One Virginia Night

Award-winning singer/songwriter Andrew McKnight's music traverses influences from Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, rustic folk, and guitar-driven rock. Featuring founding Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member Les Thompson, Les' wife Stephanie Thompson, and Lisa Taylor, Andrew McKnight & Beyond Borders blends his charming tenor voice and acoustic and electric guitars with banjo, upright bass, drums, and percussion. Filmed in front of an enthusiastic capacity crowd near McKnight's northwestern Virginia home, 'One Virginia Night' is a crisply delivered collection of concert favorites and a few lesser-known gems from his solo discography as well as an original each from Taylor and Stephanie Thompson. The foursome infuse McKnight's songs with an energetic and eclectic perspective - beyond Appalachian, beyond blues, beyond folk. The live CD and bonus DVD marks Les Thompson's first full return to the stage since leaving NGDB after their double platinum classic 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken'. OVN includes Made by Hand, written by McKnight and Thompson with Chance McCoy (Old Crow Medicine Show), and covered by jam band faves Great American Taxi. Other highlights are the swingy Surveillance (also co-written with Thompson), their smoldering bluesy rework of the traditional Worried Man Blues, the world-beat tinged Beyond Borders complete with Taylor's drum solo, and Stephanie Thompson's What Kind of Person, recorded by Rani Arbo & Salamander Crossing. OVN also includes their take on Taylor's jazzy It Means a Lot from her 'True North' CD, named Best in Contemporary Folk by the Washington Area Music Association.