Tracks on Kill to Get Crimson by Warner Bros / Wea
True Love Will Never Fade
The Scaffolder's Wife
The Fizzy and the Still
Heart Full of Holes
We Can Get Wild
Secondary Waltz
Punish the Monkey
Let It All Go
Behind with the Rent
The Fish and the Bird
Madame Geneva's
In the Sky
Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
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Building on last year’s Grammy®-nominated All The Roadrunning collaboration with Emmylou Harris, his highest charting non Dire Straits album to date Top 20 Pop, scanning 400,000 copies in the U.S. acclaimed singer-songwriter guitarist Mark Knopfler unveils his fifth solo album, Kill To Get Crimson. While certain to appeal to his loyal fan base, the album’s artful guitar rock will also entice new fans to Knopfler’s signature sound (he’s #27 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time), instantly recognizable vocals and smart lyrics. A multiple-Grammy winner who has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide, Knopfler remains one of rock’s most admired artists.
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Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
Three decades after Dire Straits broke onto the scene with their remarkable debut, Mark Knopfler remains an iconic figure in popular music, his graceful guitar playing equaled only by his genial baritone and a novelist's ability to create distinct characters and themes in his songs. His fifth solo album since he pulled the plug on the band in 1995, Crimson reflects on a torrent of narratives, from the gracefully aging spouse in the flute-powered ballad "The Scaffolder's Wife" to the valiant down-and-outer in the Scottish folk song "Heart Full of Holes." Employing accordions, fiddles, and horns as majestic accompaniment, Knopfler drifts into the Celtic-tinged melodies of his past, explicitly in the whiskey-soaked singalong "Secondary Waltz," the busker's saga "Madame Geneva's," and "The Fish and the Bird," with its vagabond pensiveness. Clocking in at just under an hour, the album--without any page-turning epic--plays instead like an anthology of written works, every personification crisp in definition, every story exquisitely told. --Scott Holter
Customer Reviews
Not just a bunch of fickle tunes for fickle fans - Reviewed on 2008-11-22
Gone now are those marvelous guitar solos, charged with energy yet seemingly effortlessly controlled as, for instance, the Basel live version of "Sultans of Swing". But still very apparent in this CD is the ability to tell a story in a song and to express emotion on the guitar. Knopfler has moved on, and although the youthful energy is no longer there, his art has not diminished, and that puts him in another league from any other musician that I know.
The quality of the music is toned down but still very apparent. Some of the story songs are certainly by comparison to his classic stuff a bit quaint - like "The Scaffolder's Wife" and "Secondary Waltz" - and they are not the stuff that invites listening over and over again. But they are well done and not just throwaways, although perhaps they require the listener to be beyond a certain age.
The rest of the CD has a lot more understatement and more staying power. Songs such as "Behind with the Rent" and "In the Sky" are gems that are beautifully done. As a whole the lyrics are subtle and clever. The guitar says much in a quiet way.
Superb storytelling - Reviewed on 2008-10-30
The lyrics and the scenes described are just wonderful. Listen and you will understand.
Superb Music - Reviewed on 2008-10-18
Mark Knopfler is a fine musician with highly developed skills as a producer.
I admire and respect his hard work as I do his humanity.
Why Isn't This Guy Well Known? - Reviewed on 2008-10-08
1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
What a great CD! Great guitar, insightful lyrics, Great Beat and it's easy to dance to. I give it a 98%.
I miss Dire Straights... - Reviewed on 2008-09-07
3 customers found this review not to be helpful.
Knopfler is one of the best guitarists and songwriters on planet earth. But I expected more.....I wish his old band was still together.
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