rock Island Line," my 8 year-old can't help but just dance around the kitchen table. That's my hillbilly boy!
.


At last! An X album I DON'T like!
I played it backwards and not only did I sober up, but my wife came back to me, my dog came back to life, my truck got fixed, the bank took the lien off my house and I bowled a perfect game!

Signed,
epsteinsmutha . Here I thought they were infallible and they go do this one-off "ner ner" music that inspires intimate thoughts regarding blood relations and livestock.


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