Mark Knopfler

Año de Publicación: 1984
Nacionalidad: Reino Unido
Discográfica: Warner Bros.
Producción: Mark Knopfler

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Lista de temas:

01 Still On Fire

02 Just Like The U.S.A.

03 Head Is Happy (Heart’s Insane)

04 Back Door To Heaven

05 All I Need Is Everything

06 Backwards And Forwards

07 The Birth Of  The True

08 Knife

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“All I Need Is Everything”

Popdose Report:

Click here to go to Popdose to check Van Halen “Take Me Back (Deja Vu)”, Mark Knopfler “Hard Shoulder”, Jethro Tull “Witches’ Promise”, Al Stewart “Rocks in The Ocean”, Quaterflash “Crusin’ With The Deuce”, plus more.

Two Paul McCartney performances from the 1986 Prince’s Trust Rock Galas have been released for the first time on iTunes Stores, and are now available for purchase and download.  These include live versions of “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Long Tall Sally.

Paul McCartney is backed by an “all-star” band featuring Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil  Collins, Mark Knopfler, Mark King, Bryan Adams, and others, making this one of the more memorable events in music history.

These new videos join with McCartney’s performance of Get Back , with Tina Turner, which was released on iTunes Stores last summer.

Dr. Jim went shopping the other day for some necessities for the trip to New Orleans, including a brand new laptop bag. Of course, I just happened to be passing by the record shop. I was assaulted, forced into the shop and made to buy half a dozen CDs. I did not do this intentionally, but fortunately I was forced to buy some music I like. My plan to save my money is still on track…

I haven’t heard them all yet since I’ve been busy, but I’m working on it.

Here is what I got:

B.B. King One Kind Favor

Click to go to BBK's site with further links to itunes, etc.

I don’t have much of B.B. King’s music but I’ve always like it. He seems like such a natural, easy-going guy, and he is a great musician. Here is a live version (after lots of friendly banter, of the tune that opens One Kind Favor, “See that my grave is kept clean”.

Mark Knopfler Get Lucky

One of my favourite guitar players of all time. I like Dire Straits, especially the first two albums (Brothers in Arms is very good, but I’ve heard the hits from it so many times I can’t bring myself to play it any more), and all of Knopfler’s solo albums I’ve heard have been excellent. There are a few I haven’t got yet. I lost my copy of the Notting Hill Billies Missing and Presumed Having a Good Time, and I can’t find a new copy anywhere.

The Best of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Millennium Collection).

All sorts of great stuff from way back, for only $7.00. Can’t go wrong! Love the old soul and Motown sound.

J.J.Cale Roll On

Follow the links to Amazon.com, itunes.

I first heard J. J. Cale’s Troubadour in high school and it is still on my top 10 albums. Grasshopper is pretty high on the list, too. I don’t think I have a third of his discography, but I’m working on the works. His recent album with Eric Clapton is highly recommended.

Norah Jones The Fall

This is not really a Slinky Jazz Babe album, it has a lot of a pop sound to it, but it is pretty good. I have four Norah Jones albums and I like them but I don’t listen to them as often as other singers. The album she did with a crew called the Little Willies is a great countryish time. She has a great, mellow voice and she doesn’t over-sing things.  The Fall sounds pretty good, and it was a good price too, considering there is an extra bonus 6 tune live CD called Live at the Living Room included in it. If you are into free, go to National Public Radio and listen to The Fall for free.

Click the pic to NPR and listen.

Madeleine Peyroux Bare Bones

http://www.madeleinepeyroux.org/discography/BareBones.asp

Madeleine Peyroux is one of the first Slinky Jazz Babes that Tommy Gun Annie recommended to me (she hasn’t let me down yet). This her fourth album and was released in March of this year. I now have the whole set. Peyroux also has some CD singles (which I never buy) and appears on some other compilations and what not. One of theme is a great collection in the Putumayo series. The new album is a very melodic mix of reflective, sensitive song with a lot of acoustic guitar, piano and simple arrangements.

Dang! Lets have some music!

Here is Madeleine Peroux with the tune that opens Bare Bones “Instead”.

Get Lucky is the title of Mark Knopfler’s sixth solo album. It was released on September 14, 2009 in Europe and September 15 in the US in three configurations. Knopfler has announced a tour through North America and Europe in 2010.

The title of the album first appeared in various online stores, before being announced on the official Mark Knopfler News website.

Track listing

1. “Border Reiver” – 4:35
2. “Hard Shoulder” – 4:33
3. “You Can’t Beat the House” – 3:25
4. “Before Gas and TV” – 5:50
5. “Monteleone” – 3:39
6. “Cleaning My Gun” – 4:43
7. “The Car Was the One” – 3:55
8. “Remembrance Day” – 5:05
9. “Get Lucky” – 4:33
10. “So Far from the Clyde” – 5:58
11. “Piper to the End” – 5:47
12. “Early Bird” – 5:36 (released through iTunes; not available on CD)

Kill To Get Crimson is the fifth solo album by Mark Knopfler, released 17 September 2007. The album cover image is taken from the painting “Four Lambrettas and Three Portraits of Janet Churchman” by John Bratby painted in 1958. The first singles from the album are “True Love Will Never Fade” (Europe) and “Punish The Monkey” (U.S., Canada). The album’s title comes from a line in the song “Let It All Go.”

The album debuted at number 26 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 23,000 copies in its first week.

The “Kill to Get Crimson tour”, promoting this album, kicked off in Amsterdam, Netherlands on March 29, 2008 and ended in Miami Beach, FL on July 31, 2008.

The album was released on: CD, CD and DVD set, double vinyl LP and deluxe set of 180g vinyl LP and CD.

Track listing
All songs are written by Mark Knopfler.

1. “True Love Will Never Fade” – 4:21
2. “The Scaffolder’s Wife” – 3:52
3. “The Fizzy and the Still” – 4:07
4. “Heart Full of Holes” – 6:36
5. “We Can Get Wild” – 4:17
6. “Secondary Waltz” – 3:43
7. “Punish the Monkey” – 4:36
8. “Let It All Go” – 5:17
9. “Behind With the Rent” – 4:46
10. “The Fish and the Bird” – 3:45
11. “Madame Geneva’s” – 3:59
12. “In the Sky” – 7:29

Mark Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.

Mark Knopfler is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977 with his brother David. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist under his own name. Occasionally, Knopfler has played in other groups, such as the The Notting Hillbillies; as well, he has guested on works by other artists, including The Dandy Warhols, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Eric Clapton, Jeff Healey, John Fogerty, Jools Holland, Steely Dan, Emmylou Harris, Sonny Landreth, Phil Lynott, Joan Armatrading and Chet Atkins. He has produced albums for artists such as Tina Turner, Willy DeVille, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan and even “Weird Al” Yankovic. In addition, he has scored the music to several films, including Metroland, Local Hero, Cal, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Wag the Dog, and Rob Reiner’s classic, The Princess Bride.

He is one of the most respected fingerstyle guitarists of the modern rock era. Knopfler was ranked #27 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million albums to date.

Chart Position: 7

• Lead vocals: Mark Knopfler
• Written by Mark Knopfler
• Produced by Mark Knopfler and Mark Dorfsman
• Percussion: Omar Hakim
• Later recorded by Grant and Forsyth (1993) and Shadows (1986)

Well it took me long enough to get to the point where I could realize how great this cat is.  Just like Sly Stone I was told by many reputable sources that Chet Atkins was a great player and just like Sly Stone I left it for another day.  Well let’s be honest here.  The Beatles LOVED him, Mark Knopfler loves him and he just so happens to have some great songs.

Take a listen and have a great week my friends.  ArmsUp News here tomorrow.

Peace,Love&GoodVibes
SnowDove,ArmsUp

p.s. kick it old school kids

Vor fünf Jahren taten sich am Rande von Leipzig – nämlich am Schkeuditzer Gymnasium – fünf Jungs zusammen, um Musik zu machen. Aus dieser Idee entstand eine von europaweit sehr wenigen Bands, die sich ausschließlich auf die legendären Rockklassiker der Dire Straits und Mark Knopfler spezialisierte. Vermutlich sind die Scuttles sogar die jüngste Dire-Straits-Tribute-Band der Welt – aber mit Sicherheit die Einzige in den neuen Bundesländern.

2009 war für die Scuttles ein besonderes und vor allem erfolgreiches Jahr: Sie spielten als Vorband der unvergessenen T-Rex beim 50. Plauener Spitzenfest und begeisterten auf dem Leipziger Markt im Rahmen der Classic Open nicht nur Impressario Peter Degner sondern auch das anwesende Publikum.

Der 5. Geburtstag der Leipziger Band wird am 14.11.2009 gefeiert. Wie bereits im vergangenen Jahr werden Songs wie „Sultans of Swing“, „Money for Nothing“ und „Brothers in Arms“ im großen Saal des Ankers in Leipzig-Möckern erklingen. Die Band hat sich weiterentwickelt – neben dem bekannten Repertoire großer Dire-Straits-Hits, wird eine Hand voll Songs zu erleben sein, die die Band von und um Mark Knopfler 1986 bei ihrem legendären Sydneykonzert spielten. Daneben wird Antonio Lucaciu für einen weiteren musikalischen Leckerbissen sorgen: Der begnadete und mit zahlreichen Jazzpreisen dekorierte Saxophonist wird die Scuttles bei einer Vielzahl von  Songs begleiten.

Einlass im Anker ist ab 20 Uhr und ab 20:30 Uhr leiten die Dirty Flowers einen unvergesslichen Musikabend mit Rockklassikern ein.

Samstag, 14.11.09 Anker Leipzig | Beginn: 20:30 Uhr | www.thescuttles.de

What happens when you mix Dire Straits and one of the most soulful country singers in recent history? You get this (the album is called All the Roadrunning and has a bunch of amazing tracks on it. This is merely one.):

Any Major Dude has noted that the search engine terms leading the masses to his blog often involve unrequited or impossible love.

Here? It’s a lot of folks searching for sleepwear.

The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, and John Denver (yes, John Denver) are some of the acts with fans wishing to express their allegiance even as they sleep.

(Paloma takes this, admittedly, small sample as a sign that we should fulfill this niche and become pajama moguls)

The search engine statistics also reveal that you folks have questions – a lot of questions. Well, I’m here to help, so here are a few of your queries with the actual search engine topic in parenthesis…

Is Food Network personality Alton Brown a one-hit wonder?
(alton brown one hit wonder)

Mr. Brown is a favorite of ours and quite an accomplished fellow with success as a chef, cinematographer, author, and actor to his credit. And, after graduating from the University Of Georgia, Brown pursued a career in cinematography and was the director of photography on the music video for R.E.M.’s The One I Love.

However, aside from his resemblance to actual one-hit wonder Thomas Dolby, it appears that Alton has never pursued any musical endeavors of his own. So, no, he is not a one-hit wonder.

However, the band Guadalcanal Diary, who were fellow Georgians and contemporaries of R.E.M., might qualify as one-hit wonders. Though they never were a mainstream act, Guadalcanal Diary had a modicum of success with college audiences in the mid- to late- ’80s and are best remembered for the quirky and engaging Watusi Rodeo.

Guadalcanal Diary – Watusi Rodeo
from Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man

Is Mark Knopfler obsessed with finding a cure for baldness?
(mark knopfler hair loss)

Yes, the former leader of Dire Straits is follically challenged. However, he is also one of the wealthiest musicians in the UK, so, if he wanted, he could afford to outfit himself with the most extravagant toupee in the history of man.

As he hasn’t done so, I would have to say that, no, Knopfler suffers from no vanity regarding his diminishing hairline. If he does wish to find the cure for hair loss, I suggest he get in contact as I could use an investor.

Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet
from Making Movies

Has Kate Bush ever attacked the paparazzi?
(kate bush attacks paparazzi)

I’ve followed Kate Bush’s career since she broke through in the States with Hounds Of Love and I own most of her catalog. I know that Kate’s father was a physician, she comes from a musical family, she’s studied dance, she’s quite reclusive, and she’s British.

None of these things add up to a profile of someone that would physically manhandle photographers. She simply seems too refined for such behavior (or, behaviour).

(though it is amusing to imagine her having a snootful of brandy following Sunday dinner and letting the expletives fly)

I think this reader has Kate confused with another eccentric female artist, this one from Iceland.

Kate Bush – Breathing
from Never For Ever

What kind of earrings did David Bowie wear?
(what kind of earring did david bowie wear)

There’s no debating that David Bowie has been one of the most fashion-conscious artist in the annals of rock. He’s donned dresses, leather jackets, Italian suits, and indescribable garb as Ziggy Stardust.

However, a quick study of photographic evidence reveals that his ears have usually been unadorned. In the few pictures in which he does have earrings, it appears that the Thin White Duke opts for a single, ring-sized, silver hoop – tasteful, classy, and restrained.

David Bowie – Soul Love
from The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

Fade to Black (Dire Straits Cover)

A song that sort of went unnoticed, but a great Mark Knopfler song that I had to cover. Not that I am a fan, or anything.

One of my favorite songs since the day I first heard it. Classic Mark Knopfler tones and licks.

http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/viewpoint/story.html?id=a9df25e1-060d-468e-9122-616f0e816e82

Defend the rights our soldiers died for -

Elizabeth James,

North Shore News

Published: Wednesday, November 04, 2009

The Torah teaches: ‘Justice, justice, you shall pursue’

Deuteronomy 16:20

Oy vey!

Why should North Shore readers get uptight about the tribulations of a 65-year-old Montreal taxi driver who is headed to court and to the Human Rights Commission, because he refuses to pay $1,400 in municipal fines?

Fair question, especially when we discover that he has ignored not one but six fines, the first of which dates back three years or more.

He has no-one to blame but himself, right?

We should care because, time and again, we have asked our soldiers to go to war to defend the Canadian and Quebec Charter rights of citizens to enjoy freedom of expression and of religion. Specific to this story, Canadian soldiers fought, and are still fighting and dying, to protect the rights of people like Arieh Perecowicz — a Canadian of the Jewish faith — should he wish to enjoy small mementoes of his family and faith in his workplace. Nothing in either charter — documents superior to those of bureaucratic bylaws — bans anyone from doing so.

The workplace Arieh speaks of just happens to be the taxi he drives around Montreal for 15 hours of the day.

It’s a case of common-sense justice.

To set the stage:

Arieh has been driving cab in Montreal since 1966; no troubles, no passenger complaints and, so far as I can discover, no tickets.

For most of those 43 years, he has carried with him two mezuzahs — tiny parchment prayers for a safe journey common to his faith. They are fixed to the frame between the front and back seats of the cab. He also carries photos of his wife and son, a blue and white Star of David, a Remembrance Day poppy and another tiny flag — the red and white Maple Leaf. These are the symbols of everything that makes Arieh the man he was, is, and wishes to be.

He treasures the symbol of Canada — a country that prides itself on being tolerant to all; a country that professes its belief in freedom of speech and religion and that, for one day every November, honours the veterans of past and present wars by wearing the poppy in its collective lapel.

How ironic, then, that this cabbie must go before a court and a tribunal to defend those rights all over again — in a province, no less, that has cost us dearly in its own constitutional struggles to be unique above all others in Canada.

This is because 30 years along Arieh’s travels, a municipal agency, the Bureau du Taxi, was established to administer the bylaws that cover licensing and safe operation of city taxicabs — and administer they did.

One of the city bylaws states: Every driver must ensure that the interior of the taxi is clean, remove papers and litter, empty ashtrays, and leave no object or inscription that is not required for the taxi to be in service or that is not provided for in this bylaw.

The loopholes for an officer’s subjective opinion are large enough to drive a bylaw van through; but this cabbie knew his taxi and his 43-year record were clean. He had been inspected on numerous occasions by both Transport Quebec officers and Bureau inspectors and passed with flying colours.

Arieh had no reason to worry about regulations until, in December 2006, the first of the tickets arrived — less than a week after he and several other drivers appeared on television to complain that the Bureau was failing to regulate unlicensed, out-of-city cab companies. Such a coincidence.

But who among us believes in the coincidences of government?

Why is it that, for example, drivers of Greek descent who display photos of the Virgin Mary, or others who hang rosary beads near their rear view mirror have received no tickets?

Arieh is in no position to hire a lawyer. So, after his court date has been set back six months to April 2010, Arieh must now defend himself against the power of Montreal bylaw officers, who have declared he has no right to be overt in the expression of his beliefs.

As Arieh explained in a weekend radio interview with CKNW host, Roy Green, “I am not especially religious; these tokens are just the stuff most of us have on our desks or pin to the cork-boards at work because they make our world a more pleasant place.

“None of my passengers has ever complained. Not about my driving; not about the condition or safety of my cab, and certainly not about my tokens.”

So to answer the question posed at the beginning of this story: Whether or not we are “especially religious,” for the sake of our country, and to honour the soldiers who defend it, we need to care; for inasmuch as it has been done unto Arieh Perecowicz, it has been done unto us all.

This column is in honour of all who have served, and are serving, in Canadian Forces around the world to defend the values we hold dear. It is also to offer condolences to the families of the 133 Canadian soldiers who have died in Afghanistan — most recently, Lt. Justin Garrett Boyes, 26 and Sapper Steven Marshall of Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, both of whom lost their lives to IEDs within days of their deployment in October.

Elizabeth James is a North Shore writer and editor.

http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/viewpoint/story.html?id=a9df25e1-060d-468e-9122-616f0e816e82&p=1

http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/

http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2009/11/veterans-week-2009-and-remembrance-day.html

Veterans Affairs Canada

www.vac-acc.gc.ca

www.forces.gc.ca

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/poster

National Defence and the Canadian Forces

http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/focus/nov11/video-eng.asp

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MojoTwanger.com: Why Worry? (Dire Straits cover)

In case you hadn’t noticed, I am a huge Mark Knopfler fan… so my goal is to cover each and every song he ever recorded

I used my Lentz T-style on this track.

I have been lucky to own some cool guitfiddles. Some I still own, some I don’t.

Since I take pics of all my guitars, I decided to make a quick video highlighting some of my favorite guitars.

The soundtrack is my take on Dire Straits’ “On every street”. the guitar used on that track was a Fender Telesonic, which I should never have sold…

Some of the guitars featured in this video include work from Collings, Grosh, Trussart, David Thomas McNaught, Anderson and Giffin.

Support our fine craftsmen and luthiers!

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Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.

Mark Knopfler is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977 with his brother David. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist under his own name. Occasionally, Knopfler has played in other groups, such as the The Notting Hillbillies; as well, Mark Knopfler has guested on works by other artists, including The Dandy Warhols, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Eric Clapton, Jeff Healey, John Fogerty, Jools Holland, Steely Dan, Emmylou Harris, Sonny Landreth, Phil Lynott, Joan Armatrading and Chet Atkins.

Mark Knopfler has produced albums for artists such as Tina Turner, Willy DeVille, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan and even “Weird Al” Yankovic. In addition, he has scored the music to several films, including Metroland, Local Hero, Cal, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Wag the Dog, and Rob Reiner’s classic, The Princess Bride.

Mark Knopfler is one of the most respected fingerstyle guitarists of the modern rock era. Knopfler was ranked #27 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million albums to date.

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Mark Knopfler Tickets are available at Sold Out Ticket Market

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