And also frequently about not finding it." All of these preoccupations get fused into songs – melodies, stories (always stories), settings, characters, dictions, breathtaking guitar virtuosity burning hot from within – which seem always to come round to being about seeking grace a real-time, minor key, on-the-ground grace. He has his subjects, as any writer luckily will – youth and aging (often his own), the working grind, the demi-monde, the louche, wandering life of the road, women and love, history, literature, The North of England, Geordie issues. Cohesion seems instinctual to him, both as a writer and a guitar player. "The Mark Knopfler songbook, since the Dire Straits years, is literally and pleasingly all over the map, and yet without any sense of an album being a miscellany – being merely the next thing Mark Knopfler comes up with. ![]() The box will include Get Lucky (2009), Privateering (2012), Tracker (2015), and his latest release, Down The Road Wherever (2018), plus a collection of studio b-sides and bonus tracks, and two previously unreleased songs. Mark Knopfler – The Studio Albums 2009-2018, a 9 LP vinyl/6 CD boxset & digital SD/HD, will be released on October 7 by UMe/EMI, gathering together the second half of his solo songbook with his more recent studio albums, to add to last year’s ’96 – 2007 collection.
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