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If her first album, "Home Cookin'", was a country-flavored recipe of Kane's original compositions, "Knockout" puts her voice in the company of such songwriters as Isaac Hayes & David Porter, Lowell Gearge & Van Dyke Parks, Bob Dylan, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jack Tempchin, while a heart-achey duet with Beat Farmer Joey Harris on "There's Nobody Home" and a trip to her old turf in the atmospheric, autobiographical "Sharktown" are classic Kane. So the next time someone starts talking about notorious women, let 'em hear Knockout: it's a party that never ends.