Chris Knight - RLRM Podcast Ep. 27

real life real music radio with your host kyle hutton i'm doing great chris how are you this evening good well we're glad you're here thanks for making the trip down for kentucky to come hang out with us thanks for having me that's our pleasure i just i just thought of this i hadn't thought of it uh but you know you came from kentucky and this barn did too this old barn came from kentucky i don't know do you know where it came from in in retrospect to slaughters kentucky where's michael ford he put this thing back together he would know where they picked it up we'll try to find that out by the end of the night well thank you for the trip down i know you're starting to run uh here in texas and maybe over into oklahoma but we're glad to be your first stop tonight well i'm going to ask you a bunch of questions tonight but before we get started with me doing that i'll just ask you to pick one that you want to play for us to kick things off tonight while they're tuning i'll tell you in the local market 99.7 kvst on sunday nights at six o'clock is when they broadcast the show and i can't remember which one they're running this week i think maybe i think maybe billy joe shaver is our show that we're going to rerun this week we love billy joe shaver and you know he's one of many that we lost this year and uh so if you haven't heard that episode or weren't here for that show check it out because it's one of my favorite ones we've done okay all right well i got the 10125 run took the back road to the store about 35 degrees but it sure feels good not to be walking no more i got some milk bread and bologna some little dabbies and some man to do [Music] sometimes when i ain't got the groceries going to see what this thing will do little victory they all ride with me these days that's all i need i got off 250. four by four needing a new ring [Music] i saw some hides and a soul some would save enough to get it going again i can start hauling these timbers sell them down at the man here they're bringing a few bucks a piece things are looking better all the time little victory they all ride with me [Music] these days that's all i need [Music] heard the country's going through hard time but i ain't feeling it now we all trying to make it through one more day when it's all said and done i got a deer and a half in the freezer i've got wheels and plenty of wood i know i ain't setting the world on fire but i think i got it pretty good [Music] little victories all right with me these days that's all i need little victory [Music] they all ride with me these days that's all i need [Music] [Music] thank you man that that you know i know you that one was on little victories put that back out in in 2012 but that that sounds like it was written for right now i mean the hope and the optimism and the contentment in that song it makes me feel good on a day like today when there's just been all kinds of crazy stuff going on in the world do you do you remember do you remember where you were when you got the idea for that song or what like what what the initial thing was that set that song rolling in your head it was a 2007 presidential election [Applause] it was uh yeah i didn't get around to riding until the you know february or yeah whatever the we had ice storm and western kentucky was it was pretty bad it was pretty you know we were out of power for 23 days and a lot of people were out for uh you know a month or better and you know trees crossroads couldn't get out and all that yeah so but uh you know we were good with with plenty of wood you know i had a chainsaw so we were able to hike our way out of there after about a week you know if we had to you know but really we were in good shape so so you talk about the deer in the freezer on that one and even when we were ordering dinner tonight you know you your your diet consists mainly of uh stuff that you uh can bring in yourself if i'm getting well i mean me and my son i mean you know i i don't do as much hunting as he used to but my son is like he's uncontrollable you know he brings in he brings in a bunch of wild game and you know i'd say we're good shape you know we're in good shape as long as we can keep the electricity on for you know till we use it up keep it cold yeah yeah yeah that's amazing okay so chris i want to ask you i'm going to take you way back to the beginning and and uh i heard a red somewhere that you asked for your first guitar when you were three years old right a little plastic guitar what where did that come from what what music was being played around your house that made you even think about wanting to pick up a guitar like where did that come from that that desire to do that ah at that time i mean could have been you know seeing i i don't know if even johnny cash even had a show on tv but there were uh um you know a lot of music on the radio i was hearing stuff and uh you know i just i really don't know where that came from but i had an uncle he's actually uh ex-uncle okay and he uh he played guitar and i remember when i literally be down at my grandmother's house he played guitar on christmas and stuff you know and so i just like the looks of them and we didn't have any records or anything way back then but as we went along you know we get a little bitty record player and i don't know i just you know like yellow rose of texas was like i was one of the first songs that that i remember uh uh singing you know no wonder rick perry made you an honorary texan yeah yeah that's good yeah yeah and i you know that that was the first one and he's playing on a little uh little little suitcase style turntables yeah those kids five years old or whatever i wonder whose version it was it was uh earnest doug was it okay all right there you go well is there is there a there a song from from back in the early days maybe one of the first records or whatever that that brings back more memories of of home or or those inspirations from from when you were young that you still play in the set today um you know about all of my songs have been that way you know i mean uh real route here's pretty close to home gonna play that one for us yeah i'll play i gotta do a little i guess you cut that part out [Music] build fire the hill [Music] said in the woods and drank my field talked to god all night took another shot and set me right i walked down to the road fell a beer kick full of 22 holes and a say goodbye yeah say goodbye [Music] ain't no telephone at my mother's house and all the lights are out down on the railroad [Music] this place myself goes to memory i walk on by but to follow me on down the road just said no [Music] yes i better go i go back but i can't go home rivers up and the road is closed ain't no telephone at my mother's house and all the lights right [Music] down [Music] do built fire up on the hill [Music] said in the woods drank my field talked to god all night took another shot and said that right i found my mother's sing the grave verse i know of amazing girls [Music] and i go back but it can't go [Music] ain't no telephone at my mother's house and all the lights are red [Music] down [Music] do [Music] thank you so rural route was on the record uh on the record enough rope came out back in 2006. so i want to ask you about one of my favorite songs on that record and that's the that's the title track of it enough rope i wonder if you tell us about that one um i ran into a kid that i used to play little league baseball with down at uh seabury kentucky basically where i grew up i grew up in between two small towns and spent a lot of time in sieber and uh um i hadn't seen him since we played little league baseball he uh was working for the city you know and uh we had a real good conversation and i don't know on the way home i just uh hollered out i worked for the city in the town where i grew up you know it just kind of went from there you know and i wrote you know i rode on it for a few days and then austin finished it up by the way austin is a genuine texan yeah he is mr austin cunningham [Applause] you're the only one up here that's been proclaimed by the governor often they've been proclaimed i had i've been here my whole life and they hadn't got that on her so uh so that song enough rope is that one you can play for us i didn't see it on your list but as a fan i just wanted to ask that's kind of taking your life in your own hands with a guy that's got a bunch of songs about killing people i know got to be careful got to be careful about i figure we got a lot of witnesses in here tonight thanks buddy oh guitar don't wanna ain't acting right welcome to houston area humidity loves us it was in real good tune when i was sitting at the kitchen table [Music] well i work for a city in the town where i grew up someday is a run to back home some days the runs are done if i had another plan on my graduation day [Music] several years ago i guess i hauled a mile away yeah i hauled them all away well she told me she was pregnant on the day i turned 18. i did what you're supposed to do i bought her rings you didn't have to ask us but he asked us anyway we stood up said i'd do what else were we gonna say what else were we gonna say and i'm thankful for the things i have and all the things i don't i got dreams that will come true i got some that won't but most of the time i walk the line [Music] wherever it goes cause you can't hang yourself if you ain't got enough ropes [Music] my boss man is a man [Music] i do just what he asked i'm all the courthouse long i watch the prisoners walking past i'm lucky to be working instead of wearing chains like my cousin willie [Music] he locked up in the grain he locked up in the grain and i'm thankful for the things i have and all the things i don't i got dreams that will come true i got something [Music] most of the time i just walk the line wherever it goes cause you can't hang yourself if you ain't got enough room it's tearing down the highway i go to drink some beer i was down all i'm missing about hanging around here and i drive back to the trailer make up with my wife i kiss my sleeping children and i get on with my life i get on with my life thank you i know i'm hopping all over the place but uh i want to ask you about the uh the newest record put out you put it out in october of 19 almost daylight and the very first song on that record is obviously probably the first song any of us heard if we downloaded the record and that's i'm william callahan that's uh that's that's one of my favorites and that record's got a i mean it's got a bunch of great songs on it but that one uh that one hits me every time i hear it and you you've got a you've got a thread of williams running through a lot of your catalog tell us a little bit about william callahan i don't know i got a cousin that stole the school bus when he was uh about 16. got made out of him by the cops i don't know what radio station you're playing this home but we'll make it work i think that's a legal word on the radio station yeah i haven't gotten any any letters from the fcc yet so i think we're uh i think we're all right i've had to bleep out a few things but i think we're okay there but uh i don't know i mean i was he's about the only way you might know you know it seems like a good uh you know but sometimes william somebody else you know but yeah william callahan that was a song actually it started out wilson callahan and then i changed it to william you know i i'm i do that all the time i use uh women's names cut you know a lot of times because they sound good i mean i couldn't i didn't i didn't want to write a song called robert callahan or something you know so ain't nothing wrong with i got an uncle name that was named robert so but you know mary pops up all the time who's mary who's who's uh who's maria who's this and i just sounds good in a song you know i couldn't think of another name well well i think probably to us as fans they're like amazing characters in the mysterious world of chris knight i think is what they are yeah and becky absolutely will you play play that one for us i'm william callahan all right it's i just uh i wrote the song with friend of mine uh tim crackle he was great he was a great guitar player and uh played with jimmy buffett for a long time and uh and he's a friend of mine and uh we wrote a bunch of songs together and uh this is one we wrote and i always loved the song and uh but there was a thing or two you know we we'd sit down and write a song we'd write it you know we'd write it okay let's let's go drink a beer and you know so there's you know when you're doing that you don't go back to it but i always like the lyrics of it and the uh subject matter and uh so i got ready to make this record and i thought about that song and i thought you know i can rewrite a little bit of this so i went and put in uh dragging back out and i wrote i rewrote several lines in the song and uh changed the chorus a little bit and uh completely changed the melody on it to where it felt comfortable to me and uh you know so that's where that that came from when i put it out on uh almost daylight yeah but uh i see i'll give it a shot [Music] [Music] well i'm william callahan i used to be rambling man left on 17th hyped freight to birmingham started poor's kentucky cope lined my pocket with denver gold not been cold as the last snow searching for the sun [Music] was a long time ago [Music] i had restless souls [Music] trains come whistle blow [Music] i let them roll [Music] this is my wife angeline she used to be cajun queen took her from the mayor's son bourbon street in new orleans she had will no man contain took a chance when they came leaving me on a midnight train searching for the sun was a long time ago [Music] she had restless soul the trains come the whistle blow she let him roll [Music] trains roll blowing steam through an old man a little woman's dream we look in each other's eyes and like we've [Music] we think we did all right was a long time ago [Music] we had restless soul [Music] trains come the whistle blown [Music] we let them roll [Music] so [Music] so from that from that first little guitar well you wanted a guitar at three years old did you get it yeah i got i had several of them they ended up getting broke you know somebody would break it over each other's head we saw that on movies you know i practiced on each other huh yeah i got you so yeah it's just uh yeah i'm three years old one record that was really cool way back here that we had was like the ventures singing uh playing i don't know if you are familiar with them but they were playing some really cool guitar music and this might have come from my aunt but uh you know johnny rivers we had an old record of his and uh with secret agent man you know and he was a hell of a guitar player and it just i don't know it just i always wanted to play kind of and i had a imitation electric guitar too and i remember looking at that and the neck was broke you know it was just a little metal get it was a metal guitar okay you probably could have tuned it up and play it but i had no idea how to tune it up but uh eventually you know it just got destroyed and uh and then when my uh my brother got out of high school i was still i was 15 i guess and he he was working in the coal mines he probably 19 20 years old he went to college for a while and he went in the mines and so he come in one day and he had a he had a there was an acoustic guitar laying on the couch i came home to school and he was gone working second shift in the mines you know he was hey he would work till whenever they got off midnight and then drink and smoke pot till daylight and then you know come home and and uh and uh go to bed and get up go to work but he had that guitar laying there and a chord book and uh i just came in i sat down i remember fooling with it all night you know yeah i got up next morning and went to school and i just stayed with it you know i was eat up with the guitar yeah and that's when i started learning songs and and uh singing you know trying to sing yeah i'm still trying i ain't never been accused of being a good singer oh mate so uh i mentioned earlier that uh one of my favorite episodes is going to play on our radio show this week and that's the time i got to sit up with with billy joe shaver and you know we lost a lot of really great songwriters this year including one that i know was extremely special to you and probably somebody you really cut your teeth learning how to play the guitar was on john prine's song got to do a pretty special thing with him on the latest record yeah tell us a little bit about john as an influence and maybe some of the other guys that made you want to want to learn their songs oh you know it is i mean i was just hearing everything on the radio up till i was about 12 13 years old i remember actually being 12 years old and we had we had the uh every picture tells a story a roster and it's a great album and we uh and i listened to that a lot you know i listened to it even after you know i started listening to everything else and i still listen to it every now and then but if just it's a great album and uh somewhere along in there i mean and this sounds crazy but like uh spiders and snakes by jim stafford i heard that on the radio and i said hell yeah i like the way that sounds you know i like the instrumentation and everything it wasn't just uh pop music you know it was uh it just sounded cool you know and and uh and then blackwater by the duver brothers came out and that's what just completely turned me into like just seeking out music like that my brother probably by that time he had a big record collection uh where i was listening to john prime when i was 13 years old he was already you know i mean he had he was he was making money and he was uh you know we had tv that used should just roll you know it's black and white now i couldn't get nobody to come and watch tv none of my friends would come to my house and watch tv because we had a black and white tv and uh uh and him and my mother he was waiting to go to work him my mother was sitting there my mother drove a school bus and she was waiting to go on her route middle of the day or whatever and there's so proper zone or something and he told her get up get you cold on let's take a ride and they went to madisonville and uh he wrote a i mean he bought a uh a brand new color tv you know you know one of those about this size you know console tv and then he had a big stereo too you know a big pioneer stereo with the big speakers and a huge record collection you know and that's where i was listening hearing all that then everybody wanted to come to the house right yeah [Laughter] now nobody really wanted to come [Laughter] that wasn't enough of an attraction okay so so somewhere you know you you in between that three-year-old and and uh you you making your trip to nashville and in 1998 you know getting signed to a record deal and and you know when did you decide to write like start writing your own songs you were learning other people's songs but when did you start deciding you're going to try to write your own song well i've been right trying for you know since i started playing the guitar okay and i just i knew you know i just didn't have it at that time you know it would have been great if i could have uh you know really started writing decent songs when i was like 20 21 22 and i always wanted to try to be in the music business but uh i knew you know i mean i i was always torn between doing something like that and then just you know i went to college i got a i got a bachelor's degree in agriculture it was like you know i got i was always torn in between being a irresponsible musician singer songwriter and and making a living myself and taking care of myself i didn't want to be living off my parents and sleeping on people's couches and like that you know yeah but you know um at 26 i started i didn't even have guitar for like two years two or three years because i sold it to a guy you know and uh a friend of mine actually and then one day i was walking through a mall over in evansville indiana and uh with the girl i was dating at the time and there was a guitar hanging up there and it was an old alvarez and i picked it up and uh that was great guitar sounded really good and i wrote the majority of the songs that i've i've written on that guitar really and uh you know just sitting at the kitchen table you know you couldn't plug it in and make it sound very good but you know it was just uh at that time about that time was when i started writing songs i heard steve earl they were playing him on the radio and i remember the first time i ever called a radio station was i heard arlene by marty stewart it's all in about 86 maybe 87 and uh and it says marty stewart singing arlene and which was his first radio song and uh you know i just i wanted to do that yeah well it didn't didn't well we say it didn't take long so i i started writing at that time yeah so you feel like you really started seriously writing at 26. or yeah okay yeah 26 i i wrote probably 60 songs there the first year and then just kept on writing and i started sending songs to nashville and found some publishers that would actually listen to them you know put them on a cassette tape and they'd uh i'd get handwritten i got handwritten letters you know we like what you're doing just keep writing yeah you know and uh so i did and finally you know just went to nashville got on writer's night and you know just lucked out you know uh the guy that signed me to uh my first publishing deal and then my first record deal was in the audience and i played some songs you know he saw something and yeah and i went down played for him and then still took about a year and a half to even hook back up with him but i went down to his office and he said you know you got one finished song and so um he said i i need i had like five songs i had a bunch of songs but i wouldn't play them for anybody and he said i need you know i need 25 30 songs you know and he hooked me up with some people uh going and playing writer's nights and i just kept writing writing and then i started playing writing some better songs and then he he i met back up with him and played him the newer songs and and he decided that he would uh make a commitment and you know he said but i need a new song every week so it's frank liddell so i'd write a new song every week take it down there and play it for him and he eventually got me signed to my publishing deal and then signed me to uh by the time i signed the publishing deal he moved to deca records and he signed me over there and a deck of records for my first record deal that's frank ledell and that's where that's probably where most of us heard from you first yeah so i want to ask you about the first song on that record it ain't easy being me yeah it ain't easy being me that's a i mean that's a great song and and the other thing i want to know is how much dust you ate during the filming of that music video with all those uh at the the crash up derby i don't even remember it just you know i don't think it was that bad right not that bad it wasn't at that time you know it's probably bothering me now but but it was a it was a lot of fun making a video you play that one for us sure are y'all doing okay out there is everybody good that's it [Music] do i'll be a tan somewhere named for how i feel yeah i could be the mayor dan welcome to sorryville [Music] it wouldn't be on the map no way you might say they don't exist [Music] if you make another wrong turn it'll be hard to miss [Music] [Music] gasoline [Music] walk on over to the other side there i light a match [Music] i'm [Music] myself shoot the light curse the dark lead your love but break your heart i know the words that'll bring you back i don't say nothing as to what you pay had to work to be the jerk i've come to be [Music] it ain't easy [Music] [Music] the marquee in a room with a big red button that says danger do not touch twice a day i'd mash it down and you could watch me self-destruct yeah why do i do the things i do was a boneless way of myself made fruit shoot the life curse dark need your love but break your heart i know the words that'll bring you back don't say nothing as to what you pay i had to work to be the jerk i've come to be [Music] me [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you as a as a as a songwriter you know you mentioned having a publishing deal and being in being in nashville writing songs you've you've had some songs recorded by by other artists uh you know there's there's a pretty long list blake shelton's on it but one of the people that that uh i like really uh their version of one of your songs out of all the people that have cut your songs is frank liddell's wife leanne womack yeah uh and and you you included your version of send it on down on the most recent record uh what'd you think about her version i thought it was really good well she she came and sang on the record in the studio and she uh brought her own she brought her own deal to that and it made it was really good she she she come up with a part to play to sing with me not just a harmony part and uh yeah i thought it was great you know it's it's really uh you know i mean i've i've i i was around leanne and frank you know back when i was with decker you know and all the other artists that were on deca and just hanging out and stuff like that so i knew her and been around her a good bit so i was glad she came down and did it but uh yeah i liked her version well it's a great song i i love sending it on down is there any i mean any any big back story on that one or just where were you at when you sat and wrote that one that's another song that a friend of mine david leone we we wrote several songs together we wrote north dakota together and we had this idea and uh we sat down wrote it and uh it pretty much was the same song you know that i recorded but i did change one line on it and uh when i recorded it because another one of those songs is like it's just one line in there i don't you know i can't sing and so i changed it and uh whenever i recorded it so you know um i i had i had people that i like to write with you know and i'd write with them and then we get to a certain point where like you know we we done wrote all the songs we could write you know i did i've done that with a lot of people you know when you write a bunch of songs you have a great time you know but you want to play that one for us i know those come [Music] [Music] so [Music] um [Music] so [Music] daddy's on the hardware store [Music] we're in him and round [Music] i know he's who i got my drinking from [Music] [Music] [Music] gonna be gone where the fall rolls around [Music] jesus would you save me i'm going crazy [Music] i need some help getting out of this [Music] town [Music] while i'm still able to be found [Music] [Music] i'm sitting in the bleachers at the football field [Music] i got a pretty good buzz from the quarter just killed [Music] it's a cold sunday morning and the church bears rain [Music] i can just about hear all the good folks sing [Music] jesus wasn't save me [Music] i'm going crazy [Music] i need some help getting out of this town are they an answer but you'll like to hear one well if you got something to send it on down [Music] while i'm still able to be found [Music] [Music] thank you that's a great song so that one's on the almost daylight record and another one i wanted to ask you about on that record is a crooked mile tell us about that song play it for us yeah i love i had that first couple of verses laying around for a good while uh he's been playing it trying to figure out what to do with the chorus and uh it just took a took a long time it's probably two years from the time i started writing it until i finished it up finished up with gary nixon uh he's another texan and uh and uh yeah he he we wrote a bunch of songs together me and gary did and and uh we i i wrote we had we were all around the idea for the course and you know we just kept hacking at it and finally got it together and then but yeah i always liked the idea of the song i'm not sure what the gift factor is [Laughter] of it but i always liked it so we're playing for you thank you [Music] so we're good her cold black guys and a heart broke smile [Music] follow me down cookie mouth [Music] everybody say we ain't no good we ain't going back even if we could [Music] back in the woods where the loud won't go down in the isle where the wind don't [Music] blow [Music] alone [Music] no wrong two i ain't even been living i ain't even been living till i found you [Music] she followed me down she ain't got no spidey got no guy she won't let me quit won't let me run holding me tight sleeping by her gun [Music] and i ain't never had nothing ain't never had nothing to hold on to [Music] i ain't even been delivered ain't even been living till i found you [Music] they're cold black and a heart broke smile [Music] follow me down crooked mind [Music] everybody said we ain't no good [Music] ain't going back even if we could they never had nothing to hold on to i ain't even been living i ain't even been lit until i found you [Music] do [Music] thank you got to be a band out there that can do a lot better job on that song than i do it's kind of cool to get the acoustic version from a kentucky boy in old kentucky barn right here in the middle of the woodlands texas so we're we appreciate you being here and doing that for us did you ever find out where it came from hey is michael ford or steve still around here where's this where was this uh do you know where this barn was what town they they pulled it out of just northern connecticut a rock's throw away from indiana so south africa would have been normal uh okay so you mentioned kind of the late 80s about the same time you probably hearing steve earl for the first time was the first time i was hearing him and as a big you know bruce springs frank springsteen fan and john mellencamp fan and i always i always kind of lean towards the the story songs and one of your story songs that i would just put right there in the category of any of the best stuff from those guys is is down the river i mean what a great story and a a great song man i mean i don't know that one needs a whole lot of explanation but what do you want to tell us about that one well i'll tell you but i'd kill you [Laughter] play on play on i don't know i mean i've spent time when i was a kid around the green river with my brother and my dad fishing trot lines and you know and you know my older brother he had a boat you know when uh he was in high school we had trout lines during the summer and i'd help him out a little bit and then my you know my dad take off from work and uh during the summer and we'd run lines out there and uh i don't know there's just a lot of people a lot of people down there and you know there's always some kind of something going on you know with somebody fixing to somebody running somebody else's lines and things like that somebody getting in a fight in town and things like that you know and uh i was in chattanooga uh doing uh some kind of festival down there and uh i could see the the uh cumberland that when the cumberland it was the tennessee river from work from from my motel room and i wrote that song in like a little over an hour wow you know i just well yeah just you know i've been on the road while and you know just was thinking about it yeah so yeah it's it's been a good song for me it's a great song for us i really don't ever get tired playing [Music] hmm [Music] when i was 18 my brother was 21. one saturday evening when all the work was done we went down to the river as a pride land run my brother walter had a fight week before knocked a boy named wilson through the pool door said you don't mess with wilson unless you want war [Music] i put the boat in the water i made the engine run loaded the ladder against the sinking sun my brother walter would load in his gun we went down the river [Music] down past the cold dock we'll run in our land heard some drunken voters racing love behind is wilson and his cousin had trouble on their mind [Music] they passed on buyers probably going to detent their pipe we headed up the river with the fish we caught but before we made the land i thought i heard down the river [Music] my brother walter fell over the side i couldn't find him no matter how i tried i looked along the bank couldn't find with it they drove the river [Music] inserted up and down couldn't find his body [Music] around town so one night i floated down right above with a sunshine my head in the woods until i saw him walk out back i put a bullet in his head dropped him in his [Music] he trash down the river [Music] do [Music] down below the treasure where the wider run slow i chained him to an anvil and then i let him go and five years later i ain't told [Music] of my brother is still heavy on my mind i've been thinking with some cousins but i find a place to have cause i'm going down the river yeah i'm going down the river [Music] thank you so that was on the record a pretty good guy which is a that's a great uh great record thank you i want to ask you if you do one more off that record for us becky's bible well i you might have to get somebody to overdub part of i'm sure you can cut this part out hey edited for rebroadcast we can uh we can cut it out unless we love it and then we'll leave it in y'all still all doing all right out there everybody go tonight this is much better than anything on netflix or anything else we could be doing this is like the best right here [Music] i think he just got one he's got the bottomless bucket back behind him it's perfect for a wednesday night while they're tuning i'll tell you uh our shows have been kind of you know a little bit a little bit off schedule wise because the whole code thing but there's a date in march on your upcoming event sheet you can check out uh my friend wade bowen's going to come back and sit down with us and and hang out and then for anybody that's here from the houston area this one's going to be really cool and kind of historic and fun for me in june we get to uh we get to sit right here with mickey gilly and johnny lee and talk to them about the whole urban cowboy i mean it's going to be a crazy crazy deal and so anyway if you're having fun tonight with this this show and hanging out and listening and learning come join us again the same one they would have been using okay there it know what is key i'm in man i've got i found [Music] so [Music] so let the bottom rail on my pistol [Music] see my chevy pickup truck i'm taking these gravel roads as fast as my truck will go i'm running like a scared white tail bug [Music] it wasn't our night card game but they're already involved [Music] that boy didn't like me and he said i was cheating gunshots rang out on the midnight air [Music] don't want to see the daylight but my back is alone tonight i wonder if she went in love for me [Music] [Music] i know that swamp like the back of my head i was born and raised here wanted to be a good old boy never thought i'd ever be a wanted man but soon they're gonna catch me ain't nowhere around there cause i don't know any other place to hide i wonder if becca's bible [Music] is still in the glove box [Music] back is alone tonight i wonder if she waiting up for me [Music] sometime tomorrow morning without be fishing they'll probably be calling me i'll be sitting in the jailhouse [Music] no need to be wishing i'll ever get to fish the green river again i'll be praying for some daylight while my biggest lonely night i wonder if she went up for me [Music] i wonder if she went enough for me [Music] do [Music] do thank you very much i spent uh i spent several summers working for my cousin out in east texas and uh one of my my uncles by marriage worked out in the oil patch and the first time i ever heard your song oil patch man it took me back to driving around in that old ford f-150 he'd shine the cue beam to make sure that rigs were running good and he'd reach behind him and grab a hot banquet coors beer from behind the seat of the truck and offer me one at about you know 12 years old and i think i took a sip of it and politely declined after uh after that warm original spirit i learned to drink hot beer that's pretty rough you're not here you're pretty committed if if you do that but uh one thing i love chris about your music is just that it it it seems to take me to the place that you're singing about i wonder if you'd sing that one for us tonight yeah yeah this is silver kentucky 1976. they had a uh two bootleggers in the town and uh and i i could go buy a beer when i was like 13 14. at the bootleggers and one of them was old uh had two daughters and they would they had a window in the living room and uh he had two young daughters they were they were a year or two younger than me but they would uh take your order and go get your beer they'd raise that window up and they'd give you your beer just like and uh and their daddy would be sitting in his easy chair and her bossing them girls around they they probably thought i was you know 15 or something you know because i was always big for my age you know but it's true story [Music] you cut this part out too [Music] so [Music] [Music] now we need someone the back my buddy little oh he never got no money but he dranks up most bear every time [Music] by nine o'clock gotta have case between uh pulling this quick pick little head ass some smokes i said [Music] [Music] here comes cop carl little says sympathy bill would say i bet you another friday night [Music] the winter state troopers come around now we ain't looking for trolls wouldn't mind the fight what else you gonna do is just another friday night [Music] it's about all the fighting that got done [Music] he's acting tough and take a name shutting us down but at least we got something to talk about when monday rolls around another friday night [Music] in this old patch town [Music] keep the fears out of sight [Music] wouldn't mind [Music] now [Music] night [Music] [Applause] hey have you all had a good time tonight chris we got we got time for a couple more i've kind of been leading you all over the place tonight uh so i think i probably should let you pick a couple of songs that that you want to close us out with tonight i i would love to hear framed i would love to hear a little bit of the story behind that one and hear that one but but but you pick [Music] here they come [Music] all right hit the ball a little too well yeah i know they played that in a long time [Music] nothing [Music] so [Music] bar room fight went home dug it out with my old bug now i broke down in a blizzard on a great device walked 20 miles until i caught a ride the trooper said boy it's a wonder you're still alive [Music] i've wrote hard love [Music] getting back up now they're laying them off down the key there's boards on the windows up and down the street they're saying that it's gonna get darker before the dawn well you bet your ass i'll keep the lights on keep my babies fed and throw my dog bone i'ma bring it on get her done don't run sob times are tough but they ain't got nothing on me [Music] i got a three-legged dog i called jake got to want back down scars on his face he tussled with the bear came in second place he comes back home every night with some brand new scars and i have to grin you know i'm proud to call jake my friend uh he's rolled hard love he been bruised and bugged he's been hitting the ground turning around and getting back up but now the land will move down to kinky there's boards on the windows up and down the streets saying that it's gonna get darker before the dawn but you can bet your ass i'll keep the lights on keep my baby's feet and throw my dog bone imma bring it on get her done don't run s.o.b [Music] at times but they ain't got nothing on me [Music] times are tough but they got nothing on me [Applause] [Music] do [Music] well chris i think i can probably say it i know i can say for myself i can probably say it for from everybody else here too is thank you for making the trek all the way down from kentucky and starting your your run with this show tonight it's been a it's been a pleasure getting to hear more about your music good beer we appreciate it [Applause] well uh you get to finish this out however you want to finish this out i'll say thank you to of course the folks here at docido they've been letting us do this for 14 years interview interview people whose music we love we appreciate that thank you chicago title for being our sponsor this season and thank you to all you guys for coming out tonight we sure appreciate that thank you very much [Applause] this uh i wrote this along with uh another song send a boat in about two days three days i think i just holed up in my trailer and didn't come out and wrote these two songs just framed i think the last time i played this was uh march 15th at austin texas i got run out of town [Applause] no no more last show um [Music] well i was all alone years ago that shot this fight the night before the local man lay dead on the floor and the dust flying in the lumber [Music] [Music] knock me down and put the handcuffs on i was praying they took me away like i was the only one to blame frank guilty they said railroaded me [Music] that's all i say don't be running down my name i was praying if i joke right through glass with the murder trial i see the land i love that woman i told you it's been austin texas in march [Laughter] well thank you for trying that give me the lyrics i i'll play joe cries through the glass that's a [Music] murderer now [Music] all right [Music] well see now you get to hear another one here we go [Applause] okay hold tight all right i've been making chris i've been making him him uh follow my lead all night so we'll let him pick pick one to end us with tonight all right [Music] i play when i know i'm sorry about that i have to go on youtube sometime to remember the lyrics to my song or just google the lyrics you know that's awesome [Music] [Music] sit back looking for me gonna take back what they own they can find their red camaro on the dixon road in a flooded cornfield laying on its air i'm trying to dodge a cold truck now i'm trying to thumb right but i won't look back look bad i guess i head on out to knoxville got an uncle out there said give me on at the sawmill if i cut my hair maybe catch you right in the morning sleep for night too don't worry about me baby i do what i gotta do and i won't look back won't look bad [Music] i don't know why i called you just wanted to explain anybody come looking for me you never heard the name i guess i should have known girl [Music] i walked out on you you about the only good thing that i'll ever do and i won't look back won't look bad [Music] do [Music] ladies and gentlemen mr chris knight thank you all right he's going thank y'all for coming

Channel: Real Life, Real Music

Views: 3,733

Rating: 5 out of 5

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Id: 8zH4AdDyQj0

Length: 108min 0sec (6480 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021