Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, this award-winning folk and Americana singer/songwriter and Falling Mountain recording artist’s musical journey has traced nearly half a million miles of blue highways and small towns nationwide, and earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and enthusiastic fan response for his four CDs and captivating performances. That impressive discography includes his latest, Beyond Borders, one of five 2005 Americana Album of the Year finalists in the Independent Music Awards. One of its songs, “Good Things Matter,” was the winner of the 2005 Great American Song Contest (Acoustic/Folk). Wherever McKnight takes the stage, audiences are at once spellbound and relaxed by his entertaining stories delivered with just the right touches of down-home humor, causing one concertgoer to label him “equal parts Robert Frost, William Least Heat-Moon and Jeff Foxworthy!” He has shared those attributes in a wide variety of performance settings, including the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the Kennedy Center, Mountain Stage NewSong Festival, Chattanooga Riverbend Festival, Baltimore’s Artscape Festival, and the nationally syndicated public and satellite radio shows River City Folk and The Midnight Special. “With a voice reminiscent of Don McLean, McKnight traverses from old-time Appalachian tunes to contemporary folk and blues, all backed up by his dead-on guitar playing.” – Boston Globe
