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Better still is the songwriting, with the breezy back-porch opener "Beachcombing" and the stately 9/11-themed "If This Is Goodbye" among the highlights. As always, Knopfler's fluid guitar style is engaging, and it adds a shadowy, atmospheric backdrop to the roots-conscious proceedings. On the surface, ALL THE ROADRUNNING is a quiet and unassuming record, but its subtlety and grace are part of its lasting charm.
Recorded intermittently over the course of seven years, ALL THE ROADRUNNING is the collaborative project between Dire Straits guitarist and vocalist Mark Knopfler and country music luminary Emmylou Harris. While Knopfler's bluesy slow-hand picking and minimalist, muttering vocals may seem an odd match for Harris's lush, full-throated soprano, the pairing works remarkably well.
Personnel: Mark Knopfler (vocals, guitar); Emmylou Harris (vocals, acoustic guitar); Richard Bennett (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar); Dan Dugmore (acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Glenn Duncan (mandolin, fiddle); Stuart Duncan (violin); Steve Conn (accordion); The Memphis Horns (horns); Guy Fletcher (piano, organ, synthesizer); Jim Cox (piano, organ); Glenn Worf (bass instrument); Danny Cummings (drums, tambourine); Chad Cromwell (drums).
Rolling Stone (p.57) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[B]allads like the title track and the Springsteen-esque 'Beyond My Wildest Dreams' are world-wise and gently gorgeous."
Entertainment Weekly (p.73) - "[T]he tension between their vocal personas -- she's ever hopeful, he's relentlessly glum -- is the highlight of ALL THE ROADRUNNING." -- Grade: B-
Uncut (p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "When Harris is upfront -- as on the wonderfully delicate 'Rollin' On' or 'Love And Happiness' -- it's sublime, emotive stuff."
Dirty Linen (p.49) - "When it comes to artistic integrity, commercial appeal, and sheer transcendency, it doesn't get much better than this."
No Depression (p.125) - "[A] remarkably cohesive album...sonically every track here sounds like it belongs..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 --- "[W]hen translating his trademark languorous picaresques into his'n'hers arrangements the result is a series of ordinary life duets that...suggest moments of sun-setting harmony at the end of tired lives. Real hardcore country..." All The Roadrunning Music | List Price | $18.98 (You save $7.13) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Pop CDs, Rock | | Label | Warner Bros. (Record Label) | | Orig Year | 2006 | | All Time Sales Rank |  597  | | CD Universe Part number | 7057550 | | Catalog number | 44154 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 25, 2006 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Mark Knopfler; Chuck Ainlay | | Personnel | Paul Franklin - steel guitar
Glenn Worf - bass instrument
Stuart Duncan - violin
Emmylou Harris - vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Knopfler - vocals, guitar
Dan Dugmore - acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar
Richard Bennett - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar
Memphis Horns - horns
Guy Fletcher - piano, organ, synthesizer
Danny Cummings - drums, tambourine
Chad Cromwell - drums
Glen Duncan - mandolin, fiddle
Jim Cox - piano, organ
Steve Conn - accordion
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Mark Knopfler All The Roadrunning Songs All The Roadrunning Music All The Roadrunning Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Knopfler Magic
Wonderful album and I can even get past the country girl
Submitted by mkd (Anniston AL USA) 
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MK a creative force,not afraid to take chances. Song writing beyond reproach. The vocal style of Emylou makes the collection all the more compelling. The man is a visionary talent. As usual quality of recording and level of talent of the players absolutely top notch, but that is what you expect from him. Buy it, it only gets better after repeat listenings.
Submitted by GDcactus (Woodstock, GA, USA)
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the combination of emmlou harris and mark knophler is amazing!! her voice and his gutiar were ment to be together. hope they do a second album!!!
Submitted by daveb4 (wyandanch, ny)
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Good, not great
An interesting album, but it does wear thin after a while. Harris still has a strong voice, but some of the songs lack energy.
Submitted by Tom (NY, NY)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No this is a spiritual journey
To me Mark Knopfler is one of the top musicians alive today. The music he puts out just takes me to a different spiritual plane, the one where i want to be!!! All music is spiritual and can take you places. With Marks guitar and Emmylous voice,you need to just sit back and enjoy the ride. Yeah ,this is a must own cd, and anyone who loves great music should buy it now!
Submitted by senorcito67 (los angeles, ca.)
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Buy All The Roadrunning CD Purchase All The Roadrunning CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Mark Knopfler Shangri-La CD (2004)
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Mark Knopfler's first excursions outside of Dire Straits were film soundtracks, where his guitar mastery served him well. Starting in the mid-1990s, he embarked on a proper post-Straits solo career. By the time of 2004's SHANGRI-LA, Knopfler had almost entirely left behind the expansive instrumental textures of his former band in favor of a more straight-ahead singer/songwriter approach, which works wonderfully here. Knopfler keeps things low-key throughout most of SHANGRI-LA, with quietly intoned, often drolly sardonic lyrics, supple finger-picked guitar lines, and songs full of subtly crafted surprises.
There's a wealth of unusual topics on offer here; "Boom, Like That" is a first-person monologue by Knopfler in the voice of Ray Kroc, the man behind the McDonald's fast-food empire. The bluesy "Song for Sonny Liston" chronicles the famed boxer's brushes with the underworld. ...
| | Van Morrison Pay The Devil CD (2006)
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There are three Morrison originals and a handful of songs popularized by Hank Williams ("Your Cheatin' Heart" and "Half As Much," among them) and Webb Pierce ("There Stands the Glass" and "Back Street Affair"), but the selections are all of a piece, sounding as though they're being transmitted from a Nashville barroom of yore. Morrison's voice doesn't have the elasticity it once did, but there's a textured world-weariness, perfectly suited for these songs, that lets listeners know he's still the man.
Over the course of his remarkable career, Van Morrison has ranged so widely across the musical map that it's not exactly a surprise to hear him settling down for a straightforward American roots effort. PAY THE DEVIL, released in 2006 on the Lost Highway ...
| | Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions CD (2006) DualDisc
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This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.
Bruce Springsteen is certainly no stranger to acoustic-based, folk-inspired music. He began his career as a post-Dylan troubadour, and he's been making "unplugged" albums as far back as 1982's NEBRASKA. He's already recorded Woody Guthrie material, so it's not a shock that he would release a tribute album to folk icon Pete Seeger. WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE SEEGER SESSIONS celebrates not just Seeger's musical influence, of course, but also the political stands the singer took, which obviously resonate with the famously progressive Springsteen.
Unlike NEBRASKA, though, this is no bare-bones affair. The E Street Band may be absent, but Bruce tackles Seeger's tunes in classic larger-than-life Boss style, with a huge band that includes several string players, a horn section, ...
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J.J. Cale is perhaps best known for penning hits for Eric Clapton, including "Cocaine" and "Midnight Hour," yet he's also an accomplished and extremely talented songwriter and guitarist. While no one ever declared, "Cale is God," Clapton clearly has always thought highly of him, and in 2006, the Clapton/Cale mutual admiration society finally made its way into the studio.
The result is 14 songs' worth of the relaxed blues hybrid that Cale built his career around and that earned Clapton the nickname '"Slowhand." The duo produced all the tracks and wrote the majority of ...
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KILL TO GET CRIMSON, Mark Knopfler's fifth solo album since folding Dire Straits in the mid 1990s, continues the trend of his solo work ...
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