Poor Little Knitter On The Road: A Tribute To The Knitters

Poor Little Knitter On The Road: A Tribute To The Knitters Artist: Various Artists
Label: Bloodshot Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 744302005225
EAN: 0744302005225
ASIN: B00000K2DN


Release Date: 1999-10-12

Poor Little Knitter On The Road: A Tribute To The Knitters


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Tracks:

  1. Poor Little Critter On The Road - Trailer Bride
  2. Someone Like You - Kelly Hogan & The Rock*A*Teens
  3. Walkin' Cane - The Sadies
  4. Silver Wings - Whiskey Town
  5. Poor Old Heartsick Me - Ground Speed
  6. The New World - The Blacks
  7. Cryin' But My Tears Are Far Away - Old 9Ts
  8. Love Shack - Anna Fermin & Friends
  9. The Call Of The Wreckin' Ball - Robbie Fulks
  10. Trail Of Time - The Handsome Family
  11. Baby Out Of Jail - 99 Tales
  12. Rock Island Line - Devil In A Woodpile
  13. Why Dont We Try Anymore - The Knitters

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In 1985 members of X and the Blasters paid tribute to the classic country of the Carter Family and Merle Haggard, recording as the Knitters (a play on words of folk family the Weavers). Here late-'90s alternative-country artists bow to the Knitters, covering the dozen songs on 1985's <I>Poor Little Critter on the Road</I> in order. Bloodshot's insurgent stable dominates the record, led by Trailer Bride's rollicking title song; Catherine Ann Irwin (of Freakwater) and the Sadies on the traditional "Walkin' Cane"; and Devil in a Woodpile (with vocalist Jane Baxter Miller), who nail Leadbelly's railroad song "Rock Island Line." The only swing-and-a-miss is Whiskeytown's plodding interpretation of Haggard's "Silver Wings," the Knitters' best as sung by John Doe, who appears twice here: with the Old 97's on "Cryin' but My Tears Are Far Away" and with the reunited Knitters on "Try Anymore." <I>--Scott Holter</I>

Album Description

1999 tribute to the Knitters, the offshoot 'country' band fromed by Exene, John Doe and DJ Bonebrake from X and the Blasters' Dave Alvin. Features current acts performing all of the cuts from the Knitters' sole album, including Old '97s (with John Doe!), The Sadies with Catherine Irwin and Ground Speed with Nora O'Connor. 13 tracks total.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not bad, but..........2004-01-23

Not bad, but the original Knitters were *so* much better! I recommend anyone buy the original first. That was truly a work of unvarnished American rockabilly-punk. Listening again to my vinyl copy I hear mistakes, things falling on the floor in the background, general chaos--in a word, *energy*. Really high energy. Just listening to the original Knitters' "Rock Island Line," brings back that visceral disgust I felt then for anyone over the age of 21! For X, The Cramps, and guys like Billy Zoom, Dave Alvin, and even Brian Setzer, music was not about airplay but about nasty, dark, smoky clubs the size of garages that fat, tassel-loafer-and-shorts middle-aged suburban guys use for their Z3s, their neglected wives' SUVs and their riding lawn mowers, and found in nasty, dark, smelly alleys of downtown where the rats under the dumpsters were the size of the wife's jack russell.

So if you *really* want to hear rockabilly-punk, find the original. And if you're sick to death of market-driven, techno-busy pop like Britney, Eminem or any other current "musician" then dig up other stuff made or produced by these old rockabilly guys--just read the liner notes and go from there. If you're unconvinced of the terminal zombifying effects of record company marketing just listen to an old 1963 recording of the Beatles playing the Star Club in Hamburg, and you'll understand. Even *they* were a different band back then--they had ENERGY!

4 out of 5 stars

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