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Showing posts with label Dire Straits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dire Straits. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Sultan of swing: an ode to Mark Knopfler
The first
time I heard Dire Straits I must have been in second grade. “Walk of Life” came on the radio and the Hammond organ hooked me immediately. Of course, being
eight I had no idea the song was brought to life by Mark Knopfler and his crew
of British rockers or how to ever find it again, so that little riff was
consigned to a dusty corner of my mind even as my eight grade self downloaded
“Money for Nothing” and “Sultansof Swing” on Napster.* There it
sat waiting to be rediscovered with only the harmonica part from “Fear ofFalling” to keep it company. Then,
in high school, I bought Dire Straits’ greatest hits CD. Of course I rediscovered
“Walk of Life” as I drove the Carter boys and my brothers home from Best Buy in
my mom’s minivan.** But I also realized something else: Mark Knopfler is a
flipping genius.
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