Stroke Songs For Chris Knox / Various Ltd- Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox / Various [Limited Edition]
On June 11 2009 musician, artist, father, writer, film critic & Jandal wearer Chris Knox suffered a life-altering stroke at his home in Grey Lynn, New Zealand. Everyone wanted to do something to help, so a bunch of his musician mates from New Zealand and around the world have gotten together to do what they do best to celebrate Chris' music by recording versions of his songs. The selected tracks span Chris' entire career, from the Enemy, Toy Love, and Tall Dwarfs, to his solo recordings and his most recent band the Nothing. Jay Reatard, Yo La Tengo, the Mountain Goats, the Verlaine's, Boh Runga, David Kilgour, Lambchop, Bill Callahan, Will Oldham and many more have contributed songs to the album, which has 32 tracks in all. The stunning cover was designed by Chris' fellow Tall Dwarf band mate Alec Bathgate and uses Chris' favorite color combination of yellow and black. All proceeds is going to assist Chris with his recovery.
Tracklist:
- Pull Down the Shades - Jay Reatard
- Rebel - The Checks
- Ain't It Nice
- Don't Catch Fire - Peter Gutteridge
- Luck or Loveliness
- Nothing's Going to Happen
- All My Hollowness to You - The Crying Wolfs
- Beauty - Stephin Merritt
- Nostalgia's No Excuse - Portastatic
- Crush - The Mint Chicks
- I've Left Memories Behind - Jay Clarkson/Sam Clarkson
- Burning Blue - The Skygreen Leopards
- Slide, The - Shayne Carter
- Grand Mal - Pumice
- Knocked Out
- Not Given Lightly
- Bodies - (featuring Neil Cleary/Bill Doss)
- Sign the Dotted Line - Jeff Mangum
- Lapse - Bill Callahan
- Growth Spurt - Genghis Smith
- Coloured - Yo La Tengo
- Dunno Much About Life But I Know How to Breathe - A.C. Newman
- Glide
- Inside Story - Don McGlashan
- Outer Skin, The
- What Goes Up - Lambchop
- Brave - The Mountain Goats
- Round These Walls
- Just Do It
- My Only Friend - Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- It's Love
- Becoming Something Other - Jordan Luck/Bryan Bell
- Driftwood
- Song of the Tall Poppy - Lou Barlow
- Nappin' in Lapland
- Sunday Song
On June 11 2009 musician, artist, father, writer, film critic & Jandal wearer Chris Knox suffered a life-altering stroke at his home in Grey Lynn, New Zealand. Everyone wanted to do something to help, so a bunch of his musician mates from New Zealand and around the world have gotten together to do what they do best to celebrate Chris' music by recording versions of his songs. The selected tracks span Chris' entire career, from the Enemy, Toy Love, and Tall Dwarfs, to his solo recordings and his most recent band the Nothing. Jay Reatard, Yo La Tengo, the Mountain Goats, the Verlaine's, Boh Runga, David Kilgour, Lambchop, Bill Callahan, Will Oldham and many more have contributed songs to the album, which has 32 tracks in all. The stunning cover was designed by Chris' fellow Tall Dwarf band mate Alec Bathgate and uses Chris' favorite color combination of yellow and black. All proceeds is going to assist Chris with his recovery.
Tracklist:
- Pull Down the Shades - Jay Reatard
- Rebel - The Checks
- Ain't It Nice
- Don't Catch Fire - Peter Gutteridge
- Luck or Loveliness
- Nothing's Going to Happen
- All My Hollowness to You - The Crying Wolfs
- Beauty - Stephin Merritt
- Nostalgia's No Excuse - Portastatic
- Crush - The Mint Chicks
- I've Left Memories Behind - Jay Clarkson/Sam Clarkson
- Burning Blue - The Skygreen Leopards
- Slide, The - Shayne Carter
- Grand Mal - Pumice
- Knocked Out
- Not Given Lightly
- Bodies - (featuring Neil Cleary/Bill Doss)
- Sign the Dotted Line - Jeff Mangum
- Lapse - Bill Callahan
- Growth Spurt - Genghis Smith
- Coloured - Yo La Tengo
- Dunno Much About Life But I Know How to Breathe - A.C. Newman
- Glide
- Inside Story - Don McGlashan
- Outer Skin, The
- What Goes Up - Lambchop
- Brave - The Mountain Goats
- Round These Walls
- Just Do It
- My Only Friend - Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- It's Love
- Becoming Something Other - Jordan Luck/Bryan Bell
- Driftwood
- Song of the Tall Poppy - Lou Barlow
- Nappin' in Lapland
- Sunday Song