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Led by former music journalist/college professor Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits emerged with their melancholy self-titled debut amidst the clatter of punk and gloss of disco. With a laid-back, raspy style of singing and distinctive finger-picking style of guitar playing, Knopfler came across as a fusion of J.J. Cale, Bob Dylan, and Chet Atkins. Coming out of the pub-rock scene, this tight English quartet cracked both sides of the Atlantic with the insanely catchy "Sultans Of Swing." The group further enhanced their reputation with the ominously atmospheric opener "Down to the Waterline." Knopfler's finger-picking style gave his guitar a smooth, distinct tone that was a jazz-country hybrid ("Setting Me Up"), while utilizing fancy country plucking "Southbound Again."
Dire Straits' minimalistic interpretation of pub-rock had already crystallized by the time they released this album. Driven by Knopfler's spare, tasteful guitar lines and husky warbling, the album is a set of bluesy rockers. And while the bar-band mentality of pub-rock is at the core of Dire Straits--even the aforementioned breakthrough single offers a lament for a neglected pub-rock band--their music is already beyond the simple boogies and shuffles of their forefathers. Knopfler also shows an inclination toward Dylanesque imagery that enhances the smoky, low-key atmosphere of the album.
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Recorded at Basing St. Studios, London, England in February, 1978.
Composer: Mark Knopfler.
Personnel: David Knopfler, Mark Knopfler (vocals, guitar); John Illsley (vocals); Pick Withers (drums).
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Recording information: Basing St. Studios, London, England (02/1978); Basing Street Studios, London, England (02/1978).
Dire Straits: Mark Knopfler (vocals, guitar); David Knopfler (guitar, background vocals); John Illsley (bass); Pick Withers (drums).
Q (7/96, p.141) - 3 Stars - Good - "...swam doggedly against the tide of punk, eventually convincing audiences with its direct pop and Knopfler's thrilling guitar..." Dire Straits Music Review Purchase Dire Straits CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Dire Straits Communique CD (1979) Remastered
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Rushed out less than nine months after the surprise success of Dire Straits' self-titled debut album, the group's sophomore effort, Communiqué, continues in the same vein. Mark Knopfler and co. had established a sound (derived largely from J.J. Cale) of laid-back shuffles and intricate, bluesy guitar playing, and Communiqué provides more examples of it. "Lady Writer" (a lesser singles chart entry on both sides of the Atlantic) nearly duplicated the sound of "Sultans of Swing," even if . Communiqué sold immediately to Dire Straits' established audience, but no more, and it did not fare as well critically as its predecessor ...
| | Dire Straits Making Movies CD (1980) Remastered
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The last album of their career that sounded as if they were trying to play, instead of going through the motions. David Knopfler had already departed from the band and brother Mark had a free rein, clear from any sibling rivalry. "Solid Rock," "Tunnel Of Love," "Romeo And ...
| | Dire Straits Love Over Gold CD (1982) Remastered
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Despite the fact that LOVE OVER GOLD contains only five songs, the powerful effect of these selections makes this Dire Straits' most underrated record. Building on the ambitious arrangements and more sophisticated story-songs that made up the prior MAKING MOVIES, Mark Knopfler audaciously composed "Telegraph Road," a near-15-minute cut that traces society's technological evolution. Although this kind of subject matter might sound ostensibly dry, Knopfler's crisp playing and warm raspy voice, combined with Alan Clark's gorgeous keyboard runs, makes for a sweeping experience.
Elsewhere, Knopfler uses the satirical romp "Industrial Disease" to turn a lesson on international economics and bureaucratic red tape into an infectious shuffle. Rounding ...
| | Dire Straits Brothers In Arms CD (1985) Remastered
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BROTHERS IN ARMS found Dire Straits at the peak of a long climb in the music industry. After an auspicious debut with DIRE STRAITS, they stuggled on through personnel changes and shifting musical tastes. Knopfler's work with Bob Dylan (SLOW TRAIN COMING and some touring) and the band's appearance at Live Aid helped to keep their recognition ...
| | Dire Straits On Every Street CD (1991) Remastered
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In the six-year hiatus between BROTHERS IN ARMS and ON EVERY STREET, Mark Knopfler immersed himself in soundtrack work and occasional collaborations with other artists. Knopfler was always hugely influenced by country music, and his passion for this genre was predictably inflamed by winning a pair of 1990 Grammys for his work with Chet Atkins on NECK & NECK. This led to the Scottish guitarist reuniting Dire Straits for what would be the group's final studio album.
With his trademark twangy guitar in tow, Knopfler indulges his love of the American South with odes to Memphis (the chugging "Calling Elvis") and Louisiana (a moody "Planet Of New Orleans"). Throughout STREET, Dire Straits does an impressive job trying on various styles, including infectious rockabilly ("The Bug"), lush countrypolitan ("Ticket To Heaven"), and Appalachian-flavored folk ("Iron Hand"). Elsewhere, Knopfler does his best Dylan vocal on the film-noir blues of "Fade To Black" and has fun playing a boor obsessed with material possessions (the lite-jazz-flavored "My Parties").
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| | Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here CD (1975) Remastered
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The breakthrough success of DARK SIDE OF THE MOON made WISH YOU WERE HERE a crucial follow-up in strictly commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only provided Roger Waters with more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities.
The mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome to the Machine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money than creative music-making. "Have a Cigar" further establishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett.
The 20-minute-plus "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and "Echoes." But rather than just another Floydian soundscape, its lyrics make it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for his subsequent breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open the album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did on DARK SIDE. The final four sections, which close the album, form a reprise that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour's guitar screaming and crying. The band then settles into a laid-back jam that ends with Richard Wright's billowing ...
| | Stooges Double Danger: Latin Casino/Academy Of Music, Live 1973 CDs (2000)
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The Stooges occupy a curious niche in rock history, because few decent live recordings have survived to capture the visceral wallop that ignited countless 1970s-era punk bands -- in an era when live taping was an often cumbersome, clumsy exercise. Issued as part of Bomp's Iguana Chronicles series of unreleased live and studio material, Double Danger seeks to impose a sense of coherence on the oft-copied, multiple-generation Stooges concert tapes, which have gone mostly unheard outside collectors' circles. The results are as perversely hit-and-miss as the band itself. Latin Casino is a highly-combustible November 1973 show from Balltimore that is bedeviled by 65 minutes of rickety sound, yet rightly regarded as a crown jewel. Lead guitarist James Williamson flails with trademark abandon on lightning raids of "Search & Destroy," and "Raw Power," while Ron Asheton's insistent, overdriven bass, and younger brother Scott's scrappy drums, never stop pushing the beat. Latin Casino reveals a fiery outfit sharpened by relentless gigging, even if some songs end on their own sprawling, leisurely terms -- such as the nearly nine-minute "Rich Bitch," where vocalist Iggy Pop rambles about what he detests in well-off girlfriends (who often served as his only lifeline between record deals). Just when matters nearly fall apart, however, the band rises to the occasion, whether through Williamson's quicksilver high-end leads, or keyboardist Scott Thurston's ragtag splashes of barroom-style piano on unheard classics like "Heavy Liquid." Taped in New York only one month later, on New Year's Eve 1973, the only similarity between Academy Of Music and Latin Casino lies in the setlists; otherwise, the second half of this affair only merits attention from Stooges completists. While the band is seasoned as ever, Pop's utter lack of vocal coherence trashes standards like "Search & Destroy," leaving both sides sounding utterly distanced from each other. Against such odds, the 45-minute gig still ends on a high note with a thunderous ...
| | Kent Vapen & Ammunition CD (2002)
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| | Audra McDonald Happy Songs CD (2002)
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Audra McDonald's third album may be called Happy Songs, but the cover -- on which she is depicted in sepia tone, inserted into a photograph from the 1940s, dolled up in period getup, and looking like she's waiting for a train -- suggests that the title is intended ironically, a suggestion further documented by a perusal of the songs on the back cover, which include Irving Berlin's anti-lynching ballad "Supper Time" and Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's "Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)." The former song is associated with Ethel Waters and the latter with Aida Ward, while the leadoff track, "Ain't It de Truth?," was introduced by Lena Horne, and "I Must Have That Man!" was first sung by Adelaide Hall, all predecessors of McDonald as a black female musical theater star. By singing their songs, she embraces that heritage, and by singing so well, she demonstrates that she is their equal. But she also addresses the work of white female stars like Dinah Shore, who introduced "Tess' Torch Song," and Judy Garland, whose arrangement of Rodgers & Hart's "I Wish I Were in Love Again" is updated here, and she holds her own with them, too. Happy Songs is an affectionate look back at a more extravagant era of entertainment when women's emotions (as written for them by men) were expressed powerfully, and these songs explore the range of those feelings. The choices are sometimes daring, such as the wonderful, but long-forgotten Freddy Martin hit "I Double Dare You" from 1937, which McDonald handles with frenetic energy, and, stepping out of the long-ago past into the recent days of nightclub novelty, Jay Leonhart's song of comic romantic complaint, "Beat My Dog." Such numbers demonstrate that these can be "happy songs," even when the sentiments are less so. ~ William Ruhlmann
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Recorded at The Hit Factory, Sound On Sound Studios, New York, New York between August 2001 & May 2002.
Personnel: David Engel, Steve Freeman, Leo Daignault (vocals); Kevin Kuhn (guitar, banjo); Grace Paradise (harp); Laura Oatts, Xin Zhao, Cecilia Hobbs, Suzanne Ornstein, Belinda Whitney (violin); Debra Shufelt, Michael Nicholas (viola); Adam Grabois, Clay Ruede (cello); Paul Sundfor (flute, piccolo, clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Richard Heckman (flute, clarinet, oboe, English horn, tenor saxophone); Lawrence Feldman (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone); Mark Thrasher (clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, baritone saxophone); Walt Weiskopf (clarinet); Brian O'Flaherty, Larry Lunetta (trumpet); Chris Komer (French horn); Michael Boschen, Jack Schatz, Mark Patterson (trombone); Ted Sperling, Lee Musiker (piano, celesta); Dave Ratajczak, Willie Hayes (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Tom Lazarus.
Recording information: Sound on Sound Studios, New York, NY (08/2001-05/2002); The Hit Factory, New York, NY (08/2001-05/2002).
Editor: Jan Folkson.
Photographers: Pamela Springsteen; John Vachon.
Translator: John Ryle.
Arrangers: Ted Sperling; Eadie Griffith; Rack Godwin; Kevin Kuhn; Lee Musiker; Peter ...
| | Hawkwind Space Ritual Sundown, Vol. 2 CD (1985) Deluxe Edition
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Nik Turner (flute, saxophone, background vocals); Del Dettmar (synthesizer); Lemmy (bass, background vocals); Simon King (drums); Dik Mik (tapes).
Recorded live at Brixton Sundown, London, England on December 30, 1972. Includes liner notes by Dave Thompson.
The original version of SPACE RITUAL is the definitive live document of U.K. space-rock heroes Hawkwind. VOL. 2 features tracks drawn from the same 1972 performances, but they're presented here in their original, unedited form. (Apparently the first volume involved a fair amount of post-production). The swirling electronics, space-cadet lyrics, and psychedelic guitars that made the band famous can be heard at their finest here. Motorhead fans, take note: this is where it all started for Lemmy, whose bass and vocals add plenty of drive to the proceedings.
Hawkwind were still reeling from the shock of a monster hit single, "Silver Machine," when they set out on their late 1972 Space Ritual tour, a 26-date outing that crisscrossed Britain from early November until the end of the year. Vastly ambitious, incredibly choreographed, and brain-charringly loud, the concept had been on the band's mind for over a year already -- "we're getting a space odyssey together which will be a completely environmental situation," Dave Brock remarked in late 1971, while bandmate Nik Turner later reflected, "it was a very grandiose thing. Big stage sets, a lot of equipment, big trucks, very high overheads. But everybody was into it, so it was a very communal thing." Several shows on the tour were recorded, with highlights of two, in Liverpool and Brixton, remixed and released as Space Ritual -- in both legend and fact are the ultimate Hawkwind live albums. Four sides of vinyl documented a journey into deepest time and space, via behemoth re-creations of some of the band's greatest ever material -- definitive renderings of "Brainstorm," "Master of the Universe," "Sonic Attack," "Seven by Seven" and "Born to Go" await within and, when ads for the album called it "88 minutes of brain damage," they weren't kidding. Of course the record had its faults -- the sonic limitations of the vinyl medium excised chunks of two songs, as well as the mesmeric encore of "You Shouldn't Do That," "Seeing It as You Really Are" and "Silver Machine." Absent, too, was a sense of the sheer dynamism of the show, the band totally sublimated by the lights -- squad car strobes, blistered neon, colors the audiences had never before imagined; the slide show -- stark planets, bleak landscapes, harsh metallic objects passing through the icy void; the stage set -- enormous speakers built into cardboard tubes, brought to life by Barney Bubbles' luminous designs. But still Space Ritual was a triumph; unearthly, unequivocal, unerring, a solid roar into which the individual instruments simply blended until guitar was indistinguishable from saxophone, flute from bass, rocket roar from engine throb, through whi
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Hawkwind: Bob Calvert (vocals); Dave Brock (guitar, background vocals);
Producer: Hawkwind.
Compilation producers: Dave Brock, Dave Anderson.
Hawkwind: Lemmy Kilmister (vocals, bass guitar); Robert Calvert ...
| | Steps Ahead Holding Together CDs (2005)
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| | Happy Mondays Platinum Collection/Dirty Old Town: Platinum Collection CD (1988) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | M C A T Feat Manabu Oshio Beastie Life (2007) (Import)
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| | Lord Be Glorified The Worship Songs Of Bob Kilpatrick CD (2008)
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Bob Kilpatrick is a busy man! He continues his national radio program on the K-Love radio network, speaks at national conferences, produces recordings with artists like Phil Keaggy and Randy Stonehill, and is writing his first book. But just as fulfilling has been the return to his preaching roots. "I'm laying my guitar down and speaking! And I'm loving it," says Bob. He is, after all, an ordained minister. Still, most people were introduced to the ministry of Bob Kilpatrick through his worship songs. At least two of Bob Kilpatrick's songs are consistently listed in the "Clas¬sic" worship song category- "Lord Be Glorified" and "Here Am I (Send Me To The Nations)". Though these songs keep popping up on the "Greatest Hits" lists, there are many other tunes for which Bob is known- "Won By One," "Sold Out And Radical" and "I Will Not Be Ashamed" among them. His song "Bring Them Home" was sung at Mother Teresa's funeral service in Calcutta, India (Hillary Clinton mentioned to the singer how touched she was by the song!) Bob has been in full time ministry since 1970. Over the years he has co-labored with a veritable ministry "Who's Who", including Dr. Jack Hayford, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, Corrie ten Boom, Michael W. Smith, dcTalk, Anne Graham Lotz, Keith Green, Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill and Andrae Crouch. He produces other artists recordings, working with people like Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill, Sara Groves and Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary.) He has spoken at many national conferences and Christian music festivals. The nationwide KLove radio network airs Bob's "Time Out with Bob Kilpatrick" devotional program three times daily. Bob writes a column for Christian Musician magazine. His writings also have appeared in worshiptogether , Youth Specialties, CCM, Relevant magazine & crosswalk . Bob is an ordained minister, and the ...
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