Ben Knight

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“Put a country song on the radio none of that fake shit give me something old and point me down a country road, uhuh ”. So starts the second verse of Ben Knight’s song Take Me Somewhere on his first EP and his first serious recording; and that line says a lot about the CD. In this five song collection “Dog Days”, Ben sticks mostly to folk and blues in style. His subject matter covers trailers, prescription pills, love, science and God. But this isn’t radio country, something he

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