Two Pair Of Hands

Happy 75 To Legendary DIRE STRAITS Maestro And Guitar Wizard MARK KNOPFLER

Posted on by JL

12 August 2024

Happy 75 to MARK KNOPFLER. The Dire Straits legend and
guitar wizard, was born on 12 August 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland.

With DS Knopfler recorded/released 6 LPs between 1978 and 1991. All here.
With a total of almost 120 million sold copies of their longplayers, they are
one of best-selling music artists of all time.

Even if you never heard any of those albums there’s a very great possibly that you
know the group’s 1978 blockbuster hit Sultans Of Swing, that has at this very moment
more than 1 billion streams on Spotify and more than 380 millions view on YT.

As a solo artist he has 10 albums on his résumé with this year’s highly entertaining
LP One Deep River as the most recent one. Two Pairs of Hands is one of the 3 singles
on that new record.

He is one of those no-retirement-for-me musicians (Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, John Cale, Paul McCartney, and more) who will create music until their last breath. One of those artists who have music in their DNA. It’s in their soul, in their heart, it’s their life.

Over the years Knopfler, just like his dear friend Bob Dylan, started to look back and embrace the roots of music, giving it their personal twist, and let us all enjoy along.
Happy B!

ONE DEEP RIVER


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Knopfler: Story

MARK KNOPFLER – Imperishable Songmaster Sparkles Again On New Piece ‘TWO PAIR OF HANDS’ From His Forthcoming LP

Posted on by JL

New striking strokes

27 March 2024


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74-year-old guitar hero/songwriter MARK KNOPFLER is one of those
70s genial musicians who will record/release new songs until their
last breath.

The former sultan of swing isn’t a man who is interested in acting like
a celebrity/rock star. All that matters is his musical muse. With Dire Straits
he sold millions of albums between 1978 and 1991.

Over the years Knopfler, just like his dear friend Bob Dylan, started to look back,
to all things roots, blues, folk, and country, gave it their personal twist, and let
us all enjoy along. His new, 10th album, baptized ONE DEEP RIVER will see the
day of light on April 12th.

Press info: “One Deep River 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.”

Following first single Watch Me Gone and follow up Ahead Of The Game we get a third taster from the upcoming longplayer. TWO PAIRS OF HANDS is another feel-good, easy-going tune with Knopfler‘s ever soothing voice shining in the middle, for the evening hours, after another rat race day.

“We got the roller coaster piling along
The power and the glory with the song
Holy moly, where did the time go?
I told you, baby, now you know

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m keeping the balls in the air
When I’m up here on the band
There’ll be a little bit here and there
Still be trying to understand

[Chorus]
But they’ll all be in the air
When I’m up here on the band
What it is, I’m juggling here
I’ve only got two pairs of hands

[Verse 2]
There’s a pin-drop, they follow a thread
And a lonе voice cries out overhеad
When the thunder bursts in the velvet night
There’s joy and wonder and delight

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m keeping the balls in the air
Tryna keep up with the band
There’ll be a little bit here and there
I might get covered by the drifting sand

[Chorus]
But they’ll all be in the air
When I’m up here on the band
What it is, I’m juggling here
I’ve only got two pairs of hands

[Verse 3]
They’re back in the streets and into the bars
The trams and the trains and back in their cars
Holy moly, where did the time go?
I told you, baby, now you know

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m keeping the balls in the air
Tryna keep up with the band
There’ll be a little bit here and there
Might get covered by the drifting sand

[Chorus]
But they’ll all be in the air
When I’m up here on the band
What it is, I’m juggling here
I’ve only got two pairs of hands

All 3 singles


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