The video also pans to include some shots of Newcastle, his childhood home. Accompanied by a music video, it starts with Knopfler speeding by on a motorcycle-a favorite pastime, despite a scary accident-interspersed with images from studio recordings, the shuffle of preparing for various live gigs, including Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Orpheum in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Palace in Albany, New York, replete with gratuitous images of Wegmans products stashed backstage.
The first single, “Good On You Son” was the first single off the new record. Knopfler is able to shift from the wealds of his youth into a smooth mixture of Rock and Country lifted from mid-twentieth century America he has described this crossroads as “where the Delta meets the Tyne.” Which leads us to present day with Down The Road Wherever. Obvious imagery aside, the album is another meandering journey from Knopfer, with musical escapades moving from the open range of the American West or Australian outback, to urban dance parties, to Honky-Tonk bars, all peppered with his trademark wit and languid vocal delivery.
Sophomore effort Sailing to Philadelphia followed in 2000, and from this point on, new work averaged between two and three years from that point on through his 2015 album, Tracker. Although, 1996’s Golden Heart was his first true solo work. The soundtrack work had started with Local Hero in 1983, soon spread to the 1987 timeless favorite The Princess Bride, and, in his spare time, he recorded Neck and Neck with Chet Atkins, released in 1990. A handful of live releases followed, after which Mark-his brother David having departed more than a decade earlier-shuttered the band to focus on a solo career. Several lineup changes and six acclaimed albums followed-from their 1978 self-titled debut, through the breakthrough 1985 album Brothers in Arms, and eventually culminating in 1991 with On Every Street. Now, all these years later, comes his ninth solo album, Down The Road Wherever, scheduled for release November 16th through vanity label British Grove Records (named after his London studio), with assistance from Universal/Virgin EMI.įor those whom do not remember, Dire Straits formed in 1970s Loughton, outside London, featuring Mark Knopfler’s brother David also on guitar, the brothers’ roommate John Illsley on bass guitar, and Pick Withers on drums. A talented singer-songwriter, while he quickly expanded his workload to include film soundtracks, he chose not to record a proper solo album until Dire Straits closed shop. Mark Knopfler first emerged as the vocalist/guitarist for the legendary British Rock-n-Roll band Dire Straits.
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