Mark Knopfler - A Shot at Glory
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Artist: Mark KnopflerEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-04-30
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Sons of Scotland
- Hard Cases
- He's the Man
- Training
- The New Laird
- Say Too Much
- Four in a Row
- All That I Have in the World
- Sons of Scotland--Quiet Theme
- It's Over
- Wild Mountain Thyme
Music reviews of A Shot at Glory
Music Review: Another nice soundtrack from MK
Rating: 4 Stars
These soundtrack CDs have become a nice way to get some original material from MK between his solo projects. This is no exception. The instrumentals are really nice and the contemporary tunes range from the typical DS style tune to material more like his solo work (I'm thinking Golden Heart here). Of course, I haven't even seen the movie yet and don't know the context for which these tunes were written. This CD is longer time-wise than the last soundtrack (Wag the Dog), but still a little short for today's CD media standards (38 min.).
Description of A Shot at Glory
UK soundtrack to 2000 film starring Robert Duvall & Michael Keaton. Featuring a score by Dire Straits frontman who's also scored the films 'Local Hero' (1983), 'Cal' (1984), 'The Princess Bride' (1987) & 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' (1990). A Warner U.S. release.With its rural Scottish setting and thematic undercurrents of business versus local traditions and personal redemption, this Cinderella soccer tale seems to have a few things in common with Bill Forsyth's Local Hero, not the least of which is an evocative score by Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler. The Scottish guitar hero again rises to the occasion, his acoustic "Sons of Scotland" theme underscoring the story's melancholy emotional landscape, if not necessarily its geographic one. To that end Knopfler bows to expected musical conventions by sprinkling the score with bagpipes, fiddles, and pennywhistles, yet shrewdly weaves them into a more modern, personal tapestry of guitar and pulsing rhythms (especially on the Highland reel-meets-electronica of "Four in a Row") familiar from his work with Dire Straits; tradition meets tempus fugit. Knopfler also serves up a trio of winning songs, whose tenor ranges from the understated macho anthem "He's the Man" to "Say Too Much," a dry, slinky cocktail of lounge jazz influences, and the melancholy folk lament "All That I Have in the World." While Knopfler's contemporary scoring efforts have been sparse and sometimes uneven, this soundtrack seems the perfect match of material and musician. --Jerry McCulley
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