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Real Live Roadrunning - CD/DVD
Released: Oct 24, 2006
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All the Road Running
Released: Apr 25, 2006
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This lush and earthy collaboration between {$Mark Knopfler} and {$Emmylou Harris} may sound like it rose from an amiable weeklong studio session, but the 12 tracks that make up {^All the Road... Continue[+]

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One Take Radio Sessions
Released: Jun 21, 2005
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Trawler's Song - EP
Released: Apr 26, 2005
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Boom Like That
Released: Jan 4, 2005
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Sailing to Philadelphia - CD & DVA
Released: Dec 7, 2004
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{$Mark Knopfler}'s second solo album might as well be called {$Dire Straits}' eighth studio album, though {$Knopfler} abandoned the group name with 1996's {^Golden Heart}, dispensing with hefty... Continue[+]

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{$Mark Knopfler}'s second solo album might as well be called {$Dire Straits}' eighth studio album, though {$Knopfler} abandoned the group name with 1996's {^Golden Heart}, dispensing with hefty sales in the process. (All six of {$Dire Straits}' studio albums at least went gold and reached the Top 20 in the U.S., while {^Golden Heart} didn't even make the top 100.) He may be happier now; from the lead-off track of {$Dire Straits}' first album, {&"Sultans of Swing,"} he was celebrating small-time lives, and his biggest hit, {&"Money for Nothing,"} was a workingman's dismissal of a rock star. There was never much doubt that the fame and lifestyle coincident with platinum sales made him uncomfortable, and discontinuing the "{$Dire Straits}" billing was a means of walking away from all that. It also allowed him to indulge his love for various musical genres more, and that process continues on {^Sailing to Philadelphia}. True, {$Knopfler}'s basic approach remains the same; as a guitarist, he is still enamored of the minor-key fingerpicking style of {$J.J. Cale}, and as a singer/songwriter, he remains enthralled with {$Bob Dylan}. But in one song after another on this album, you get the feeling that he started out playing some familiar song in a specific genre and eventually extrapolated upon it enough to call it an original. {&"Who's Your Baby Now"} seems drawn from the repertoire of {$the Everly Brothers} as filtered through {$the Beatles} of the {^Rubber Soul} period; {&"Do America"} could have begun life as a simple {$Bo Diddley} riff; {&"Speedway at Nazareth"} recalls the Appalachian style of {$the Carter Family}; and {&"Junkie Doll"} calls to mind {$Howlin' Wolf}, especially {&"Sitting on Top of the World."} (Lead-off track {&"What It Is,"} meanwhile, sounds like nothing so much as a classic {$Dire Straits} song on the order of {&"Sultans of Swing."}) {$Knopfler} has grafted his own lyrical concerns to these songs, employing recurring references to life on the road (or on the sea or in the air, as the case may be) -- {&"Sailing to Philadelphia,"} {&"Baloney Again,"} {&"Do America,"} {&"Wanderlust"} -- playing up the lives of humbled people, especially musicians ({&"Baloney Again"} is about a traveling gospel group, circa 1953) and putting down powerful people, especially rock stars ({&"Do America"} is about a British rocker on his way across the Atlantic, while {&"El Macho"} mocks a star alone in a bar). There are also story songs on such wide-ranging subjects as the mapmakers {%Mason} and {%Dixon} ({&"Sailing to Philadelphia"}), racecar driving ({&"Speedway at Nazareth"}), an arranged marriage in the Old West ({&"Prairie Wedding"}), and opposition to the building of London's {~Millennium Dome} ({&"Silvertown Blues"}), but the themes of travel and the dichotomy between the rich and famous (what {$Knopfler} is) and the poor and powerless (those he identifies with) predominate. Working with a two-guitars, two-keyboards, bass, and drums band (the old {$Dire Straits} lineup), {$Knopfler} brings in a variety of sympathetic guests, notably {$James Taylor}, who plays {%Mason} to {$Knopfler}'s {%Dixon} in {&"Sailing to Philadelphia,"} {$Van Morrison}, and {$Squeeze} leaders {$Glenn Tilbrook} and {$Chris Difford}. These guest stars provide pleasant contrast to {$Knopfler}'s modest vocal talents, but they never steal the spotlight from the leader. (Well, okay, {$Morrison} does.) His ability to hold his own is some indication that, however self-effacing he may be, he remains a star. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Shangri-La - CD & DVA
Released: Dec 7, 2004
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{^Shangri-La}, {$Mark Knopfler}'s fourth solo release and his first since breaking his collarbone, shoulder, and seven ribs in a motorcycle crash in March 2003, finds the eternally laid-back {$Dire... Continue[+]

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{^Shangri-La}, {$Mark Knopfler}'s fourth solo release and his first since breaking his collarbone, shoulder, and seven ribs in a motorcycle crash in March 2003, finds the eternally laid-back {$Dire Straits} frontman in familiar territory. Instead of constructing a song cycle about his brush with mortality -- the wry {&"Don't Crash the Ambulance"} aside -- he uses his warm baritone and effortless guitar work to ruminate on everything from the plight of the modern fisherman -- the beautiful and rustic {&"Trawlerman's Song"} -- to the entrepreneurial skills of McDonald's founder {%Ray Kroc} ({&"Boom, Like That"}). {$Knopfler} has more or less abandoned the {\British folk} and {\Celtic}-influenced {\pop} that began to surface on his previous two recordings, opting instead for a full-blown yet quiet and considerate collection of {\country-folk} {\ballads} and bluesy, midtempo dirges that revel in their uncharacteristic sparseness -- one of the better examples of the latter is the gutsy, backwoods boxing tale {&"Song for Sonny Liston."} {$Knopfler} spent seven months away from the guitar in physiotherapy, but his melancholic slow-burn tone is as peat-smoked as ever, and his penchant for wrapping {\Americana}-gothic {\folk} around subjects that are uniquely English -- colliers, cockneys, the one-armed bandit man who meets his maker in the atmospheric opener, {&"5:15 A.M."} -- is evident throughout. Dynamically, {^Shangri-La} loses steam about three-quarters of the way through -- the cringe-inducing {&"Whoop De Doo"} and the sweet but dull {&"All That Matters"} bring things to a sleepy halt -- but {$Knopfler} fans and lovers of {$Chet Atkins}, {$Gordon Lightfoot}, and {$J.J. Cale}, as well as late-night poker players and early risers with an acerbic streak, will find much to love here. [A version of {^Shangri-La} containing a bonus DVD/DVA is also available.] ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

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Boom Like That, Pt. 1
Released: Nov 30, 2004
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Boom Like That, Pt. 2
Released: Nov 30, 2004
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Shangri-La - BONUS DVD
Released: Sep 28, 2004
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{^Shangri-La}, {$Mark Knopfler}'s fourth solo release and his first since breaking his collarbone, shoulder, and seven ribs in a motorcycle crash in March 2003, finds the eternally laid-back {$Dire... Continue[+]

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{^Shangri-La}, {$Mark Knopfler}'s fourth solo release and his first since breaking his collarbone, shoulder, and seven ribs in a motorcycle crash in March 2003, finds the eternally laid-back {$Dire Straits} frontman in familiar territory. Instead of constructing a song cycle about his brush with mortality -- the wry {&"Don't Crash the Ambulance"} aside -- he uses his warm baritone and effortless guitar work to ruminate on everything from the plight of the modern fisherman -- the beautiful and rustic {&"Trawlerman's Song"} -- to the entrepreneurial skills of McDonald's founder {%Ray Kroc} ({&"Boom, Like That"}). {$Knopfler} has more or less abandoned the {\British folk} and {\Celtic}-influenced {\pop} that began to surface on his previous two recordings, opting instead for a full-blown yet quiet and considerate collection of {\country-folk} {\ballads} and bluesy, midtempo dirges that revel in their uncharacteristic sparseness -- one of the better examples of the latter is the gutsy, backwoods boxing tale {&"Song for Sonny Liston."} {$Knopfler} spent seven months away from the guitar in physiotherapy, but his melancholic slow-burn tone is as peat-smoked as ever, and his penchant for wrapping {\Americana}-gothic {\folk} around subjects that are uniquely English -- colliers, cockneys, the one-armed bandit man who meets his maker in the atmospheric opener, {&"5:15 A.M."} -- is evident throughout. Dynamically, {^Shangri-La} loses steam about three-quarters of the way through -- the cringe-inducing {&"Whoop De Doo"} and the sweet but dull {&"All That Matters"} bring things to a sleepy halt -- but {$Knopfler} fans and lovers of {$Chet Atkins}, {$Gordon Lightfoot}, and {$J.J. Cale}, as well as late-night poker players and early risers with an acerbic streak, will find much to love here. [A version of {^Shangri-La} containing a bonus DVD is also available.] ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

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