Album Title: 'Tracker' : Release: Begin 2015

[Vesper]

Mail from Paul Crockford:

Dear Klaas,

You will be receiving a note from Universal Records regarding your complaint.
Many apologies from our side for the issue.
Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue with you.
Thanks for your support of Mark.

Kind regards

PC

2 minutes later I got this:

Dear Klaas,

I work at Mark Knopfler

[LoveExpresso]

Today Guy gave an unexpected clear answer to the question about Ian Thomas' early drumming (as shown in the first diary entry). I would have been sure, same as the guy who asked, that this would have been Beryl. Now Guy said it is "River Towns". This song title is resonating in my mind since the first time I read it - it is so much an MK theme, that I am really looking forward to hear it, now with specific drums on it it is even more promising.
Newcastle, London - places where he lived - and I remember his nice warm words 2010, speaking of Hamburg as a "beautiful" city.. another river town..
All songs with a maybe "Geordie" theme in it are always phantastic work from MK.. so "River Towns", a song that needs drumming - looking forward to it!

LE

[superval99]

Today Guy gave an unexpected clear answer to the question about Ian Thomas' early drumming (as shown in the first diary entry). I would have been sure, same as the guy who asked, that this would have been Beryl. Now Guy said it is "River Towns". This song title is resonating in my mind since the first time I read it - it is so much an MK theme, that I am really looking forward to hear it, now with specific drums on it it is even more promising.
Newcastle, London - places where he lived - and I remember his nice warm words 2010, speaking of Hamburg as a "beautiful" city.. another river town..
All songs with a maybe "Geordie" theme in it are always phantastic work from MK.. so "River Towns", a song that needs drumming - looking forward to it!

LE

Not forgetting Glasgow, the city of his birth and Leeds too!   

[LoveExpresso]

Mail from Paul Crockford:

Dear Klaas,

You will be receiving a note from Universal Records regarding your complaint.
Many apologies from our side for the issue.
Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue with you.
Thanks for your support of Mark.

Kind regards

PC

2 minutes later I got this:

Dear Klaas,

I work at Mark Knopfler

[Pottel]

Today Guy gave an unexpected clear answer to the question about Ian Thomas' early drumming (as shown in the first diary entry). I would have been sure, same as the guy who asked, that this would have been Beryl. Now Guy said it is "River Towns". This song title is resonating in my mind since the first time I read it - it is so much an MK theme, that I am really looking forward to hear it, now with specific drums on it it is even more promising.
Newcastle, London - places where he lived - and I remember his nice warm words 2010, speaking of Hamburg as a "beautiful" city.. another river town..
All songs with a maybe "Geordie" theme in it are always phantastic work from MK.. so "River Towns", a song that needs drumming - looking forward to it!

LE

Not forgetting Glasgow, the city of his birth and Leeds too!   

and antwerp, DA river city.
anyways, ordered the deluxe box from amazon. do they have the ominous bonus song  i keep reading about??

[LoveExpresso]

There was a song name called "Hot Dog" on a pdf with unofficial stuff which turned out to be a list of almost all songs from tracker, apart from Hot Dog.
There is no official mentioning of it yet.
If amazon (or another online retailer or iTunes) use it, they will probably use for the mp3 download version. That was the case with Time In The Sun and Early Bird.

The Deluxe Edition is a single CD with 11 standard tracks plus 4 bonus tracks. 2 more bonus tracks apart from those 15 are in the Limited Box.

LE

[Pottel]

thnx bruv...

[goldenheart96]

Wow, I'm positively surprised! 

Mail from Paul Crockford:

Dear Klaas,

You will be receiving a note from Universal Records regarding your complaint.
Many apologies from our side for the issue.
Hopefully they will be able to resolve the issue with you.
Thanks for your support of Mark.

Kind regards

PC

2 minutes later I got this:

Dear Klaas,

I work at Mark Knopfler

[ds1984]

A reliable source is telling me that 'Terminal of Tribute To' is a great song

This would confirm what Guy said 2 days ago, that is 'his favourite'

Now I'd like to know why this song is basically out of the album and available only as an extra song

Is that the song somebody referred to on a link posted on Guy site? (but Guy, of course, did not publish...)?

[jerrymb]

A reliable source is telling me that 'Terminal of Tribute To' is a great song

This would confirm what Guy said 2 days ago, that is 'his favourite'

Now I'd like to know why this song is basically out of the album and available only as an extra song

Because often the artists themselves are very poor judges of what is a great song and what isn't.

[schmonka]

A reliable source is telling me that 'Terminal of Tribute To' is a great song

This would confirm what Guy said 2 days ago, that is 'his favourite'

Now I'd like to know why this song is basically out of the album and available only as an extra song

Because often the artists themselves are very poor judges of what is a great song and what isn't.

Look at Follow the Ribbon....perhaps one of the best songs from the last album...left off and only available as a bonus extra....who made THAT decision...!?

[OnlyMe]

Just as so many other fans, I think the whole bonus songs-scheme is very unfair.  They should just put every song on the CD and be done with it.  I'm not interested in LP's or the other promotional material, so I'm not paying the high price for the box-set, but I always feel cheated because of the extra songs I'm missing 

I think it's a poor marketing strategy, because we all know we'll eventually end up with getting the songs through other means anyway.

[dustyvalentino]

NYC another river town where MK has lived.

[Jules]

Could we use this thread to show in which shops the box is cheaper?

With Shipping Costs, the cheaper I

[Vesper]

http://www.bol.com/nl/p/tracker/9200000038731611/

Tracker now availible true bol.com in the netherlands but only the one without bonustracks at the moment.. I will wait a bit longer........

6 march release 

It changed to March 13. All 4 formats on it as well!
http://www.bol.com/nl/s/algemeen/zoekresultaten/Ntt/mark%2Bknopfler%2Btracker/N/0/Nty/1/search/true/searchType/qck/sc/media_all/index.html?_requestid=1348635