Nashville Scene

Billboard, July 1998

By Chet Flippo

'40' Finds Sandy Knox in Upfront State of Mind

One of the most intriguing records of this year is Sandy Knox's debut album, "Pushin' 40, Never Married, No Kids," on her own Wrinkled Records. It's a 13-song witty, bittersweet look at exactly that; hitting the big four-zero all alone.

Long known as an extremely forthright songwriter with such compositions as "She Thinks His Name Was John," about a woman dying of AIDS, Knox tells Nashville Scene that she decided to do a concept album on the subject after "I realized that so many of my songs had a common thread." She says she encountered some resistance to the album title from friends and associates, but she eventually realized that "it's the truth." She says that literally as she sings in "I Wanna Know (The Betty Crocker Song)," "Between Betty Crocker and Betty Freidan I don't know who the hell I am."

She's primarily selling the album through her World Wide Web site. "It's selling fairly well on the Internet," Knox says. Among her accomplishments, her song "Does He Love You" won Reba McEntire and Linda Davis Grammys for vocal event of the year, as well as a Country Music Assn. (CMA) Award for vocal event of the year, and has been recorded as a duet by Liza Minnelli and Donna Summer.