Tear it Up - Keith Knight
“Confession time: Keith Knight is my little cousin, whom I remember from the time when his feet barely passed the edge of the back seat in a car. Cute li’l guy, the youngest of a family of one offshoot of the Robinson clan by his mother Dorothy.
Enough of that! Back in the 2010’s, Keith and I ran back into each other here in the Portland, OR, area, where I lived and he would pass through occasionally on various work projects. He came over to visit, and proceeded to blow me away with a virtuosity of American Folk/American Finger-Style Guitar (think Leo Kotkke or John Fahey) that I didn’t even know that he possessed. I’ve strummed around on the guitar for decades, but Keith had mastered it.
Cuz or not, I thought that his work needed a much broader audience. I had him come down to THE Show Newport Beach, while Richard Beers was still around, and spend time with Cookie Marenco of Blue Coast Records. He recorded three songs for her directly to DSD256, but that was it. It never went any further, unfortunately.
Back towards the end of 2024, Keith sent me a couple of his CDs from the first few years of the 2000’s. I was extremely impressed by them…they were surprisingly good. Both albums were recorded in 44.1kHZ/16-bit (or maybe 48kHz/20-bit…who knows?). I took on the challenge of ripping these good-sounding CDs to .WAV files via our Aurender A30. I then took the files through Tascam’s Hi-Res Editor to convert the .WAV files to DSD256 (Quad DSD) .DSF.
The result were quite gratifying…I think that you’ll think so, too!
So…listen on…and hear one of the real masters of American folk in action.
Leo Kotkke, make room!
Dr. David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief
Positive Feedback magazine
Artist(s): Keith Knight (All Guitars, Vocals.
Percussion)
Folks who helped me tear things up:
David DIGuiseppe (Accordion)
Tazz Halloween {Supporting Vocal)
Jack Herrick (Penny Whistle)
Robbie Link (Uptight BaH)
Rex McGee (Fiddle}
Geraldo Gustavo "Gus• Negro {Percussion)
Rob Van Veld (Bodhran, Triangle)
Guitars:
Kinscherff High Noon, National Ml
and Polychrome Tricone, Breedlove
MJ22E, Taylor LKSM· 12
Recording Info: Produced by Keith Knight and Jerry Brown
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jerry Brown
Microphones: Neumann U·47, U·49, KM54
Recorded at The Rubber Room, Chapel Hill, NC
All songs by Keith Knight (except Goodbye Ain't Gone, Chomp Man Blues, That'll Never Happen No More), © 2002 Bear Claw Music ® 2002 KnlghUBear Claw Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission.
*The audio files for this title were initially recorded at 44.1 kHz/16-bit. They have since been upsampled to DSD256, and the pricing has been adjusted accordingly.*
1 The Dublin Dudes 3:08
2 Calimaica 4:08
3 Goodbye Ain't Gone 4:39
4 Cat Fight 2;19
5 Chomp Man Blues 3:17
6 Trotsky's Revenge 2;33
7 Lightning Play 4:04
8 That'll Never Happen No More 2:51
9 Texas Tombstone 4:08
10 Had Enough 3:51
11 Dag Nab It! 3:19
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