In Conversation: Brandon Watkins of Year of the Knife
After a life-altering van accident that left his wife and bandmate recovering from severe brain trauma, Brandon Watkins is dead set on surviving together.
When the first reporting came out after Year of the Knife suffered a horrific van accident en route to Colorado Springs from Salt Lake City in June, the pictures of their vehicle—literally mangled underneath the truck of an 18-wheeler—told the story with more vivid detail than words ever could. It was no wonder that all four members of the band were hospitalized, but singer Madi Watkins suffered the worst of it, sustaining not only multiple fractures, but a traumatic brain injury that placed her in a medically-induced coma as well.
"Every time I see [the van], I think that we should have died,” said her husband and Year of the Knife guitarist, Brandon, at the time. “When I look at the pictures of that, it's just …