And perhaps most importantly, it made a fan out of one of her future bosses. And on the other side she just threw on some of the other stuff she was working to radio. It wasn't the name of a place first, it was the name of a mountain range first. That kind of music and that kind of vibe does not stop at the Mason-Dixon line. New Hampshire looks a lot like the Smokey Mountains. . . .
Rural life is rural life, let's face it.
It's always been the same. Not a bad little band Knight's assembled either, with Ryan, Spencer, Earle, and crackerjack veteran drummer Will Rigby forming the core. And for what it's worth, I don't hear some apparently mythical Appalachia in her music, just the hard work of a woman with a green thumb and a dusky voice who happens to live in small-town Western Massachusetts.