Another nifty bit of Ripple News for you waveriders. Long time Dire Straits leader, Mark Knopfler’s new album, Get Lucky is due for release on 9/15When they agreed the unwritten law that time-honored artists with brilliant track records get less creative as they go on, Mark Knopfler obviously wasn’t paying attention. He was too busy writing, recording, touring and enjoying it all.
Get Lucky, recorded at his award-winning British Grove Studios in west London and co-produced with longtime cohorts Chuck Ainlay and Guy Fletcher, is a beautifully crafted exploration of a lifetime of musical roots. Fluently combining folk and blues with his original songwriting, the whole containing personalized British ingredients and vivid observational lyricism.
If Get Lucky was a novel, it’d be another of Knopfler’s page-turners, full of characters who leap out of the lyrics, like the Glasgow lorry-driver of the opening track “Border Reiver,” or the fairground worker and fruit picker of the title song, or his heartfelt remembrance of the great ships in “So Far From The Clyde,” or real life tributes to a master guitar-maker in “Monteleone” and the lost uncle he never knew in “Piper To The End.”
Knopfler and the band are looking forward to hitting the road once again in 2010.
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