Label: Fat Possum
Reissued 3/11/2022, Originally released 1985
It's been 37 years since the release of Poor Little Critter on the Road, the debut album from The Knitters, the original Alt-Country band comprised of three members of X, one Blaster and a Red Devil. It was in 1985 that Exene Cervenka, John Doe and DJ Bonebrake joined Dave Alvin and Jonny Ray Bartel to record the critically acclaimed debut for a sound that Alvin described as "It's like if the guys at Sun Records dropped LSD and made a record with Lead Belly and the Carter Family. That's what The Knitters sound like." - Michael Major
Track listing:
- Poor Little Critter on the Road
- Someone Like You
- Walkin' Cane
- Silver Wings
- Poor Old Heartsick Me
- The New World
- Cryin' But My Tears Are Far Away
- Love Shack
- The Call of the Wreckin' Ball
- Trail of Time
- Baby Out of Jail
- Rock Island Line