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Mark Knopfler - The Studio Albums 2009 - 2018(180g Vinyl 9LP Box Set)
180g Vinyl 9LP Box Set Gathers Second Half of Solo Songbook; Audio Overseen by Original Mastering Engineer Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering and Vinyl Cut by Bernie Grundman
Mark Knopfler's new 180g vinyl 9LP box set The Studio Albums 2009-2018 gathers together the second half of his solo songbook with more recent studio albums, to add to 2021's The Studio Albums 1996-2007 collection. The box includes 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 – "Back In The Day" and "Precious Voice From Heaven." The audio quality has been overseen by the original mastering engineer Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, while vinyl was cut by Bernie Grundman.
"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," notes Richard Ford. "Cohesion seems instinctual to him, both as a writer and a guitar player. 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. 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. And also frequently about not finding it."
The 9LP collection is housed in a rigid outer slipcase and includes five embossed art prints of each of the original covers.
Highlights
Track List
LP1 - Get Lucky
1. Border Reiver
2. Hard Shoulder
3. You Can’t Beat The House
4. Before Gas and TV
5. Monteleone
6. Cleaning My Gun
7. The Car Was The One
8. Remembrance Day
LP2 - Get Lucky
1. Get Lucky
2. So Far From The Clyde
3. Piper To The End
4. Early Bird
5. Time in the Sun
6. Pulling Down the Ride
7. Home Boy
8. Good as Gold
LP3 – Privateering
1. Redbud Tree
2. Haul Away
3. Don’t Forget Your Hat
4. Privateering
5. Miss You Blues
6. Corned Beef City
7. Go, Love
8. Hot Or What
9. Yon Two Crows
10. Seattle
LP4 – Privateering
1. Kingdom Of Gold
2. Got To Have Something
3. Radio City Serenade
4. I Used To Could
5. Gator Blood
6. Bluebird
7. Dream Of The Downed Submariner
8. Blood And Water
9. Today Is Okay
10. After The Beanstalk
LP5 – Tracker
1. Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes
2. Basil
3. River Towns
4. Skydiver
5. Mighty Man
6. Broken Bones
7. Long Cool Girl
LP6 - Tracker
1. Lights Of Taormina
2. Silver Eagle
3. Beryl
4. Wherever I Go
5. .38 Special
6. My Heart Has Never Changed
7. Terminal of Tribute To
8. Heart of Oak
9. Time Will End All Sorrow
10. Oklahoma Ponies
LP7 - Down The Road Wherever
1. Trapper Man
2. Back On The Dance Floor
3. Nobody's Child
4. Nobody Does That
5. Good On You Son
6. Floating Away (Side B)
7. One Song At A Time (Side B)
8. Heavy Up
LP8 - Down The Road Wherever
1. Slow Learner
2. Just A Boy Away From Home
3. My Bacon Roll
4. When You Leave
5. Matchstick Man
6. Drover’s Road
7. Every Heart In The Room
8. Don't Suck Me In
9. Sky and Water
LP9 - Back In The Day -The Bonus Tracks (2009-2018)
1. Occupation Blues
2. River of Grog
3. Follow the Ribbon
4. Your Perfect Song
5. Precious Voice From Heaven (Previously unreleased)
6. Back In The Day (Previously unreleased)
7. Rear View Mirror
8. Pale Imitation
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