‘I’ve got things I can’t recall

Like the colours of my bedroom wall

Oh, I can’t decide if I

Want to know these things or why

They bother me and tantalise me so’

— from ‘I’ve Left Memories Behind’

In the mid-1990s, the Village Voice described Chris Knox as ‘indie rock’s premier oddball singer songwriter’ and, when Knox suffered a stroke a decade later, music icons such as Yo La Tengo, Bill Callahan, Neil Finn and Shayne Carter all showed up for concerts and a tribute album. Who is this...