Rock / Groove themes?

[Fletch]

As a newbie to Marks solo work, i`ve been LOVING the tracks "Summer Of Love" & "Secondary Waltz" - What a groove!!!!!

Loving is an understatement - i mean that stuff is Gold!!!!!


How much of his solo albums are in a similar vein? i.e. old school rock / JJ Cale shuffle / country rock - i guess i`m not into the whole irish, celtic thing and my preconception is a lot of Marks solo songs are like that, am i wrong?

[Tally]

I take it you are referring to the Secondary Waltz demo, which I like too. They should have developed that one.

For some solo work with groove, check out Boom, Like That from Shangri-La, Don't You Get It from Golden Heart, Coyote from Ragpicker's Dream, Right Now from Roadrunning and Junkie Doll from STP. There's not much of it anymore, but some.

[Jules]

GOLDEN HEART

A mixture between old DS rock style, lot of country style, some celtic songs and american cajun style

SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA

Minimum DS old rock style, and maximum of american sound, more close to folk and country-flavoured

THE RAGPICKERS DREAM

Lots of american folk style songs, with a mixture of british folk

SHANGRI-LA

That sounds very very american, not folk like previously, but it

[Pottel]

camerado
do america
if i had you
tall order....
seems like it is all the b-sides that have the groove...
love each and every one of these...

[dustyvalentino]

You Don't Know You're Born has "the groove" too I would say.

But just go and buy the freakin' albums already! You're hanging out at the Mark Knopfler forum! Go buy his records!

[Pottel]

yes, go buy all fletch
you are now morally obliged :-)

[Fletch]

camerado
do america
if i had you
tall order....
seems like it is all the b-sides that have the groove...
love each and every one of these...

Yeah!!!!! I love these too! "Small Potatoes, strictly nickel and dime..." Love it, and only b-sides! How cool is Badges/T-Shirts as well? I can just imagine all that stuff being said to Mark in the 70s! I`d never heard that track before.

You`re right, i am morally obliged, i got some good free stuff. I`ll check out the songs Tallgren and Dusty mention, and thanks for the album descriptions too, JBaent!
Itunes store here i come....

[Fletch]

I should mention, my entire solo collection before this forum consisted of,

Local Hero CD,

Cannibals, Boom Like That, Why Aye Man, What It Is, Your Own Sweet Way - from itunes!

I said i was a newbie! Thank god for B-sides!

[Fletch]

I purchased a few songs,

You Don`t Know You`re Born, how about that Hank Marvin style solo at the end, oh baby baby baby, yeah! 

I want to thank you guys for your recommendations, i know i`d be a tad disappointed with the whole albums because i`ve seen a few MK performances such as True Love Will Never Fade and its just not my cup of tea. So, thank you.

[Love Expresso]

!!

You should nevertheless buy some records - MK is an album artist: Every album will grow on you for sure during several listenings...
But I guess this could be a generation issue 

Have fun!

LovExpresso

[Pottel]

well then simply start with sailing to philadelphia, nothing weak on that one.

[dustyvalentino]

well then simply start with sailing to philadelphia, nothing weak on that one.

I actually think that Silvertown Blues is the weak link on STP.

But nobody else in the world agrees with me. 

[Tally]

It is really, really annoying that much of the best solo stuff never ended up on the albums.

Gravy Train, Long Highway, Summer of Love... Makes you wonder how much good stuff there is from the DS period.

Anyway, STP would my pick for best MK solo work too. It's superb. After that, maybe Ragpicker. 

[Pottel]

fuck, yeah, ragpicker, listening to old pigweed yesterday and it reminded me of the man's sheer genius. why does he never play that song? hope he does it on this next tour.

[IrisRose]

Hmm, I was listening to Ragpicker's Dream on the way home yesterday.   Old Pigweed is genius allright.   Marbletown--after the tour, I really miss that McCusker/Worf/Knopfler jam.  Pure WOW.  Ragpicker's Dream made it onto the 2009 tour in a big way, but, yes, I'd love to hear Old Pigweed in concert.    And. . . Daddy's Gone to Knoxville.  I don't know why it didn't stay in the setlist; it seemed to me a great song for performance.    So which songs from Kill to Get Crimson might make it to the Get Lucky tour?