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| | Get Lucky | | | Music Artist : | | Mark Knopfler | | Music Style : | | Singer-Songwriters | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros. | | Release Date : | | 2009-09-15 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Border Reiver
2. Hard Shoulder
3. You Can't Beat The House
4. Before Gas And TV
5. Monteleone
6. Cleaning My Gun
7. The Car Was The One
8. Remembrance Day
9. Get Lucky
10. So Far From The Clyde
11. Piper To The End
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Could this his best solo work?
Submitted on: 2009-11-20 |
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| What a great record. After a so so KTGC Get Lucky has been played over and over in my home. Looking forward to seeing his show this coming April. MK is one class act. |
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Mark's A Different Person Now - and It's Cool
Submitted on: 2009-11-19 |
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| Of course GET LUCKY is a great album. It's a deeper and more personal extension of all the richness and sophistication that has always been present in his work. Fade to Blade, Iron Hand, Prairie Wedding and so many more are all noble antecedents. Like Monteleone, Mark's just getting every single subtle vibration out of his words and music. He's feeling it and so are we. He's very much in his own space, like Lightfoot, and painting away. This is the reflective Mark, not the rock star, and it's a thing of beauty. |
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A knockout
Submitted on: 2009-11-17 |
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| Mark Knopfler is a brilliant songwriter who can evoke a time, a feeling, a memory, or a life as well as anyone. But it's his playing that knocks me out and literally moves me to tears. He is one of the rare musicians recognizable at one note, but there is not the least bit of self-conscious virtuosity. He is neither understated nor overstated, just absolutely spot on, every single note, every single song. |
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Beautiful Orchestration!
Submitted on: 2009-11-12 |
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I will pre-order and buy a new Mark Knopfler album any day! He writes like Dylan, plays guitar like Clapton (different style, but you get the idea), and his compositions keep getting better and better, especially in the good company of the likes of Guy Fletcher and Richard Bennett.
"Get Luck" was not love at-first-listen for me, but it has really grown on me over time. I likened it to Ragpicker's Dream," a bit slow for my tastes. My wife, on the other hand, liked it a lot from the start, and after several times listening, I grew to like it more, and I dug out the song lyrics. After that - I loved it to the point that I would now rate it as my favorite album of 2009!
The disc has not been out of our 5-disc player since it arrived more than a month ago. I actually like every song on the album, but my personal favorites are "Monteleone," "The Car was the One," and the title track. "Monteleone" is beautifully assembled. A "gear-head," Mark has written two of the best songs about racing I know, "Nazareth" and now this. The title track "Get Luck" is a beautiful, upbeat ballad - and it is my current favorite!
I hear just the slightest-bit of Simon and Garfunkel's "April Comes She Will" in certain parts of the melody of "Remembrance Day." I like it!
The orchestration sets this album apart for me. Sure, I love screaming guitars and intricate solos, but that's another album. It's the arrangements that make this collection special for me. I think that Guy Fletcher had a lot to do with that aspect of this album, and I hope that there will be STRINGS that accompany the band on their spring North American tour. I am looking forward to hearing Mark and his band play the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, a fantastic, perfectly renovated venue.
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A Beautiful Compilation
Submitted on: 2009-11-12 |
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| This CD is a beautiful and evocative musical masterpiece. From start to finish, one of the best CD's that I have listened to in quite some time. I think that it is Knopfler's best solo effort yet. Can't wait to see some of these songs live! |
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