Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox / Various Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox / Various CD

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.

1. Jay Reatard - Pull Down the Shades 2. The Checks - Rebel 3. The Bleeding Allstars - Ain't It Nice 4. Peter Gutteridge - Don't Catch Fire 5. The Chills - Luck or Loveliness 6. David Kilgour - Nothing's Going to Happen 7. The Crying Wolfs - All My Hollowness to You 8. Stephin Merritt - Beauty 9. Portastatic - Nostalgia's No Excuse 10. The Mint Chicks - Crush 11. Jay ; Sam Clarkson - I've Left Memories Behind 12. Sky Green Leopards - Burning Blue 13. Shayne Carter - the Slide 14. Pumice - Grand Mal 15. Hamish Kilgour - Knoxed Out 16. Boh Runga - Not Given Lightly 17. Red ; Zeke - Bodies [FT. Bill Doss and Neil Cleary] 18. Jeff Mangum - Sign the Dotted Line 19. Bill Callahan - Lapse 20. Genghis Smith - Growth Spurt 21. Yo la Tengo - Coloured 22. A.C. Newman - Dunno Much About Life But I Know How to Breathe 23. Alec Bathgate - Glide 24. Don McGlashan - Inside Story 25. Sean Donnelly - the Outer Skin 26. Lambchop - What Goes Up 27. The Mountain Goats - Brave 28. The Tokey Tones (And Friends) - Round These Walls 29. The Bats - Just Do It 30. Bonnie Prince Billy - My Only Friend 31. The Finn Family - It's Love 32. Jordan Luck - Becoming Something Other 33. The Verlaines - Driftwood 34. Lou Barlow - Song of the Tall Poppy 35. The Nothing - Napping in Lapland 36. Tall Dwarfs - Sunday Song