What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

During that OGWT perf of "Sultans of Swing", a mention of this perf 20 years later was flashed--and an epic performance it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxsnIRpy2E << Even though you can't hear it, I love the back-and-forth stage chat and obvious affection shown between Mr. Knopfler and Slowhand. Thanks for the memory-trigger, Crazy-Horse. MY OTT persona asks, "How about an hour of Mark Knopfler"?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlGBIzN2ls << not exactly a pretty boy anymore--but then he never really was.
BONUS 1: With Chet Atkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSdThfseSkQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZ99oQ1piE << this last in an informal setting
BONUS 2: add in the Everly Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkFcQRiFL68
These 2 guys did an album together 24 years ago: http://www.allmusic.com/album/neck-and-n...0000316485

thanks Jazzy...

this forum is all about jogging people's memories about music IMO...glad it bought a couple back to you mate...
yeh, i have the "neck and neck" album...i find it a bit boring in parts, but overall pretty good, love the finger pickin' styles on it...

Knopfler does seem to fit into the "country/bluegrass" style effortlessly, but then again, early Dire Straits has a distinct country flavour happening anyway, even stuff like "so far away" and "walk of life" could be called 'crossover country' IMO.

i just find it so difficult to fault Knopfler as a writer/guitarist and DS as a band in general, IMO, they have made three of the greatest albums in rock history.."making movies","love over gold" and "brothers in arms"...i wouldnt know about "on every street" because i never bought it, i wasnt impressed with "calling elvis" and "heavy fuel" when they were released as singles, but then again, after the phenomenal success of the previous three and "brothers in arms" inparticular they were always going to have their backs to the wall with a followup album...
that said i believe "on every street" still managed to sell some 8 million copies...and thats pretty good for any artist isnt it?!

im not also a huge fan of instrumentals as a whole, but Knopfler's "local hero" and "cal" soundtracks are fantastic..i have those on vinyl, and deserve to make the jump to cd in my collection.. i will get round to it someday.