It’s a couple of years since we last featured B. Knox on Tracks, and we’re glad to report that he has a new album coming out on 8th April 2022 called ‘Far From Folk’ from which this knock-out song comes from. It’s a song that quietly creeps up on you and then taps you on the musical shoulder and says, “yes, I’m all about death and legacy and maybe just a bit about the living that happens before that.”
Back in 2019 we noted that B. Knox was something of an internet age cipher – we didn’t even know what the B stood for. It’s Billy, who was one of B. Knox’s grandfathers and Knox was one of his grandmothers’ maiden name. B. Knox is an ex-schoolteacher, he grew up in Newfoundland and he says “I grew up in an area that was entirely Irish Catholic, before the age of ten, I didn’t know that anything other than Irish traditional music existed. That Celtic spirit is fairly rebellious, and they have these long ballads with sad narratives and undertones.” And you can maybe hear some of that in his own music. Check out the song, and come April next year you’d do well to check out the album too.
Sophomore album from Canadian songsmith marks him out as a serious contender. B. Knox as he chooses to be known, is a former Canadian schoolteacher who's loss to the education world is quite clearly Americana music's gain if this, his sophomore album is anything to go by. His debut album,…
It's nice to report that even in the age of the Internet and an all pervasive sharing of data - for good or ill - it's still possible to be out in public and also be pretty much anonymous. Which is the long way round to saying that other than…
B. Knox’s debut album pulls on most of the threads of Americana. Pedal steel guitar and a stately pace mark out opener ‘Deep Dark Love’, and a Neil Young guitar line shapes ‘Corners’. Barroom piano punctuates several of the songs contrasting with the guitars. The bluesy ‘Living With a Shadow’…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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