Jess Knights is a soul-roots singer-songwriter with a renegade spirit and luminous voice. Though she spent a decade cutting her teeth in dive bars belting out the blues, her debut full-length record, Best Kind of Light, released in June 2020, is steeped in roots music with revivalist soul. Recorded with award-winning producer Joshua Van Tassel and the crème de la crème of songsmiths and sidemen, including Donovan Woods, Joey Landreth, R. Grunwald, and others, the album brings into focus the moody, dimly-lit spectrum of her classically-trained voice, which has drawn comparisons to U.K. luminaries Amy Winehouse and Eliza Doolittle. Able to traverse sultry ballads and raise-the-roof-off-the-church soul with ease, this dynamo performer is bound to leave an impression.