Chicagoland singer-songwriter and composer Daniel Knox has been busy this year, even without the outlet of touring. He hasn’t played an in-person concert since a date at Union Hall in Brooklyn in early March—a subsequent spring tour supporting formerly Chicagoan duo the Handsome Family in Scandinavia and the UK was postponed due to COVID-19 (and has been rescheduled for spring 2021, fingers crossed). In February Knox released the tribute album Half Heart: Songs From Twin Peaks through his own H.P. Johnson Presents label, and in July he provided an approximate thematic opposite to its interpretations of the unsettling soundtrack of David Lynch’s epic television experiment: an homage to the songs that Mister Rogers created for his longtime children’s show entitled You Are My Friend: The Songs of Mister Rogers. It arrived as a gift for those of us searching for a bit of solace this summer, and Leor Galil reviewed it for the Reader at the time.
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