The online and print media have been kind to us recently, both for previews of Andrew's concerts nationwide as well as their reaction to Something Worth Standing For. To all of you who found nuggets in his work worthy of your pen, thank you! Here is a sampling if you'd like to read more:

Jan. 7, 2010, Herald-Mail (Hagerstown MD), "Standing for Something"
"It's been nearly 15 years since Andrew McKnight shed a corporate environmental engineering career for the life of a full-time musician...." Read the article

Dec. 2009, Connecticut College, "Three alumni find their life's work in music"
"Driving home to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from a gig in Asheville, N.C., Andrew McKnight '89 found himself contemplating the links between his major at Connecticut College and his compulsion to write songs...." Read the article

Oct. 8, 2009, The Washington Post, concert preview
"The skillful songwriter's interest in history is revealed in songs such as the Civil War ballad "The Road to Appomattox" and the soldier's elegy "Wind Whispers Your Name." McKnight's social concerns are apparent in material such as "These Shoes" (an immigrant worker's tale) and "Times We're Living In" (examining the human toll of Hurricane Katrina), but he avoids stridency by crafting vignettes told from the point of view of those in pain and keeps dourness at bay with skillful arrangements and varied instrumentation. He also works in true folkie tradition, updating lyrics to classic material such as "Worried Man Blues" or reworking Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" to place himself mano-a-devil...."   Read the article

Sept. 3, 2009 Gazette Newspapers (MD): "Back to the Beyond"
Singer and songwriter Andrew McKnight, described by critics as having an "Appalachian soul," can't wait to return to Brunswick.... Read the article

March 16, 2009, Boro House Concerts (Lascassas TN), " Another Success: An Evening with Andrew McKnight"
"Andrew is also a terrific singer/songwriter. His songs come from a very well-thought out need to say what needs to be said. He’s an intellectual songwriter. Whether he’s writing about a Civil War soldier, a West Virginia coal mine, or a polluted river in eastern Tennessee, his word are carefully chosen and his music is evocative of the time and place he is singing about...." Read the article

Dec. 4, 2008 Bristol (TN-VA) Herald-Courier, "New Music Venue Opens in Abingdon"
"I think the audience deserves me telling the story the best way I can tell them.” McKnight’s latest album, Something Worth Standing For, does exactly that.... Read the article

Sept./Oct. 2008, Performing Songwriter, Top 12 DIY Selection
"Stretching across the landscape of American folk music is a highway paved by Guthrie and Dylan. Artists like Chuck Brodsky and Richard Shindell have done their share of road maintenance, and now Virginia native Andrew McKnight takes his turn smoothing down the blacktop" ... Read the review

Sept. 10, 2008 Hartford (CT) Courant, "Folk Star McKnight To Perform At Bristol Historical Society"
McKnight's show at the Bristol Historical Society will be a tribute to his grandmother, a longtime city resident who ran the nursing department at Bristol Hospital in the early 1960s... Read the article

Aug. 28, 2008 Frederick (MD) News-Post, Andrew McKnight & Beyond Borders Concert Preview
"(Songwriting's) still an attempt to make a difference," he said. "Just without the calculus."... Read the article

Aug. 28, 2008 Gazette Newspapers (MD): "Beyond the Belfry" (Concert Preview)
You never know what you might hear when acoustic band Andrew McKnight and Beyond Borders takes the stage... Read the article

July 19, 2008 Rambles.net, CD Review
McKnight sings of murdered civil rights workers in the deep South, the government's tendency to spy on its citizens, the loss of family farms -- it's a familiar litany, but McKnight is careful to make it personal; he does not, like so many artists, simply catalogue the actions and scream, "Evil, evil!"... Read the article

June 26, 2008 The Muse's Muse, CD Review
Andrew McKnight is a purposeful songwriter and surehanded guitar player, and with Something Worth Standing For he has crafted an album that is acoustic-folk in general yet filled with interesting takes on that genre... Read the article

May 9, 2008 Everett (WA) Herald: "Andrew McKnight: Folksinger stands for something"
When Andrew McKnight started work as an environmental engineer, he thought, "OK, I'm done hauling amps around in smoky bars at 3 am... Read the article

May 1, 2008 Eureka (CA) Times-Standard: "Concert Preview: Andrew McKnight"
... a masterful acoustic musician and vocalist whose creative skills as a song/lyric writer are equally awe-inspiring.... Read the article

April 29, 2008 Go! Loudoun Times-Mirror (VA): "Making Tracks: Loudoun groups striking chords in music circles"
These are songs that bring a new energy to the tradition of Tom Paxton, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and Pete Seeger... Read the article

April 25, 2008 Palo Alto (CA) Daily News: "New Releases Prove Relevant"
With this outstanding new album, the award-winning Shenandoah Valley singer-songwriter continues to enlighten, as well as entertain... Read the article

April 3, 2008 Worcester (MA) Magazine: "Café Fantastique once again: Andrew McKnight headlines benefit for WCUW"
When singer/songwriter Andrew McKnight talks about community radio, he says it's a subject that is near and dear... Read the article

April 1, 2008 Telegram & Gazette: "McKnight a musical rebel with more than one cause"
Singer and songwriter Andrew McKnight is not one to complain. Or at least just complain.... Read the article

March 21, 2008 Leesburg Today: "McKnight Plays The Barns At Franklin Park Saturday"
Middleburg-based singer and songwriter Andrew McKnight will celebrate the release of his fifth CD, Something Worth Standing For... Read the article

Note: The links will work as long as the sources keep the articles in their archives.