One Take Radio Sessions

Mark Knopfler - One Take Radio Sessions

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Artist: Mark Knopfler
Brand: KNOPFLER,MARK
Edition: Music CD
Format: EP
CD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:

Trawlerman's Song
Back to Tupelo
Song for Sonny Liston
Rudiger
Boom, Like That
Everybody Pays
Donegan's Gone
Stand Up Guy

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Music Review: A dose of great music for a low price
Rating: 4 Stars

When I saw the announcement for this CD, I thought, "What's the point?" The songs already exist on other CDs, and there is not even that one "never been released" song to be used as a justification for those that have to have every song from an artist. The fact that this CD cost so little made me pick one up from the local Best Buy.

I have the Shangri-La CD and listen to it often, so when I put this CD in my player I didn't expect much in the way of a change or difference from what I have come to expect from these songs.. I was wrong. These songs being performed live are great! There are some subtle differences in things like tone or prominence of voice versus instruments, nothing earth shattering, but enough to notice, and more importantly enough to have a preference as to which disc to play when listening to a certain song.

This EP will be my choice to listen to "The Trawlerman's Song", "Back to Tupelo", "Song for Sonny Liston" and "Everybody Pays", while the others are just as good as those on the Shangri-La CD. The aforementioned songs are just so much better in terms of clarity and tone, over the previous renditions. Maybe it is intangible, but for me they are more enjoyable on this disc. One nice addition to this EP that did not come from the Shangri-La CD is "Rudiger" which is a song about a stalker that Knopfler wrote after John Lennon was killed (according to his introduction to this song on his "A Night In London" DVD), and this version is much better than the one from his "Golden Heart" CD.

I give this disc 4 out of 5 stars only because they put the weakest track from Shangri-la on it, "Donegan's Gone". Given the limited space for an EP, they could have made the tract list better with one of the other great tunes from that first CD, and not this throw-away shuffle based on hero worship from Knopfler's boyhood.

If you like Knopfler, the price is right for this collection that is just right for when you have a spare block of time for a mini-dose of great music.

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Description of One Take Radio Sessions

Tracks from acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark Knopfler's most rocking album since his halcyon days in Dire Straits are rock solid on the EP Live From Shangri-La. The EP features eight songs recorded live at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, CA, by the mulitple Grammy winner who has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide. Knopfler's signature guitar sound, instantly recognizable vocals and smart lyrics have made him one of rock's most admired artists.

Eschewing much of the stardust that the worldwide success of Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms virtually guaranteed him, Mark Knopfler's belated and halting solo career since has often seemed willfully spectral, if ever driven by a quietly intense musical restlessness. Taking "Rudiger" from his '96 solo debut and seven core tracks from his savory, thematically eclectic '04 collection, Shangri-La, Knopfler returned to the Malibu studio of the same name to forge these more focused, nigh-perfect live renditions with his bandmates. The intimate setting offers added poignancy to "The Trawlerman's Song" and casts "Back to Tupelo" in bluesier, more supple tones, while "Song For Sonny Liston" bristles with grittier energy. Fans of Knopfler's fluid, expressive guitar technique will find much to admire as well, from the sprightly, country-fied chicken-pickin' of "Donegan's Gone" to the tasteful, economic soloing on "Boom, Like That" and "Everybody Pays." But, as on the album that inspired this EP, the real star here is Knopfler the songwriter--an artist whose choice in themes and subtle wordplay has become the equal of his compelling fretwork. --Jerry McCulley

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