New striking strokes

25 January 2024

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I guess MARK KNOPFLER doesn’t need an introduction. The now 74-year-old Scottish guitar hero wrote/recorded/released 6 LPs with Dire Straits between 1978 and 1991.

In 1996 he had his first solo album Golden Heart out.
He also released 9 soundtrack albums, so far.

Over the years he turned more to softer music, to folk, country and roots
vibes. His new, 10th album, titled ONE DEEP RIVER lands on April 12th.

Press info: “The record offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and influences in blues, folk, rock and beyond, and as usual, reveal their charms with unhurried grace and depth.”

First single AHEAD OF THE GAME is described as a wistful, perhaps autobiographical,
story about a singer/songwriter struggling to make it, set to a distinctively Knopfleresque classic riff.

It’s a smooth, melodic, country-flavored tune with his trademark sparkling guitar play.

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