After 23 years as a recording artist, singer-songwriter Chris Knight remains boldly empowered to make music that always delivers the unflinching truth. In fact, the man raised in Slaughters, Kentucky uses a simple, direct barometer to regularly check his muse: “If I can’t believe myself, I won’t sing the song.”

That brutally honest, no-frills philosophy fits his Americana-fueled, backwoods-grown merger of folk, country, and rock. It’s been at the backbone of nine studio albums, beginning with 1998’s acclaimed self-titled debut and traveling through scorchers such as the one-two punch of 2001’s "A Pretty Good Guy" and 2003’s "The Jealous Kind," two demo-styled discs (2007’s "The Trailer Tapes" and 2009’s "Trailer II"), and the recent, electric guitar-fortified opus, 2019’s "Almost Daylight."