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Mark Knopfler Announces Ninth Solo Studio Album ‘Down The Road Wherever’

The follow-up to 2015’s ‘Tracker’ features many of the musicians Knopfler has worked with in recent years, and a guest appearance by Imelda May.

Published on September 19, 2018

By Paul Sexton


Mark Knopfler will return with his ninth solo studio album, Down The Road Wherever, on 16 November. The follow-up to 2015’s Tracker, it will be released on his own British Grove label via Universal/Virgin EMI and features 14 new Knopfler compositions recorded at his west London studio, also called British Grove. Contributors to the album include Irish star Imelda May.

“’Down The Road Wherever’ is a line from ‘One Song At A Time,’” says Knopfler, referring to the album title and one of its tracks. “I remember my pal Chet Atkins once saying that he picked his way out of poverty one song at a time, and it just stuck in my mind. You get to an age where you’ve written quite a few songs.

“But Down The Road Wherever seems to be appropriate for me, just because it’s what I’ve always done. I’ve always tried to make a record and also to keep my own geography happening in the songs.”

With Knopfler’s ever-present eye for compelling narratives and striking characters, the new songs cover such subjects as his early days in the south-east London area of Deptford, when Dire Straits were a fledgling band; a man out of time reflecting on his circumstances in his local “greasy spoon” café; and a stray Liverpool Football Club fan who finds himself in Newcastle (where Mark himself grew up) on ‘Just A Boy Away From Home.’ That’s the only track on which Knopfler is not the sole writer, as it features the melody of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone,’ also well-known as Liverpool FC’s own anthem.

The team that Knopfler assembled around him for the recording sessions includes many of the musicians who have been with him in the studio and on the road for years. Among them are keyboardist Guy Fletcher, who has worked with him since Dire Straits days and co-produced Down The Road Wherever with Mark; Jim Cox, also on keyboards; Nigel Hitchcock on saxophone, Tom Walsh on trumpet, John McCusker (fiddle), Mike McGoldrick (whistle and flute), Glenn Worf (bass), drummer Ian ‘Ianto’ Thomas and Danny Cummings on percussion.

There are also appearances by Richard Bennett and the widely-travelled Robbie McIntosh on guitar and Trevor Mires on trombone. Along with May, the album has backing vocals by Lance Ellington, Kris Drever, Beverley Skeete and Katie Kissoon.

Down The Road Wherever will be available on digital DL, CD, double vinyl (with one bonus track), deluxe CD with two bonus tracks, and as a lavish box set including the album on both vinyl and deluxe CD. The box will also contain a 12” vinyl EP with four bonus tracks, a 12” print of the artwork and a 12” guitar tablature of a selected song.

“I think the business of making a record, from having written a song and then bringing it to musicians, it can be quite a bendy route,” says Knopfler. “It’s not just motorways all the way…and you can end up in the occasional cul-de-sac, then you have to do a 16-point turn to try to get your truck back out on the main road, as unobtrusively as you can. That’s part of the fun of it.”

And I’ll be out of this place
And down the road wherever
There but for the grace, etcetera
I’ll see you later somewhere down the line
I’ll be picking my way out of here
One song at a time

Mark Knopfler

Down The Road Wherever


Ask Mark Knopfler to explain the title of his ninth solo studio album and he will tell you that Down The Road Wherever is a line from one of the tracks: “One Song At A Time.” He'll give the credit for that title phrase to a sadly departed friend with whom he shared a lifelong love of songwriting and guitar playing, and their endless potential to change lives.

“I remember my pal Chet Atkins once saying that he picked his way out of poverty one song at a time, and it just stuck in my mind,” says Mark. “You get to an age where it is a few songs. But Down The Road Wherever seems to be appropriate, just because it’s what I’ve always done. I’ve always tried to keep my own geography happening in the songs, that applies there as well.” In “One Song At A Time” that autobiographical geography pinpoints Deptford, England, where the up-and-coming Dire Straits began to make their way, one song at a time.

The unassuming spirit of the itinerant songsmith is still Knopfler’s pilot light, inextinguishable through more than 40 years at the absolute pinnacle of his profession. Down The Road Wherever is the latest, elegant evidence of that steadfast hunger, a bold and often surprising songbook of 14 selections (more on the deluxe editions) boiled down from twice as many that went into the workshop.

Mark’s apparently limitless creativity was further extended by simultaneous compositions for the upcoming Local Hero musical. That’s a subject close to his heart too, as the 1983 movie version became his first of several soundtrack projects and included the talismanic instrumental theme “Going Home,” to which his beloved Newcastle United still take the field.

Just as with its 2015 predecessor Tracker and others before it, Down The Road Wherever was created at Knopfler’s own West London recording space, British Grove Studios. Instrumental compadres include longtime collaborators such as co-producer and keyboardist Guy Fletcher, bass player Glenn Worf, pianist Jim Cox, guitarist Richard Bennett, drummer Ian “Ianto” Thomas and percussionist Danny Cummings. Mark’s ten-year association with top folk players John McCusker (fiddle) and Michael McGoldrick (whistles) continues, while additions to the group include saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock and Tom Walsh on trumpet.

As ever, Knopfler found that the pleasure of birthing a new song is complemented by the process of what to do with it. “I enjoy the whole thing, of being inspired to write something, of working on it at home, writing it, and then taking it to a studio to try to make it work as a record,” he says. “I’ve got to make a decision as well: shall I just bring it here (to British Grove) and work on it on my own, or should I take it straight to the band? Because it’ll be a different thing if you do that. So you’re trying to decide which school to send your child to.”

Female backing vocals also abound on several tracks, along with a notable name on the door for “Back On The Dancefloor” in the form of Irish force of nature Imelda May. “It was great to have Imelda on that song, I think she’s fantastic,” says Knopfler. “She really did add a lot of color to it. She’s so creative, and that was fun. It’s a kind of a mystery song to me but I like it, that’s one of my favorites.”

“Female backing vocals are something that was going to happen. [I’ve] probably been meaning to feature that for a long time. And I’ve been enjoying having the brass element in quite a lot of the songs. When I go out on tour, I’m thinking I’ll have the elements I’ve always had but add brass to the line-up. It’ll just be more people on the bus.”

Longtime fans of this giant among singer-songwriter guitar heroes will note some palpable changes of mood on Down The Road Wherever, which stays true to the folk and roots-inflected ambience of his solo oeuvre but introduces new elements of jazz, funk and even a hint of the rockier leanings of earlier days.

“It will be different because whether you want to or not, you develop,” says Knopfler. “That’s just what happens. Sometimes the songs will tell you after you’re done, what it is you’ve been doing wrong, or where you’ve been going. So that’s a never-ending source of amusement. You can even find out from doing them what they’re about, or what you’ve been thinking about, perhaps.”

Other sonic surprises include the sparse and deeply romantic balladWhen You Leave” and the playful “Heavy Up,” inspired by a fellow songwriter who told Mark that his response to being told to “lighten up” was “I’ll lighten up for you if you’ll heavy up for me.” There is further inspiration from close to home in “Just A Boy Away From Home,” which rose from a memory back home in Newcastle, when his father was in hospital after a heart attack.
“He was in Newcastle General, which as anyone from the Northeast of England will know is very close to the football ground. He was lying awake in the middle of the night feeling a bit sorry for himself, and he heard a lad walking on the deserted street outside singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone.’ Of course, he was a Liverpool fan and he’d been to the match—or who knows, he might have missed it somehow. But there he was in Newcastle singing his song. My dad found it inspiring, the spirit of it.” The track includes a full, stirring reprise of the famous melody. “It just felt good to play it on the slide,” says Mark. “I thought, ‘I’ve started, so I may as well finish.’ And it’s fun for the band to play.”

The completion of another momentous entry in Knopfler’s catalogue is the prelude to another joy of his life: the chance to perform some of it along with his endless supply of classic songs on the road. “You do find yourself thinking about being on a stage and playing a song,” he says. “I’ll be thinking about everybody, about having Mike McGoldrick and John McCusker, the folk musicians, as part of some songs, and Nigel and Tom as part of the brass thing on others. I’m looking forward to it.”

Down The Road Wherever concludes with “Matchstick Man,” another personal memory that poignantly captures Mark Knopfler as he was, and as he remains. “That’s me,” he confesses readily, “a young idiot with a guitar and a bag, climbing up into trucks and hitchhiking. I was trying to get back from a Christmas Eve gig in Penzance early on Christmas Day. I thought I’d hitch home. I don’t think I really knew it was 500 miles from there.”

“I got a lift up the old A1 and he let me off at a high crossroads in the Midlands. The sun was shining, there was snow everywhere and I could see for miles. There was nothing moving anywhere. I’m standing there with my guitar case and bag and this realization of what I’d chosen to do with my life. To me, it was exactly what I wanted to do. It’s just a snapshot of me then. From the air I would have been a tiny matchstick figure in this vastness of snow with his dream of being a musician.”

“You need some energy to make these things happen,” he concludes. “You’re not going to last if you haven’t got enough to get you through all the tougher times. I feel the same way I always felt. When I come in here and I see a couple of guitars in the corner, I get the same buzz that I had when I was a kid, and you’ve got to have that. It’s almost a childish attitude that keeps you fired up about turning up.”

STANDARD EDITION

 1.Trapper Man 6.00

Ian Thomas, Drums
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 2.Back On The Dance Floor 5.30

Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

3.Nobody’s Child 4.16

Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

4.Just A Boy Away From Home (featuring "You'll Never Walk Alone", by Rodgers & Hammerstein) 5.12

Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 5.When You Leave 4.12

Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Vibraphone, Recording Engineer

6.Good On You Son 5.37

Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet?
Nigel Hitchcock: Tenor Sax
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist

7.My Bacon Roll 5.35

Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

 8.Nobody Does That 5.15


Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Keyboards, Recording Engineer

9.Drovers’ Road (apparently not in the US version or not in the standard version according MK.com) 5.05

Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

10.One Song At A Time 6.17

Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

11.Floating Away 5.02

Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

12.Slow Learner 4.34

Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

13.Heavy Up 6.00

Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Organ, Recording Engineer

14.Matchstick Man 2.52

Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals

BONUS TRACKS IN DELUXE CD

15.Every Heart In The Room 4.30

Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

16.Rear View Mirror 2.29


Ian Thomas, Drums
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion


BONUS TRACKS IN THE BOX (VINYL)


17.Don’t Suck Me In
18.Sky And Water
19.Pale Imitation

BONUS TRACKS (unknown where it would be...)

20.Back In The Day


21.MOVING UP (T-925.653.523-6)


Mark Knopfler gleams with pride as he shows me around British Grove Studios in a quiet corner of Chiswick in London. In the control room, alongside the main state-of-the-art desk, there are three vintage consoles, one of which was used to record Band on the Run by Wings, lovingly maintained so they’re still in operation. Across the glass in the live room, a studio hand is tidying away the set-up for a film score recorded here, so there’s still a digital counter that keeps time to an nth of a second, rows of comfy-looking headphones for the orchestra, and leads, wires and pre-war microphones restored to great nick, because, according to Knopfler, no microphone records strings better.

“The padding can be flipped around too,” he says, pointing up to sound pads that line the walls. “You’d want the soft side if you were recording Frank Sinatra, or you can turn them around and have a hard sound if you want to rock out.”

If anyone knows how to make a versatile recording space, it’s Knopfler: a self-taught guitarist who went from his childhood home in Newcastle to front Dire Straits, one of the most successful rock bands in British history, before entering a prolific and varied career involve critically acclaimed solo albums, collaboration albums, film scores, writing songs like Tina Turner’s Private Dancer, and a spot of producing if the likes of Bob Dylan or Van Morrison need his magic touch.

Even now, his appetite to learn is apparent. As we move into the second studio, all quality wood and soft lighting, he explains how he’s looking for a jazz guitar tutor to expand his breadth, as if he wasn’t regularly voted one of the greatest guitarists of all time. (“I play like a plumber,” he remarks.)

Speaking with such humility, in a comfortable grey jumper and hair silvery and shorn, you’d never guess he was the same person as the sweatbanded rock star showboating in the Money for Nothing video (the first song played on MTV Europe), nor the same person who this year’s Sunday Times Rich List valued at €80 million.

Not that money matters. Truly, it takes an unblemished soul to refuse continual requests to reform Dire Straits for lucrative sums since their split in 1995.

Formed 18 years previously as an evolution of his former pub band the Café Racers, the group immediately grew interest; the enduring Sultans of Swing was their first release, and they followed it with surprise (Romeo and Juliet) after surprise (Private Investigations, Britain’s most unlikely-sounding number two single).

Then Brothers in Arms happened. With tracks like Money for Nothing and Walk of Life offering no respite from their ubiquity, it eventually racked up sales of 30 million – the same as Nirvana’s Nevermind, to put it in context. If anyone in Europe or US hadn’t heard of them, that changed with Brothers in Arms.

But just one album later, and Mark Knopfler stepped away from the behemoth, preferring to concentrate on his more creatively satisfying solo career.

“I’ve been offered enormous amounts of money to do all that Dire Straits stuff,” he says. “I don’t know how much – I’m not interested in that and I never have been. I’m quite proud of the fact that I’ve never done anything for money, and I’m not starting now. The exception would be if there was an absolute crisis with the studio, if I couldn’t run the ship the way I like to. Otherwise, it’s just a load of old exhaust to me.”

If his Dire Straits heyday is behind him, more exciting is his new release, Down the Road Wherever, recorded in these very studios. His ninth solo album and one which showcases his rootsy rock delivered with the Knopfler coolness, it features the upbeat lead track Good on You Son, plus the intriguingly titled My Bacon Roll.

It turns out the roll represents the disenfranchised part of society that longs for the past.

“The song is basically a Brexit Man in a café,” he explains. “To me, he is a man out of his time. He says: ‘I used to love a bit of folding, just for getting by, a wad of cash, now that’s out of date, and so am I’. Because now people would buy coffee with their card. That’s the modern way. Who carries around a wad of cash anymore? But it’s like being nostalgic for a time before food containers. It’s not something you can stop.”

Elsewhere, Back on the Dance Floor features Imelda May, the latest in a long line of Irish musicians with whom Knopfler has collaborated. He helped Phil Lynott out on his solo albums, and included an Irish contingent of Paul Brady, Dónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor, Liam O’Flynn and Seán Keane in his own solo album Golden Heart (Brady and O’Flynn previously played on Mark’s soundtrack for the Irish drama Cal).

“My old friend Paul Brady helped put an outfit of heavyweight, great musicians on Golden Heart,” he says. “That helped me make friends with so many great players. It was a tremendous quartet that I took around with the band. If you love Celtic music, then you feel part-Irish as a musician. Musicians kind of understand it.

“Ireland is full of memories for me. Obviously playing there with Dire Straits was amazing. When we eventually got there, the audiences were manic,” he says, referring to their five-night run in Dublin in 1991, eight years after they last appeared in Ireland.

“I can still remember playing the intro to Romeo and Juliet at the Point, and as I walked up to the mic, before I could sing, someone yelled, ‘A lovestruck Romeo!’ and everybody roared with laughter. The whole place collapsed. I had to laugh, everybody laughed. We had good times there.”

He’ll be returning to the updated version of the same venue when he tours the album next year. But now 69, he’s limiting his time on the road, and he warns it may well grind to a halt after the tour.

“I have more days off on the road now than I used to,” he says. “I used to play six nights a week, but you get to an age where it’s too much strain, so I do three in a row now, and then a night off, as befits an ageing performer.

“I think touring will be the first casualty. I’ll have to stop, like Paul Simon has just stopped. You can understand it, because it takes a lot out of you. So I’ll go on writing, I’ll go on recording if I can, and then maybe just do the odd show.”

Does that mean the 2019 dates will be his last proper tour?

“It might very well be. It will be funny to say goodbye to it, because it’s always been the end of the cycle. But I won’t think about it. I’ll just make a record like I’ve always made, and then when it comes to talking about the tour, I just won’t talk about it.”
Coming off the road is inevitable unless you’re Bob Dylan; a more curious trend among his peers is to approve a biopic. The newly-released Bohemian Rhapsody tells the story of Queen, while Elton John’s biopic Rocketman is due to appear in cinemas at the end of May next year. But not one to revisit past territory, we won’t see a Mark Knopfler-approved Dire Straits biopic any time soon. Even though it’s begging to be titled Walk of Life.

“I’m not very good at nostalgia – that’s my point with My Bacon Roll,” he says. “I don’t like going back to old school reunions. I’m more interested in now.” That might explain why he was notably absent as Dire Straits were inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in April. In the end, former members John Illsley, Alan Clark and Guy Fletcher represented the band. Mark’s brother David Knopfler retracted his attendance when the organisers retracted their offer to cover his travel expenses.

“I can well understand that with only $5 million a year in sponsorships and 100k a table and no fees for the artist that paying my taxi to the airport must have given them heart murmurs,” David wrote on Facebook. The organisers made Dire Straits the first act to be inducted without an induction speech or commemorative performance. Ouch.

Asked to shed light on his absence at an event that prompted the Police, Led Zeppelin and Talking Heads to semi-reunite, he shrugs his shoulders as calm as ever.

“It doesn’t interest me very much,” he says. “And I don’t like being told what to do. They called Paul Crockard [his longtime manager] first. We have the same detectors, and I could tell he wasn’t happy. I think he felt they were dictating the details of how it would run, who should be there, when we should go, how much press to do.

“At that time, I was trying to ride two horses at once: I was writing a musical for Local Hero and trying to make this album, I had plenty to be doing, so it didn’t interest me.

“Also, the name puts me off. Fame is a by-product of success to me. I like that success has enabled me to build this studio, but I don’t know that fame has ever done anything good.”

Aside from touring, Local Hero, the musical, is Knopfler’s main project for 2019. Based on Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film for which he wrote the Bafta-nominated soundtrack, it finally opens at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh next March for an initial run.

Knopfler, who was born in Glasgow, says: “I didn’t think I would ever do a musical because I’m not a musical type of a person. I don’t normally get excited about them and it’s not usually my style. But I love the story of Local Hero – it still makes me emotional, and I found I could write songs for the characters.”

So while he may be winding down touring activity soon, with his mental dexterity still evident in his new output – and imminent music lessons – expect to hear new projects from Knopfler in years to come. Just don’t expect a Dire Straits reunion.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 19, 2018, 02:35:33 PM
It will be difficult to wait until November 16 :-\
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 19, 2018, 02:43:39 PM
"the new songs cover such subjects as his early days in the south-east London area of Deptford, when Dire Straits were a fledgling band"

my heart beats faster
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on September 19, 2018, 02:51:19 PM
Can you add the tracklist and track lenghts also?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 19, 2018, 03:05:09 PM
Can you add the tracklist and track lenghts also?

I will
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on September 19, 2018, 05:00:58 PM
Imelda May.  Didn't he write a song about her and all her shoes?  ;)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 19, 2018, 07:23:46 PM
In this text in the first post of this thread 14 songs are mentioned. I got confused by the talk about now 13 on the standard which is no problem as long as the Deluxe has 16. It's difficult to keep up with this flow on Information being at work this afternoon..

But to he honest, when the 13 are mentioned on the official site, it is totally clear to me that it is their mistake, not the mistake of the retailers. We know how they work, don't we  :-* and I was astonished that nobody so far doubts the Info about 13 tracks?

If somebody is able to enlighten me it would be very appreciated.

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 19, 2018, 08:56:06 PM
In this text in the first post of this thread 14 songs are mentioned. I got confused by the talk about now 13 on the standard which is no problem as long as the Deluxe has 16. It's difficult to keep up with this flow on Information being at work this afternoon..

But to he honest, when the 13 are mentioned on the official site, it is totally clear to me that it is their mistake, not the mistake of the retailers. We know how they work, don't we  :-* and I was astonished that nobody so far doubts the Info about 13 tracks?

If somebody is able to enlighten me it would be very appreciated.

LE


https://shop.virginemi.com/markknopfler/?utm_campaign=MarkKnopflerGoodOnYouSon20180914&utm_content=&utm_medium=genericlink&utm_source=OriginalLink&utm_umguk=twitter.com%2FMarkKnopfler%2Fstatus%2F1042368104888762368
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: mschaap on September 19, 2018, 09:41:47 PM
The album is 14 tracks long — 16 if you buy the deluxe version — and has a far-ranging subject base, which the Dire Straits guitarist says is about “keeping [my] own geography happening.” There’s a song about an old man feeling out of place in a diner; one about a soccer fan being lost in a strange town; another about a musician hitchhiking in a snowstorm.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: mschaap on September 19, 2018, 09:45:50 PM
..and a man out of time in his local greasy spoon.”
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 19, 2018, 09:49:09 PM
"another about a musician hitchhiking in a snowstorm"

Source?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 19, 2018, 09:51:33 PM
"another about a musician hitchhiking in a snowstorm"

Source?

Universal
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: zipzapzopzoup on September 19, 2018, 09:54:38 PM
In this text in the first post of this thread 14 songs are mentioned. I got confused by the talk about now 13 on the standard which is no problem as long as the Deluxe has 16. It's difficult to keep up with this flow on Information being at work this afternoon..

But to he honest, when the 13 are mentioned on the official site, it is totally clear to me that it is their mistake, not the mistake of the retailers. We know how they work, don't we  :-* and I was astonished that nobody so far doubts the Info about 13 tracks?

If somebody is able to enlighten me it would be very appreciated.

LE

The North American version is 13 tracks. Europe is 14. I don't know why they are different, but the official site is correct about the version they are offering.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 19, 2018, 09:58:33 PM
"another about a musician hitchhiking in a snowstorm"

Source?

Universal

Thanks. Universal PL Very modestly:(
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 19, 2018, 10:02:12 PM
In this text in the first post of this thread 14 songs are mentioned. I got confused by the talk about now 13 on the standard which is no problem as long as the Deluxe has 16. It's difficult to keep up with this flow on Information being at work this afternoon..

But to he honest, when the 13 are mentioned on the official site, it is totally clear to me that it is their mistake, not the mistake of the retailers. We know how they work, don't we  :-* and I was astonished that nobody so far doubts the Info about 13 tracks?

If somebody is able to enlighten me it would be very appreciated.

LE

The North American version is 13 tracks. Europe is 14. I don't know why they are different, but the official site is correct about the version they are offering.

Hey thank you!

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: IrisRose on September 19, 2018, 10:54:02 PM
Here are the tracks for the deluxe edition--sent to the US subscribers     

Trapper Man
Back On The Dance Floor
Nobody’s Child
SIDE 2

Nobody Does That
Good On You Son
Floating Away
SIDE 3

One Song At A Time
Heavy Up
Slow Learner
SIDE 4

Just A Boy Away From Home
My Bacon Roll
When You Leave
Matchstick Man


Bonus 12" Vinyl
SIDE 1

Drovers' Road
Don't Suck Me In
SIDE 2

Sky And Water
Pale Imitation
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: tunnel85 on September 19, 2018, 11:14:38 PM
I'll buy the german Mediamarkt version.  :smack
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jabbathehut on September 20, 2018, 12:24:23 AM
Why do you have to buy the cd deluxe and lp deluxe to get everything or have I mis read it.That is not very fan friendly.
Will individual tracks be available for download.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: wakeywakey on September 20, 2018, 06:37:05 AM
Why do you have to buy the cd deluxe and lp deluxe to get everything or have I mis read it.That is not very fan friendly.
Will individual tracks be available for download.

You get the CD deluxe with the LP deluxe(box set.)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 20, 2018, 08:48:10 AM
Can you add the tracklist and track lenghts also?

Information updated in the first post.

Please all of you check just in case there are mistakes and correct them.

Which song is the one that is out from the US standard CD edition?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on September 20, 2018, 09:04:59 AM
Can you add the tracklist and track lenghts also?

Information updated in the first post.

Please all of you check just in case there are mistakes and correct them.

Which song is the one that is out from the US standard CD edition?
Also, no other stuff then info about the album or questions about it, no qualitative feedback. Info/questions only

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Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 20, 2018, 09:07:00 AM
Can you add the tracklist and track lenghts also?

Information updated in the first post.

Please all of you check just in case there are mistakes and correct them.

Which song is the one that is out from the US standard CD edition?
Also, no other stuff then info about the album or questions about it, no qualitative feedback. Info/questions only

sent from my Samsung Galaxy 9+ via tapatalk

Sorry, what?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 20, 2018, 09:18:40 AM
Minor correction maybe the two bonus tracks on the Deluxe Edition are not track numbers 15 and 16 as Matchstick Man is the closing track on both editions.

But if you just see it as counting it is ok of course

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 20, 2018, 09:23:46 AM
Minor correction maybe the two bonus tracks on the Deluxe Edition are not track numbers 15 and 16 as Matchstick Man is the closing track on both editions.

But if you just see it as counting it is ok of course

LE

Yes, I did it as counting as in the deluxe version most of the tracks change positions, this way I avoid to put again all the tracks and it's clear "what's new" in any edition, or at least I thought it would be clearer...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 20, 2018, 09:33:28 AM
 :thumbsup

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on September 20, 2018, 09:39:27 AM
Minor correction maybe the two bonus tracks on the Deluxe Edition are not track numbers 15 and 16 as Matchstick Man is the closing track on both editions.

But if you just see it as counting it is ok of course

LE

Yes, I did it as counting as in the deluxe version most of the tracks change positions, this way I avoid to put again all the tracks and it's clear "what's new" in any edition, or at least I thought it would be clearer...

Agree this way. It is very clear this way. Good edit  :thumbsup
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on September 20, 2018, 11:49:51 AM
Can you add the tracklist and track lenghts also?

Information updated in the first post.

Please all of you check just in case there are mistakes and correct them.

Which song is the one that is out from the US standard CD edition?
Also, no other stuff then info about the album or questions about it, no qualitative feedback. Info/questions only

sent from my Samsung Galaxy 9+ via tapatalk

Sorry, what?
i mean, no "i do not like it because blabla" or "i love it because" etc...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: zipzapzopzoup on September 20, 2018, 05:04:33 PM


Which song is the one that is out from the US standard CD edition?

Drovers' Road.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 20, 2018, 06:50:26 PM
Mark Knopfler Announces Ninth Solo Studio Album ‘Down The Road Wherever’

The follow-up to 2015’s ‘Tracker’ features many of the musicians Knopfler has worked with in recent years, and a guest appearance by Imelda May.

Published on September 19, 2018

By Paul Sexton


Mark Knopfler will return with his ninth solo studio album, Down The Road Wherever, on 16 November. The follow-up to 2015’s Tracker, it will be released on his own British Grove label via Universal/Virgin EMI and features 14 new Knopfler compositions recorded at his west London studio, also called British Grove. Contributors to the album include Irish star Imelda May.

“’Down The Road Wherever’ is a line from ‘One Song At A Time,’” says Knopfler, referring to the album title and one of its tracks. “I remember my pal Chet Atkins once saying that he picked his way out of poverty one song at a time, and it just stuck in my mind. You get to an age where you’ve written quite a few songs.

“But Down The Road Wherever seems to be appropriate for me, just because it’s what I’ve always done. I’ve always tried to make a record and also to keep my own geography happening in the songs.”

With Knopfler’s ever-present eye for compelling narratives and striking characters, the new songs cover such subjects as his early days in the south-east London area of Deptford, when Dire Straits were a fledgling band; a man out of time reflecting on his circumstances in his local “greasy spoon” café; and a stray Liverpool Football Club fan who finds himself in Newcastle (where Mark himself grew up) on ‘Just A Boy Away From Home.’ That’s the only track on which Knopfler is not the sole writer, as it features the melody of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone,’ also well-known as Liverpool FC’s own anthem.

The team that Knopfler assembled around him for the recording sessions includes many of the musicians who have been with him in the studio and on the road for years. Among them are keyboardist Guy Fletcher, who has worked with him since Dire Straits days and co-produced Down The Road Wherever with Mark; Jim Cox, also on keyboards; Nigel Hitchcock on saxophone, Tom Walsh on trumpet, John McCusker (fiddle), Mike McGoldrick (whistle and flute), Glenn Worf (bass), drummer Ian ‘Ianto’ Thomas and Danny Cummings on percussion.

There are also appearances by Richard Bennett and the widely-travelled Robbie McIntosh on guitar and Trevor Mires on trombone. Along with May, the album has backing vocals by Lance Ellington, Kris Drever, Beverley Skeete and Katie Kissoon.

Down The Road Wherever will be available on digital DL, CD, double vinyl (with one bonus track), deluxe CD with two bonus tracks, and as a lavish box set including the album on both vinyl and deluxe CD. The box will also contain a 12” vinyl EP with four bonus tracks, a 12” print of the artwork and a 12” guitar tablature of a selected song.

“I think the business of making a record, from having written a song and then bringing it to musicians, it can be quite a bendy route,” says Knopfler. “It’s not just motorways all the way…and you can end up in the occasional cul-de-sac, then you have to do a 16-point turn to try to get your truck back out on the main road, as unobtrusively as you can. That’s part of the fun of it.”

And I’ll be out of this place
And down the road wherever
There but for the grace, etcetera
I’ll see you later somewhere down the line
I’ll be picking my way out of here
One song at a time

STANDARD EDITION

 1.Trapper Man
 2.Back On The Dance Floor
 3.Nobody’s Child
 4.Just A Boy Away From Home
 5.When You Leave
 6.Good On You Son
 7.My Bacon Roll
 8.Nobody Does That
 9.Drovers’ Road (apparently not in the US version or not in the standard version according MK.com)
10.One Song At A Time
11.Floating Away
12.Slow Learner
13.Heavy Up
14.Matchstick Man

BONUS TRACKS IN DELUXE CD

15.Every Heart In The Room
16.Rear View Mirror

BONUS TRACKS IN THE BOX (VINYL)


17.Don’t Suck Me In
18.Sky And Water
19.Pale Imitation

MUSICIANS

Mark Knopfler
Guy Fletcher
Jim Cox
Glenn Worf
Ian Thomas
Nigel Hitchcock
John McCusker
Mike McGoldrick
Danny Cummings
   
GUEST MUSICIANS

Richard Bennett
Robbie McIntosh
Trevor Mires
Tom Walsh

GUEST STARS

Imelda May
Lance Ellington
Kris Drever
Beverley Skeete
Katie Kissoon.


 :thumbsup I missed that. Thanks jbaent:)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on September 20, 2018, 07:53:44 PM
Richard is a guess musician???
Mark Knopfler Announces Ninth Solo Studio Album ‘Down The Road Wherever’

The follow-up to 2015’s ‘Tracker’ features many of the musicians Knopfler has worked with in recent years, and a guest appearance by Imelda May.

Published on September 19, 2018

By Paul Sexton


Mark Knopfler will return with his ninth solo studio album, Down The Road Wherever, on 16 November. The follow-up to 2015’s Tracker, it will be released on his own British Grove label via Universal/Virgin EMI and features 14 new Knopfler compositions recorded at his west London studio, also called British Grove. Contributors to the album include Irish star Imelda May.

“’Down The Road Wherever’ is a line from ‘One Song At A Time,’” says Knopfler, referring to the album title and one of its tracks. “I remember my pal Chet Atkins once saying that he picked his way out of poverty one song at a time, and it just stuck in my mind. You get to an age where you’ve written quite a few songs.

“But Down The Road Wherever seems to be appropriate for me, just because it’s what I’ve always done. I’ve always tried to make a record and also to keep my own geography happening in the songs.”

With Knopfler’s ever-present eye for compelling narratives and striking characters, the new songs cover such subjects as his early days in the south-east London area of Deptford, when Dire Straits were a fledgling band; a man out of time reflecting on his circumstances in his local “greasy spoon” café; and a stray Liverpool Football Club fan who finds himself in Newcastle (where Mark himself grew up) on ‘Just A Boy Away From Home.’ That’s the only track on which Knopfler is not the sole writer, as it features the melody of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone,’ also well-known as Liverpool FC’s own anthem.

The team that Knopfler assembled around him for the recording sessions includes many of the musicians who have been with him in the studio and on the road for years. Among them are keyboardist Guy Fletcher, who has worked with him since Dire Straits days and co-produced Down The Road Wherever with Mark; Jim Cox, also on keyboards; Nigel Hitchcock on saxophone, Tom Walsh on trumpet, John McCusker (fiddle), Mike McGoldrick (whistle and flute), Glenn Worf (bass), drummer Ian ‘Ianto’ Thomas and Danny Cummings on percussion.

There are also appearances by Richard Bennett and the widely-travelled Robbie McIntosh on guitar and Trevor Mires on trombone. Along with May, the album has backing vocals by Lance Ellington, Kris Drever, Beverley Skeete and Katie Kissoon.

Down The Road Wherever will be available on digital DL, CD, double vinyl (with one bonus track), deluxe CD with two bonus tracks, and as a lavish box set including the album on both vinyl and deluxe CD. The box will also contain a 12” vinyl EP with four bonus tracks, a 12” print of the artwork and a 12” guitar tablature of a selected song.

“I think the business of making a record, from having written a song and then bringing it to musicians, it can be quite a bendy route,” says Knopfler. “It’s not just motorways all the way…and you can end up in the occasional cul-de-sac, then you have to do a 16-point turn to try to get your truck back out on the main road, as unobtrusively as you can. That’s part of the fun of it.”

And I’ll be out of this place
And down the road wherever
There but for the grace, etcetera
I’ll see you later somewhere down the line
I’ll be picking my way out of here
One song at a time

STANDARD EDITION

 1.Trapper Man
 2.Back On The Dance Floor
 3.Nobody’s Child
 4.Just A Boy Away From Home
 5.When You Leave
 6.Good On You Son
 7.My Bacon Roll
 8.Nobody Does That
 9.Drovers’ Road (apparently not in the US version or not in the standard version according MK.com)
10.One Song At A Time
11.Floating Away
12.Slow Learner
13.Heavy Up
14.Matchstick Man

BONUS TRACKS IN DELUXE CD

15.Every Heart In The Room
16.Rear View Mirror

BONUS TRACKS IN THE BOX (VINYL)


17.Don’t Suck Me In
18.Sky And Water
19.Pale Imitation

MUSICIANS

Mark Knopfler
Guy Fletcher
Jim Cox
Glenn Worf
Ian Thomas
Nigel Hitchcock
John McCusker
Mike McGoldrick
Danny Cummings
   
GUEST MUSICIANS

Richard Bennett
Robbie McIntosh
Trevor Mires
Tom Walsh

GUEST STARS

Imelda May
Lance Ellington
Kris Drever
Beverley Skeete
Katie Kissoon.


 :thumbsup I missed that. Thanks jbaent:)

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Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 20, 2018, 07:58:35 PM
In the text Richard is mentioned not in the core band but as a guest...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: superval99 on September 20, 2018, 08:04:20 PM
In the text Richard is mentioned not in the core band but as a guest...

On some albums he isn't there at all - Mark plays all the guitars, but maybe Robbie McIntosh is playing instead.   Perhaps Richard will be in the touring band, as usual.   :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on September 20, 2018, 08:07:48 PM
In the text Richard is mentioned not in the core band but as a guest...

Mark got angry because Richard started touring with Neil Diamond again so he's the "guest musician" now :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: IrisRose on September 20, 2018, 09:05:13 PM
jbaent, what did you change/update?   I copied directly (copy/paste) from the official site.   Have they changed it?   This track list is only for US edition, not European.  That might cause confusion.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 20, 2018, 09:32:22 PM
In mk.com, drovers road is not listed in the standard edition, but in the virgin site it is... So being mk.com in Canada, I guess the NA version don't have that song but the European, or the UK one does...

I know it's confusing. That's why I put the remark.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: ustas on September 20, 2018, 09:44:31 PM
In mk.com, drovers road is not listed in the standard edition, but in the virgin site it is... So being mk.com in Canada, I guess the NA version don't have that song but the European, or the UK one does...
I know it's confusing. That's why I put the remark.

There is a press release for US: http://sacksco.com/pr/mark_knopfler.html

The same as previously, but includes "VIA BLUE NOTE" (instead of Virgin/EMI) and track list:

1. Trapper Man
2. Back On The Dance Floor
3. Nobody’s Child
4. Just A Boy Away From Home
5. When You Leave
6. Good On You Son
7. My Bacon Roll
8. Nobody Does That
9. Drovers’ Road*
10. One Song At A Time
11. Floating Away
12. Slow Learner
13. Heavy Up
14. Rear View Mirror*
15. Every Heart In The Room*
16. Matchstick Man
*Deluxe Edition CD bonus tracks

P.S. hi-rez images also available there  http://sacksco.com/photo/hi/mark_knopfler.jpg & http://sacksco.com/photo/hi/mark_knopfler_cover.jpg

P.P.S. http://www.bluenote.com/news/mark-knopfler-down-the-road-wherever
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on September 20, 2018, 09:57:29 PM
P.S. hi-rez images also available there  http://sacksco.com/photo/hi/mark_knopfler.jpg & http://sacksco.com/photo/hi/mark_knopfler_cover.jpg

Thanks for the photo! While loading it I've got a bizarre glitch, take a look:
https://pp.userapi.com/c851428/v851428327/99fb/mV_CYJfLCjY.jpg (https://pp.userapi.com/c851428/v851428327/99fb/mV_CYJfLCjY.jpg)

I can't stop laughing :lol

My question is — Mark, why so serious? One of the grumpiest photos of Mark I've ever seen, even grumpier than this one:
https://pp.userapi.com/c629112/v629112999/35085/KywHeSpszQ4.jpg (https://pp.userapi.com/c629112/v629112999/35085/KywHeSpszQ4.jpg)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: TJ on September 20, 2018, 10:04:52 PM

"VIA BLUE NOTE"


That's interesting.  Blue Note is generally a jazz label.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on September 20, 2018, 10:08:28 PM

"VIA BLUE NOTE"


That's interesting.  Blue Note is generally a jazz label.

Jazz guitar on the picture, now Blue Note... Man, to say I'm excited is to say nothing!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 21, 2018, 02:07:38 AM
The Deluxe Boxed version includes bonus tracks only on a vinyl album? Four songs. I thought about the CD. If four, the CD Deluxe version gives us 15 tracks. I do not understand something :think
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 21, 2018, 07:03:56 AM
The Deluxe Boxed version includes bonus tracks only on a vinyl album? Four songs. I thought about the CD. If four, the CD Deluxe version gives us 15 tracks. I do not understand something :think

What you don't understand?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: ustas on September 21, 2018, 09:46:47 AM
The Deluxe Boxed version includes bonus tracks only on a vinyl album? Four songs. I thought about the CD. If four, the CD Deluxe version gives us 15 tracks. I do not understand something :think

CD standard (Virgin/EMI/Universal 0602567940418, worlwide incl. Canada*) 14 tracks;
CD standard (Blue Note, U.S.?) 13 tracks;
CD deluxe (both worldwide Virgin/EMI/Universal 0602567940425 & U.S. digital only?) - 16 tracks;
2LP standard (Virgin/EMI/Universal 0602567940449)  13 tracks;
Deluxe Box Set (Virgin/EMI/Universal 0602567960584): CD deluxe + 2LP + bonus LP with 4 tracks.

*Canada always is Universal Music territory.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: hunter on September 21, 2018, 09:56:53 AM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: ustas on September 21, 2018, 10:07:34 AM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
It is not first time. Do not forget (for example) Sailing to Philadelphia, there were 3 versions: worldwide, UK & US editions with different track lists.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: hunter on September 21, 2018, 10:35:22 AM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
It is not first time. Do not forget (for example) Sailing to Philadelphia, there were 3 versions: worldwide, UK & US editions with different track lists.

Yeah, I know. It's very strange.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on September 21, 2018, 12:03:57 PM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
It is not first time. Do not forget (for example) Sailing to Philadelphia, there were 3 versions: worldwide, UK & US editions with different track lists.

Yeah, I know. It's very strange.
does not make it any smarter. who is to decide that this one song does not catert to this and that market?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 21, 2018, 12:05:23 PM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
It is not first time. Do not forget (for example) Sailing to Philadelphia, there were 3 versions: worldwide, UK & US editions with different track lists.

Yeah, I know. It's very strange.
does not make it any smarter. who is to decide that this one song does not catert to this and that market?

Same brainy people who decide about the marketing strategies and ended up announced a record that most of the fans already knew about half a week before...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Marnix on September 21, 2018, 12:10:55 PM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
It is not first time. Do not forget (for example) Sailing to Philadelphia, there were 3 versions: worldwide, UK & US editions with different track lists.
What is 3rd version of the STP than. I know the US version got Do America (which was also released as bonustrack on the Silvertown single) instead of One More Matinee
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 21, 2018, 12:18:05 PM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
It is not first time. Do not forget (for example) Sailing to Philadelphia, there were 3 versions: worldwide, UK & US editions with different track lists.
What is 3rd version of the STP than. I know the US version got Do America (which was also released as bonustrack on the Silvertown single) instead of One More Matinee

US version had "Do AMerica" and didn't had "One more matinee"

European version had "One more matinee" and didn´t had "Do America"

UK version had both "Do America" and "One more matinee"
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 21, 2018, 12:19:56 PM
If the Deluxe version has 16 songs, why iDrover's Road repeating in the bonus album? It worries me that this bonus is only in the vinyl version.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 21, 2018, 12:25:44 PM
If the Deluxe version has 16 songs, why iDrover's Road repeating in the bonus album? It worries me that this bonus is only in the vinyl version.

because it didn't fit in the 2lp standard vinyl and they put it as a bonus track in the extra vinyl.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: pamplina on September 21, 2018, 12:29:57 PM
In Wikipedia there's information about the track lengths:

"Trapper Man" 6:00
"Back on the Dance Floor" 5:30
"Nobody's Child" 4:16
"Just a Boy Away from Home" 5:12
"When You Leave" 4:12
"Good on You Son" 5:37
"My Bacon Roll" 5:35
"Nobody Does That" 5:15
"Drovers' Road" 5:05
"One Song at a Time" 6:17
"Floating Away" 5:02
"Slow Learner" 4:34
"Heavy Up" 6:00
"Matchstick Man" 2:52
Total length: 71:27

A long album with a lot of songs longer than 5 minutes.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 21, 2018, 12:31:14 PM
If the Deluxe version has 16 songs, why iDrover's Road repeating in the bonus album? It worries me that this bonus is only in the vinyl version.

because it didn't fit in the 2lp standard vinyl and they put it as a bonus track in the extra vinyl.

I understand. But why the bonus tracks do not give the CD as before
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 21, 2018, 12:35:46 PM
If the Deluxe version has 16 songs, why iDrover's Road repeating in the bonus album? It worries me that this bonus is only in the vinyl version.

because it didn't fit in the 2lp standard vinyl and they put it as a bonus track in the extra vinyl.

I understand. But why the bonus tracks do not give the CD as before

Because this is a LP deluxe box: https://store.markknopfler.com/down-the-road-wherever-2018-deluxe-lp-box-set
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Marnix on September 21, 2018, 12:45:47 PM
I get the point of adapting a product to various markets, but an album? As if an album would sell better in for instance the US by replacing one song at the end. Really?
It is not first time. Do not forget (for example) Sailing to Philadelphia, there were 3 versions: worldwide, UK & US editions with different track lists.
What is 3rd version of the STP than. I know the US version got Do America (which was also released as bonustrack on the Silvertown single) instead of One More Matinee

US version had "Do AMerica" and didn't had "One more matinee"

European version had "One more matinee" and didn´t had "Do America"

UK version had both "Do America" and "One more matinee"


Thnx for this info!!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 21, 2018, 02:18:32 PM
I add the lenghts of the songs, except the three ones of the lp deluxe box.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 21, 2018, 02:22:42 PM
Just to be make things clearer...

Looking at the picture of the lp deluxe box, it looks like the deluxe cd comes into a cardbox... or is it a kind of book?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 21, 2018, 02:34:02 PM
I add the lenghts of the songs, except the three ones of the lp deluxe box.

 :thumbsup

These three will definitely be short

Don’t Suck Me In
Sky And Water
Pale Imitation
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 21, 2018, 06:49:06 PM
Thanks jbaent for asking GF about Tommy Emmanuel. He is not on the new album.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Jasper90 on September 22, 2018, 12:40:32 AM
Thanks jbaent for asking GF about Tommy Emmanuel. He is not on the new album.

Hmm I love Tommy Emmanuel :(. I was really looking foward to hear that. And hoping it would be nicer then the song ended up Tommy Emmanuels album ;D.

But yeah, thanks for asking!
Really looking foward to the new album though  :). I really like Good on you son a lot, it is a great song :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: pamplina on September 26, 2018, 02:48:02 PM
I accidentally landed on a music site called Qobuz.com, where you can click on each track of the album and obtain the complete credits (!!) of it.

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/down-the-road-wherever-mark-knopfler/r6j0qic5ph74b

I've patiently compiled all the info. Enjoy!

 1 Trapper Man

Ian Thomas, Drums
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 2 Back On The Dance Floor

Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 3 Nobody’s Child
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 4 Just A Boy Away From Home
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 5 When You Leave
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Vibraphone, Recording Engineer

 6 Good On You Son
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist

 7 My Bacon Roll
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

 8 Nobody Does That
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Keyboards, Recording Engineer

 9 Drovers’ Road
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

 10 One Song At A Time
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

 11 Floating Away
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 12 Slow Learner
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 13 Heavy Up
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Organ, Recording Engineer

 14 Every Heart In The Room
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

 15 Rear View Mirror
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 16 Matchstick Man
 
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: holaknopfler on September 26, 2018, 02:52:58 PM
And GONE are the whistles and flutes! Two songs I can handle!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: pamplina on September 26, 2018, 03:10:58 PM
And GONE are the whistles and flutes! Two songs I can handle!
Yes. This is by far the most interesting info on this list.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on September 26, 2018, 03:12:36 PM
7 songs with Trumpet is a lot, and 1 with only MK (like Heart of Oak?)

Nigel Hitchcock plays sax on Good on you son, he isn't on the credits here, also missing on the youtube video credits.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: superval99 on September 26, 2018, 03:54:29 PM
7 songs with Trumpet is a lot, and 1 with only MK (like Heart of Oak?)

Nigel Hitchcock plays sax on Good on you son, he isn't on the credits here, also missing on the youtube video credits.

It certainly doesn't sound like a trumpet!   I was sure it was Nigel on sax.   

With three brass instrumentalists, it gives me the feeling of being a jazzy album.  I'm really looking forward to this album - it will be a change from the last albums, I'm sure.   :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: skydiver on September 26, 2018, 04:06:53 PM
Thanks Pamplina for sharing the info!
Also some tracks without synths and quite some without Richard.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: superval99 on September 26, 2018, 04:55:35 PM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on September 26, 2018, 06:01:24 PM
Extremely interesting information indeed.  Two songs with the folkies is fine.  Lots of brass instruments around there.  Matchstick man appears interesting too for maybe a sit-down number during the set.  Excitement building... :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Silvertown on September 26, 2018, 06:03:18 PM
Thanks! I love this part of waiting!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 26, 2018, 06:04:45 PM
Danny with percussion on all tracks apart from Matchstick Man.

I bet the Folkies get their share on the bonus songs  :wave ;D

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 26, 2018, 06:37:26 PM
I am surprised :o  Only two songs with John M. and Michael M.? I thought there would be more folk songs. An album with jazz accents will be created? :think
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 26, 2018, 07:13:37 PM
Maybe it will be more like Sailing To Philadelphia because it is instrumentally very rich.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on September 26, 2018, 07:32:51 PM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: superval99 on September 26, 2018, 07:57:29 PM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Oh thanks!    :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: mschaap on September 26, 2018, 09:05:50 PM
Interesting info about the song credits. Surprised to see Guy isn’t doing any backing vocals, always think his voice works really well as a backing vocal to Mark’s lead.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Stanko on September 26, 2018, 09:06:17 PM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Oh thanks!    :)

good on you superval99 though!
 :thumbsup
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: mschaap on September 26, 2018, 09:20:44 PM
Also interesting to learn that despite they used two ‘other’ guitarists (Richard and Robbie) there turns out to be 7 songs without a second guitar. Moreover, Mark is always credited with guitar but not guitars, though I don’t expect that to be correct.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 26, 2018, 09:29:22 PM
I accidentally landed on a music site called Qobuz.com, where you can click on each track of the album and obtain the complete credits (!!) of it.

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/down-the-road-wherever-mark-knopfler/r6j0qic5ph74b

I've patiently compiled all the info. Enjoy!

 1 Trapper Man

Ian Thomas, Drums
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 2 Back On The Dance Floor

Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 3 Nobody’s Child
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 4 Just A Boy Away From Home
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 5 When You Leave
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Vibraphone, Recording Engineer

 6 Good On You Son
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist

 7 My Bacon Roll
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

 8 Nobody Does That
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Keyboards, Recording Engineer

 9 Drovers’ Road
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

 10 One Song At A Time
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

 11 Floating Away
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 12 Slow Learner
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 13 Heavy Up
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Organ, Recording Engineer

 14 Every Heart In The Room
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

 15 Rear View Mirror
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 16 Matchstick Man
 
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals

It's so great to read your posts Pampli !

Great find.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: cannibals on September 26, 2018, 09:33:31 PM
DC plays percussion on every song. Now i totaly understand why he is in touringband  :thumbsup
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Stanko on September 26, 2018, 09:38:29 PM
I accidentally landed on a music site called Qobuz.com, where you can click on each track of the album and obtain the complete credits (!!) of it.

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/down-the-road-wherever-mark-knopfler/r6j0qic5ph74b

I've patiently compiled all the info. Enjoy!

 1 Trapper Man

Ian Thomas, Drums
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 2 Back On The Dance Floor

Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 3 Nobody’s Child
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 4 Just A Boy Away From Home
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 5 When You Leave
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Vibraphone, Recording Engineer

 6 Good On You Son
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer, Background Vocalist

 7 My Bacon Roll
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

 8 Nobody Does That
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Keyboards, Recording Engineer

 9 Drovers’ Road
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

 10 One Song At A Time
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Danny Cummings, Percussion, Background Vocalist
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
John McCusker, Fiddle
Mike McGoldrick, Whistle

 11 Floating Away
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Imelda May, Background Vocalist
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer

 12 Slow Learner
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 13 Heavy Up
 
Richard Bennett, Guitar
Ian Thomas, Drums
Lance Ellington, Background Vocalist
Beverley Skeete, Background Vocalist
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano, Synthesizer
Katie Kissoon, Background Vocalist
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Trevor Mires, Trombone
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Organ, Recording Engineer

 14 Every Heart In The Room
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Robbie McIntosh, Guitar
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Piano
Danny Cummings, Percussion
Guy Fletcher, Synthesizer
Kris Drever, Background Vocalist

 15 Rear View Mirror
 
Ian Thomas, Drums
Nigel Hitchcock, Tenor Saxophone
Glenn Worf, Bass Guitar
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals
Jim Cox, Organ
Tom Walsh, Trumpet
Danny Cummings, Percussion

 16 Matchstick Man
 
Mark Knopfler, Guitar, Vocals

It's so great to read your posts Pampli !

Great find.
:thumbsup
Thank you Pampli!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Zeraschkulidar on September 26, 2018, 09:50:01 PM
Reading this list it sounds like wind instruments are the new fiddles and pipes :) oh... a pipe is a wind instrument... Just move on ;)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on September 27, 2018, 03:29:22 AM
Maybe it will be more like Sailing To Philadelphia because it is instrumentally very rich.

That would be awesome, I have the same feeling.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 27, 2018, 03:53:06 AM
Maybe it will be more like Sailing To Philadelphia because it is instrumentally very rich.

That would be awesome, I have the same feeling.

 :thumbsup I'm glad I'm not alone:)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: straitsway75 on September 27, 2018, 08:27:31 AM
too much tracks with sax and trombone IMO, I bet in one song at a time and all with no guest sax or pipes, I think that Back on the dance floor will one of the best song of the album...sure will see
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 27, 2018, 08:28:34 AM
I accidentally landed on a music site called Qobuz.com, where you can click on each track of the album and obtain the complete credits (!!) of it.

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/down-the-road-wherever-mark-knopfler/r6j0qic5ph74b

I've patiently compiled all the info. Enjoy!

( )


I have updated the first post with all the information provided by PAMPLINA, MUCHAS GRACIAS PISHA!!!!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: superval99 on September 27, 2018, 09:43:56 AM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Guy says it was a misprint - it is Nigel on sax!     :smack    :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: hunter on September 27, 2018, 09:47:10 AM
Only two songs with fiddle and whistle. Good.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on September 27, 2018, 09:58:12 AM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Guy says it was a misprint - it is Nigel on sax!     :smack    :)

Maybe they 'forgot' to credit John and Mike by most of the tracks too  :lol
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 27, 2018, 10:11:46 AM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Guy says it was a misprint - it is Nigel on sax!     :smack    :)

Maybe they 'forgot' to credit John and Mike by most of the tracks too  :lol

That would be too much mistakes...

I remember Mark Knopfler played bass on "A shot at glory" score but someone forgot to mention it in the booklet.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on September 27, 2018, 12:47:50 PM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Guy says it was a misprint - it is Nigel on sax!     :smack    :)

We've spent a lot of hot air on this before getting the answer!

A lot of brass and Guy credited on synths rather than keyboards too.  Perhaps GOYS is indeed a good sample of the album.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 27, 2018, 12:56:54 PM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Guy says it was a misprint - it is Nigel on sax!     :smack    :)

We've spent a lot of hot air on this before getting the answer!

A lot of brass and Guy credited on synths rather than keyboards too.  Perhaps GOYS is indeed a good sample of the album.

Yes, my guess was always that the single has been chosen very carefully because of this...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: El Macho on September 27, 2018, 02:41:04 PM
MK alone on Matchstick Man
Like River of Grog
That will be a nice ending song. It could be a nice break in the concerts !
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 27, 2018, 02:49:44 PM
MK alone on Matchstick Man
Like River of Grog
That will be a nice ending song. It could be a nice break in the concerts !

I thought about the same. Acoustic album ending?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on September 27, 2018, 02:55:16 PM
MK alone on Matchstick Man
Like River of Grog
That will be a nice ending song. It could be a nice break in the concerts !

I thought about the same. Acoustic album ending?

Honestly I can't see Mark doing something solo on tour, maybe with the Other Keyboard Player™, maybe with Richard, but alone? This is very unlikely.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: El Macho on September 27, 2018, 04:06:32 PM
MK alone on Matchstick Man
Like River of Grog
That will be a nice ending song. It could be a nice break in the concerts !

I thought about the same. Acoustic album ending?

Honestly I can't see Mark doing something solo on tour, maybe with the Other Keyboard Player™, maybe with Richard, but alone? This is very unlikely.

I think we found the new Marbletown !
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 27, 2018, 04:12:43 PM
It could be an electric guitar on Matchstick Man.

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on September 27, 2018, 06:29:00 PM
Just listened to GOYS a few times more and I've come to the conclusion that it is, indeed, a trumpet!  Could have sworn it was a sax, though! ;D

Nigel posted on FB that he played Tenor sax on Good on you son

Guy says it was a misprint - it is Nigel on sax!     :smack    :)

We've spent a lot of hot air on this before getting the answer!

A lot of brass and Guy credited on synths rather than keyboards too.  Perhaps GOYS is indeed a good sample of the album.

Yes, my guess was always that the single has been chosen very carefully because of this...

Was Beryl a sample for Tracker? Not sure, will see
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on September 27, 2018, 06:37:52 PM


A lot of brass and Guy credited on synths rather than keyboards too.  Perhaps GOYS is indeed a good sample of the album.

Yes, my guess was always that the single has been chosen very carefully because of this...

Was Beryl a sample for Tracker? Not sure, will see

Exactly, and that's my point.  The singles usually aren't good samples of the album, however looking at the credits and the fact that Guy and mk.com state the album has somewhat of a direction change I am thinking that perhaps this time it is different.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on September 27, 2018, 06:51:13 PM


A lot of brass and Guy credited on synths rather than keyboards too.  Perhaps GOYS is indeed a good sample of the album.

Yes, my guess was always that the single has been chosen very carefully because of this...

Was Beryl a sample for Tracker? Not sure, will see

Exactly, and that's my point.  The singles usually aren't good samples of the album, however looking at the credits and the fact that Guy and mk.com state the album has somewhat of a direction change I am thinking that perhaps this time it is different.

We have to trust the Doc, I have a good feeling for this album, but at the same time, trumpet doesn’t mean groove or funk, can be remaining memories of the duet with Chris Botti ! Hope no, I want to dance enough sleeping haha
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 27, 2018, 07:09:06 PM
Or stuff like "Say Too Much"... Trumpet, percussion ..

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 27, 2018, 07:41:57 PM
I do not know the announcements are reliable but: The album stays true to the folk and roots-inflected ambience of his solo material, but introduces new elements of jazz, funk and even a hint of the rockier leanings of earlier days...

And yet: unhurriedly elegant
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on September 27, 2018, 08:35:43 PM
Apple Music says "coming October 26" :think: https://pp.userapi.com/c850620/v850620430/10358/CxLzZLe63dQ.jpg (https://pp.userapi.com/c850620/v850620430/10358/CxLzZLe63dQ.jpg)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 27, 2018, 08:48:53 PM
What does "PRE-release" mean together with this date?

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: primi on September 27, 2018, 09:02:14 PM
...... I think that Back on the dance floor will one of the best song of the album...sure will see

I have my hopes high for this one as well.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 27, 2018, 09:55:43 PM
What does "PRE-release" mean together with this date?

LE

Maybe Apple music have an exclusive?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on September 27, 2018, 10:42:59 PM
What does "PRE-release" mean together with this date?

LE

Maybe Apple music have an exclusive?

That means that you can PRE-listen 1 track hence the pre-release thing. But the date is right, Apple Music can't be wrong, right? So it's Oct 26.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on September 27, 2018, 10:49:06 PM
UPDATE: Apple Music has changed the date to November, 16 :lol
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 28, 2018, 08:19:46 AM
UPDATE: Apple Music has changed the date to November, 16 :lol

Doh! :smack
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: ustas on September 28, 2018, 10:46:27 AM
I do not know, may be it has been posted previously:


Mark Knopfler

Down The Road Wherever

Ask Mark Knopfler to explain the title of his ninth solo studio album and he will tell you that Down The Road Wherever is a line from one of the tracks: “One Song At A Time.” He'll give the credit for that title phrase to a sadly departed friend with whom he shared a lifelong love of songwriting and guitar playing, and their endless potential to change lives.

“I remember my pal Chet Atkins once saying that he picked his way out of poverty one song at a time, and it just stuck in my mind,” says Mark. “You get to an age where it is a few songs. But Down The Road Wherever seems to be appropriate, just because it’s what I’ve always done. I’ve always tried to keep my own geography happening in the songs, that applies there as well.” In “One Song At A Time” that autobiographical geography pinpoints Deptford, England, where the up-and-coming Dire Straits began to make their way, one song at a time.

The unassuming spirit of the itinerant songsmith is still Knopfler’s pilot light, inextinguishable through more than 40 years at the absolute pinnacle of his profession. Down The Road Wherever is the latest, elegant evidence of that steadfast hunger, a bold and often surprising songbook of 14 selections (more on the deluxe editions) boiled down from twice as many that went into the workshop.

Mark’s apparently limitless creativity was further extended by simultaneous compositions for the upcoming Local Hero musical. That’s a subject close to his heart too, as the 1983 movie version became his first of several soundtrack projects and included the talismanic instrumental theme “Going Home,” to which his beloved Newcastle United still take the field.

Just as with its 2015 predecessor Tracker and others before it, Down The Road Wherever was created at Knopfler’s own West London recording space, British Grove Studios. Instrumental compadres include longtime collaborators such as co-producer and keyboardist Guy Fletcher, bass player Glenn Worf, pianist Jim Cox, guitarist Richard Bennett, drummer Ian “Ianto” Thomas and percussionist Danny Cummings. Mark’s ten-year association with top folk players John McCusker (fiddle) and Michael McGoldrick (whistles) continues, while additions to the group include saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock and Tom Walsh on trumpet.

As ever, Knopfler found that the pleasure of birthing a new song is complemented by the process of what to do with it. “I enjoy the whole thing, of being inspired to write something, of working on it at home, writing it, and then taking it to a studio to try to make it work as a record,” he says. “I’ve got to make a decision as well: shall I just bring it here (to British Grove) and work on it on my own, or should I take it straight to the band? Because it’ll be a different thing if you do that. So you’re trying to decide which school to send your child to.”

Female backing vocals also abound on several tracks, along with a notable name on the door for “Back On The Dancefloor” in the form of Irish force of nature Imelda May. “It was great to have Imelda on that song, I think she’s fantastic,” says Knopfler. “She really did add a lot of color to it. She’s so creative, and that was fun. It’s a kind of a mystery song to me but I like it, that’s one of my favorites.”

“Female backing vocals are something that was going to happen. [I’ve] probably been meaning to feature that for a long time. And I’ve been enjoying having the brass element in quite a lot of the songs. When I go out on tour, I’m thinking I’ll have the elements I’ve always had but add brass to the line-up. It’ll just be more people on the bus.”

Longtime fans of this giant among singer-songwriter guitar heroes will note some palpable changes of mood on Down The Road Wherever, which stays true to the folk and roots-inflected ambience of his solo oeuvre but introduces new elements of jazz, funk and even a hint of the rockier leanings of earlier days.

“It will be different because whether you want to or not, you develop,” says Knopfler. “That’s just what happens. Sometimes the songs will tell you after you’re done, what it is you’ve been doing wrong, or where you’ve been going. So that’s a never-ending source of amusement. You can even find out from doing them what they’re about, or what you’ve been thinking about, perhaps.”

Other sonic surprises include the sparse and deeply romantic ballad “When You Leave” and the playful “Heavy Up,” inspired by a fellow songwriter who told Mark that his response to being told to “lighten up” was “I’ll lighten up for you if you’ll heavy up for me.” There is further inspiration from close to home in “Just A Boy Away From Home,” which rose from a memory back home in Newcastle, when his father was in hospital after a heart attack.
“He was in Newcastle General, which as anyone from the Northeast of England will know is very close to the football ground. He was lying awake in the middle of the night feeling a bit sorry for himself, and he heard a lad walking on the deserted street outside singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone.’ Of course, he was a Liverpool fan and he’d been to the match—or who knows, he might have missed it somehow. But there he was in Newcastle singing his song. My dad found it inspiring, the spirit of it.” The track includes a full, stirring reprise of the famous melody. “It just felt good to play it on the slide,” says Mark. “I thought, ‘I’ve started, so I may as well finish.’ And it’s fun for the band to play.”

The completion of another momentous entry in Knopfler’s catalogue is the prelude to another joy of his life: the chance to perform some of it along with his endless supply of classic songs on the road. “You do find yourself thinking about being on a stage and playing a song,” he says. “I’ll be thinking about everybody, about having Mike McGoldrick and John McCusker, the folk musicians, as part of some songs, and Nigel and Tom as part of the brass thing on others. I’m looking forward to it.”

Down The Road Wherever concludes with “Matchstick Man,” another personal memory that poignantly captures Mark Knopfler as he was, and as he remains. “That’s me,” he confesses readily, “a young idiot with a guitar and a bag, climbing up into trucks and hitchhiking. I was trying to get back from a Christmas Eve gig in Penzance early on Christmas Day. I thought I’d hitch home. I don’t think I really knew it was 500 miles from there.”

“I got a lift up the old A1 and he let me off at a high crossroads in the Midlands. The sun was shining, there was snow everywhere and I could see for miles. There was nothing moving anywhere. I’m standing there with my guitar case and bag and this realization of what I’d chosen to do with my life. To me, it was exactly what I wanted to do. It’s just a snapshot of me then. From the air I would have been a tiny matchstick figure in this vastness of snow with his dream of being a musician.”

“You need some energy to make these things happen,” he concludes. “You’re not going to last if you haven’t got enough to get you through all the tougher times. I feel the same way I always felt. When I come in here and I see a couple of guitars in the corner, I get the same buzz that I had when I was a kid, and you’ve got to have that. It’s almost a childish attitude that keeps you fired up about turning up.”
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 28, 2018, 11:13:47 AM
No they haven't, at least not that extended.
Thank you very much ustas, really some valuable and touching Information. Great!

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: superval99 on September 28, 2018, 11:23:38 AM
Thanks, ustas!   I haven't read all of this before.   

It was interesting to read that MK is Matchstick Man, stuck in the snow on his way home from Penzance.   Also, I haven't heard the story about his father being in hospital, hearing the Liverpool anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone" before.   

I'm really looking forward to hearing all of these new songs, but I must be patient!    :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 28, 2018, 11:38:05 AM
Thanks Ustas. Information added to the first page with some remarks in bold and underline to make it easier to first sight.

Yes, we were right about "One song at a time" being about the Deptford days  ;D

Lot of information to start talking about the meaning of the songs already!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on September 28, 2018, 12:37:28 PM
Lots of very interesting stuff in there to mull over.  Cheers.  I have a good feeling about this one.

Interesting to hear about his Dad suffering a heart attack.  This will be a particularly passionate one for him.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 28, 2018, 12:41:40 PM
And more news. Beautiful. Thanks ustas.  :)

Other sonic surprises include the sparse and deeply romantic ballad “When You Leave”

I'm very curious
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on September 28, 2018, 01:07:08 PM
Thank you Ustas, awesome
Back to the dance floor guys, he’s back.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on September 28, 2018, 03:00:50 PM
thnx Ustas.
Finally some new insights into our man.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Jasper90 on September 28, 2018, 03:52:58 PM
Thx Ustas! Nice new info and a nice read! :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: neco on September 28, 2018, 04:48:28 PM
I hope he does not „overuse“ the slide guitar (which he did,in my opinion, on tracker). I‘d really loved to hear more of his beautiful Les Paul sound
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: hunter on September 28, 2018, 06:36:43 PM
I have expectations for this album. Love the personal touches (per the interview above). Also looking forward to the jazzy and rockier elements.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Justme on September 28, 2018, 08:03:41 PM
Wow, just wow. Thank you.  :wave
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on September 29, 2018, 03:15:46 PM
I don't know if I had to post here or in the "new album" thread  :think

on FB, a french guy shared in a DS/MK dedicated group that he had the chance to listen to the full album once (because he's journalist and had a listiening link, avalaible for 3 days only)

I try to translate his thoughts on the album in general. forgive me for my bad enlish translation.

- "suprising sonorities" less folkish, less irish
- more rhythm, more "driven"
- brass sounds, female backgorund vocals
- first 2 songs immediately caught him, far more than all Tracker songs
- lot of potential for live gigs

someone asked him if there were guitar-oriented songs, and he answered : yes some cool parts

I don't know him personnally, so I don't know exactly what to think about this thougts, and he said that he listened to it only once, so...

but I think that we can bet for sure that this album is different from Tracker..
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 29, 2018, 04:07:16 PM
Longtime fans of this giant among singer-songwriter guitar heroes will note some palpable changes of mood on Down The Road Wherever, which stays true to the folk and roots-inflected ambience of his solo oeuvre but introduces new elements of jazz, funk and even a hint of the rockier leanings of earlier days.

“It will be different because whether you want to or not, you develop,” says Knopfler. “That’s just what happens. Sometimes the songs will tell you after you’re done, what it is you’ve been doing wrong, or where you’ve been going. So that’s a never-ending source of amusement. You can even find out from doing them what they’re about, or what you’ve been thinking about, perhaps.”
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 29, 2018, 04:46:23 PM
Longtime fans of this giant among singer-songwriter guitar heroes will note some palpable changes of mood on Down The Road Wherever, which stays true to the folk and roots-inflected ambience of his solo oeuvre but introduces new elements of jazz, funk and even a hint of the rockier leanings of earlier days.

“It will be different because whether you want to or not, you develop,” says Knopfler. “That’s just what happens. Sometimes the songs will tell you after you’re done, what it is you’ve been doing wrong, or where you’ve been going. So that’s a never-ending source of amusement. You can even find out from doing them what they’re about, or what you’ve been thinking about, perhaps.”

And this comes from where?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 29, 2018, 05:00:49 PM
I just wanted to remind this part as a comment to what JF wrote
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 29, 2018, 05:02:30 PM
I just wanted to remind this part as a comment to what JF wrote

And that comes from where?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on September 29, 2018, 05:08:40 PM
I do not know what you mean. It's promotional material from ustas. Wake up:)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on September 29, 2018, 08:19:55 PM
I do not know what you mean. It's promotional material from ustas. Wake up:)

Now you understood the question and what's more important, your answer was easy to understand.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Leprechaun on September 30, 2018, 08:04:22 AM
I don't know if I had to post here or in the "new album" thread  :think

on FB, a french guy shared in a DS/MK dedicated group that he had the chance to listen to the full album once (because he's journalist and had a listiening link, avalaible for 3 days only)

I try to translate his thoughts on the album in general. forgive me for my bad enlish translation.

- "suprising sonorities" less folkish, less irish
- more rhythm, more "driven"
- brass sounds, female backgorund vocals
- first 2 songs immediately caught him, far more than all Tracker songs
- lot of potential for live gigs

someone asked him if there were guitar-oriented songs, and he answered : yes some cool parts

I don't know him personnally, so I don't know exactly what to think about this thougts, and he said that he listened to it only once, so...

but I think that we can bet for sure that this album is different from Tracker..

Can you please post a link to the mentioned MK dedicated FB group? I did not know about it :think
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on September 30, 2018, 08:32:00 AM
Astonishing that the Journalist links are spread so early?

To be honest most of it could be said already from what we knew before.

I am extremely curious about Trapper Man now.

Plus how on Earth did he listen to it once only having had the link for three days!!!  :smack  :lol

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on September 30, 2018, 12:06:31 PM
More information about the album sneaking out that makes me look forward to it even more!  Thanks JF. 

I attended a lecture (of sorts) at St Cecilia's Hall in Edinburgh yesterday from the University of Edinburgh.  The reason being was because the lecture was on brass instruments, very apt for the forthcoming album!  Apparently St Cecilia’s Hall is the only venue in the world where it is possible to hear 18th century musical instruments played in an 18th century concert hall.

I never realised the trumpet only came into being due to the invention of the steam engine and until then the performer had to add a crook to their instrument to change the key during the course of the song!  This has given me a real appreciation of brass instruments and I am relishing them even more now.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 01, 2018, 11:04:34 AM
Thanks for finding and posting all this background info, guys! So interesting.

And now that journalists already got a link, it can only be a matter of days until the whole thing leaks somewhere ...  :o
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 01, 2018, 11:33:43 AM
Thanks for finding and posting all this background info, guys! So interesting.

And now that journalists already got a link, it can only be a matter of days until the whole thing leaks somewhere ...  :o

I don't think any journalist got any link, I think that person is lying...

Why? Because I have a friend who has access to that links because of his work and MK record hasn't appeared yet. Only the single and it lasted three days.

So maybe that person just listened to the single and generalized that sound to all the record, or that person is lying.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 01, 2018, 11:44:19 AM
Thanks for finding and posting all this background info, guys! So interesting.

And now that journalists already got a link, it can only be a matter of days until the whole thing leaks somewhere ...  :o

I don't think any journalist got any link, I think that person is lying...

Why? Because I have a friend who has access to that links because of his work and MK record hasn't appeared yet. Only the single and it lasted three days.

So maybe that person just listened to the single and generalized that sound to all the record, or that person is lying.

I don't think anybody lied. Actually, I just found the first download links online. Illegal, of course, and I'm not yet sure whether any of them will work, but the album's definitely leaked. As it would, inevitably. I'll try and find a working link when I have the time, and it listen to it later this week (when I have even more time  :D). Oh, and yes, of course I'll also BUY it as soon as that's possible.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 01, 2018, 11:54:51 AM
Thanks for finding and posting all this background info, guys! So interesting.

And now that journalists already got a link, it can only be a matter of days until the whole thing leaks somewhere ...  :o

I don't think any journalist got any link, I think that person is lying...

Why? Because I have a friend who has access to that links because of his work and MK record hasn't appeared yet. Only the single and it lasted three days.

So maybe that person just listened to the single and generalized that sound to all the record, or that person is lying.

I don't think anybody lied. Actually, I just found the first download links online. Illegal, of course, and I'm not yet sure whether any of them will work, but the album's definitely leaked. As it would, inevitably. I'll try and find a working link when I have the time, and it listen to it later this week (when I have even more time  :D). Oh, and yes, of course I'll also BUY it as soon as that's possible.

Haha, no, I

I also found many illegal download links when Tracker, 99% fake, many of them you had the give a credit card, beware...

Record companies changed the system, they don't send cd's anymore, they have an internal website where they put the releases and you have to be credited to listen to that music they put in their site. Those songs have a watermark that points to your user so if there is a leak, they have a guilty.

When Tracker came out in that website my friend tried to capture it to me, and due to the watermark was impossible as the sound went up and down and noisy. That system really works and avoid the leaks.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 01, 2018, 12:03:03 PM
Thanks for finding and posting all this background info, guys! So interesting.

And now that journalists already got a link, it can only be a matter of days until the whole thing leaks somewhere ...  :o

I don't think any journalist got any link, I think that person is lying...

Why? Because I have a friend who has access to that links because of his work and MK record hasn't appeared yet. Only the single and it lasted three days.

So maybe that person just listened to the single and generalized that sound to all the record, or that person is lying.

I don't think anybody lied. Actually, I just found the first download links online. Illegal, of course, and I'm not yet sure whether any of them will work, but the album's definitely leaked. As it would, inevitably. I'll try and find a working link when I have the time, and it listen to it later this week (when I have even more time  :D). Oh, and yes, of course I'll also BUY it as soon as that's possible.

Haha, no, I

I also found many illegal download links when Tracker, 99% fake, many of them you had the give a credit card, beware...

Record companies changed the system, they don't send cd's anymore, they have an internal website where they put the releases and you have to be credited to listen to that music they put in their site. Those songs have a watermark that points to your user so if there is a leak, they have a guilty.

When Tracker came out in that website my friend tried to capture it to me, and due to the watermark was impossible as the sound went up and down and noisy. That system really works and avoid the leaks.

Interesting ... we'll see. One of the links I found so far was working – I could download the album - but it comes with a password, and to get that, you'd have to submit a working email address. Which of course I won't. But it shows that the album's out. All previous albums leaked long before the actual release date, so I suppose we'll have this one pretty soon, too.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 01, 2018, 12:04:11 PM
Thanks for finding and posting all this background info, guys! So interesting.

And now that journalists already got a link, it can only be a matter of days until the whole thing leaks somewhere ...  :o

I don't think any journalist got any link, I think that person is lying...

Why? Because I have a friend who has access to that links because of his work and MK record hasn't appeared yet. Only the single and it lasted three days.

So maybe that person just listened to the single and generalized that sound to all the record, or that person is lying.

I don't think anybody lied. Actually, I just found the first download links online. Illegal, of course, and I'm not yet sure whether any of them will work, but the album's definitely leaked. As it would, inevitably. I'll try and find a working link when I have the time, and it listen to it later this week (when I have even more time  :D). Oh, and yes, of course I'll also BUY it as soon as that's possible.

Haha, no, I

I also found many illegal download links when Tracker, 99% fake, many of them you had the give a credit card, beware...

Record companies changed the system, they don't send cd's anymore, they have an internal website where they put the releases and you have to be credited to listen to that music they put in their site. Those songs have a watermark that points to your user so if there is a leak, they have a guilty.

When Tracker came out in that website my friend tried to capture it to me, and due to the watermark was impossible as the sound went up and down and noisy. That system really works and avoid the leaks.

Interesting ... we'll see. One of the links I found so far was working – I could download the album - but it comes with a password, and to get that, you'd have to submit a working email address. Which of course I won't. But it shows that the album's out. All previous albums leaked long before the actual release date, so I suppose we'll have this one pretty soon, too.

And if you provide an e-mail, then you will have to provide a credit card etc

beware

fake links.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 01, 2018, 12:45:32 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 01, 2018, 01:50:32 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.

Yeah, I know that site. I was able to download a zip file containing 16 correctly-named songs, as it seems. But they are password-protected. I tend to believe they the really ARE the songs, though, which is why I expect a non-protected download soon. Once some people have the files, it's hard to control them.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 01, 2018, 01:56:34 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.

Yeah, I know that site. I was able to download a zip file containing 16 correctly-named songs, as it seems. But they are password-protected. I tend to believe they the really ARE the songs, though, which is why I expect a non-protected download soon. Once some people have the files, it's hard to control them.

Try to put one of those prepayment credit card number withouth any cash in it  ;D
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on October 01, 2018, 02:15:50 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.

Yeah, I know that site. I was able to download a zip file containing 16 correctly-named songs, as it seems. But they are password-protected. I tend to believe they the really ARE the songs, though, which is why I expect a non-protected download soon. Once some people have the files, it's hard to control them.

Virus alert, watch out...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 01, 2018, 02:21:45 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.

Yeah, I know that site. I was able to download a zip file containing 16 correctly-named songs, as it seems. But they are password-protected. I tend to believe they the really ARE the songs, though, which is why I expect a non-protected download soon. Once some people have the files, it's hard to control them.

Virus alert, watch out...

That's another of the risks of those fake downloads...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 01, 2018, 03:08:13 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.

Yeah, I know that site. I was able to download a zip file containing 16 correctly-named songs, as it seems. But they are password-protected. I tend to believe they the really ARE the songs, though, which is why I expect a non-protected download soon. Once some people have the files, it's hard to control them.

Virus alert, watch out...

That's another of the risks of those fake downloads...

I know, but I think I know when to be alerted by now, and when to stop. I've download several albums from rather dodgy-looking sites in the past because I didn't want to wait for the official release date, and never caught any viruses. I'd never give away real email addresses, though, let alone credit-card details. And I'm not really interested in "stealing" something. I'm happy to pay for whatever music I listen to, and I will. Mark, in particular, got quite a bit of money from me over the years ;). But I just want to hear his new album as soon as I can, no matter how.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on October 01, 2018, 03:17:04 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.

Yeah, I know that site. I was able to download a zip file containing 16 correctly-named songs, as it seems. But they are password-protected. I tend to believe they the really ARE the songs, though, which is why I expect a non-protected download soon. Once some people have the files, it's hard to control them.

Virus alert, watch out...

That's another of the risks of those fake downloads...

I know, but I think I know when to be alerted by now, and when to stop. I've download several albums from rather dodgy-looking sites in the past because I didn't want to wait for the official release date, and never caught any viruses. I'd never give away real email addresses, though, let alone credit-card details. And I'm not really interested in "stealing" something. I'm happy to pay for whatever music I listen to, and I will. Mark, in particular, got quite a bit of money from me over the years ;). But I just want to hear his new album as soon as I can, no matter how.
Tell me when you have found it ;)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: herlock on October 01, 2018, 03:31:10 PM
If the album is REALLY leaked, you will see that it's leaked here:

https://hasitleaked.com/?s=knopfler++down+the+road+wherever

I used this site for several releases and it's always right when they say something has leaked.

Yeah, I know that site. I was able to download a zip file containing 16 correctly-named songs, as it seems. But they are password-protected. I tend to believe they the really ARE the songs, though, which is why I expect a non-protected download soon. Once some people have the files, it's hard to control them.

Virus alert, watch out...

That's another of the risks of those fake downloads...

I know, but I think I know when to be alerted by now, and when to stop. I've download several albums from rather dodgy-looking sites in the past because I didn't want to wait for the official release date, and never caught any viruses. I'd never give away real email addresses, though, let alone credit-card details. And I'm not really interested in "stealing" something. I'm happy to pay for whatever music I listen to, and I will. Mark, in particular, got quite a bit of money from me over the years ;). But I just want to hear his new album as soon as I can, no matter how.
100% agree, same philosophy here.
Please let me know also when the leak is available :)
And I swear, I will buy it in its most expensive edition, as I have always done !
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 01, 2018, 03:37:23 PM
Can you please post a link to the mentioned MK dedicated FB group? I did not know about it :think

it's a closed french group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/direstraitsandmk/


@Jbaent I don't know the guy pesonnally, but I don't think he lies

I am not a journalist but via my work I emailed this morning at mercury, and they replied that I will have a link soon
of course you'll understand that I won't leak it here, but I hope I wil be able to listen to the album very soon (ok you can call me Guy Fletcher now  ;D :lol)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 01, 2018, 04:18:56 PM
Can you please post a link to the mentioned MK dedicated FB group? I did not know about it :think

it's a closed french group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/direstraitsandmk/


@Jbaent I don't know the guy pesonnally, but I don't think he lies

I am not a journalist but via my work I emailed this morning at mercury, and they replied that I will have a link soon
of course you'll understand that I won't leak it here, but I hope I wil be able to listen to the album very soon (ok you can call Guy flectcehr now  ;D :lol)

Why should I do something so idiotic?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 01, 2018, 04:34:37 PM
Can you please post a link to the mentioned MK dedicated FB group? I did not know about it :think

it's a closed french group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/direstraitsandmk/


@Jbaent I don't know the guy pesonnally, but I don't think he lies

I am not a journalist but via my work I emailed this morning at mercury, and they replied that I will have a link soon
of course you'll understand that I won't leak it here, but I hope I wil be able to listen to the album very soon (ok you can call Guy flectcehr now  ;D :lol)

Why should I do something so idiotic?

sorry don't understand exactly what you mean, but I was refering to the post where you said that the guy was lying. I don't think it's the case

oh I just read my post again, and I was meaning "you can call ME Guy Fletcher now"  ;D (because of the "Soon" word of course
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 01, 2018, 05:18:12 PM
Maybe this was answered here before, but does anyone know why the song order is TOTALLY different on the vinyl albums? Very strange. I don't think that's ever been the case in the past, and I can't see any reason for it.  :think
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 01, 2018, 06:12:15 PM
I have the album. I will listen to it this evening and will report later.... :P 8)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: cannibals on October 01, 2018, 06:14:02 PM
I have the album. I will listen to it this evening and will report later.... :P 8)

 :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: tobi777 on October 01, 2018, 06:22:01 PM
Maybe this was answered here before, but does anyone know why the song order is TOTALLY different on the vinyl albums? Very strange. I don't think that's ever been the case in the past, and I can't see any reason for it.  :think

One reason might be that the running order on a CD doesn't matter, technically - but on a LP it does very much.
As the needle gets closer to the center of the record the sampling speed is slowly being reduced and that has an influence on the sound quality.
Songs with a high dynamic range thus should be placed at the beginning of the groove. In the past the running order of many records was not only determined by the limited time per side but also because of this.
I guess this topic is rather being neglected by producers nowadays - but MK and GF seem to be quite audiophile.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: straitsway75 on October 01, 2018, 06:33:14 PM
I have the album. I will listen to it this evening and will report later.... :P 8)
Enviable
 :thumbsup
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: naif on October 01, 2018, 06:34:53 PM
I have the album. I will listen to it this evening and will report later.... :P 8)

Are you serious????
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 01, 2018, 06:50:38 PM
Yes I am totally seriou
I am listening to it right now and ....wooww 8) :o
and it does sound very very very damn good !
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Silvertown on October 01, 2018, 06:54:26 PM
I have the album. I will listen to it this evening and will report later.... :P 8)

:D
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: naif on October 01, 2018, 07:06:53 PM
Yes I am totally seriou
I am listening to it right now and ....wooww 8) :o
and it does sound very very very damn good !

and waiting for the detailed review!! İ mean song by song please...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 01, 2018, 07:32:28 PM
many people ask me to send the album
 I'm sorry but I can't.
it's a professionnal link I got from my job, and I don't want to have any problem, I m sure you all will understand
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: naif on October 01, 2018, 07:35:04 PM
many people ask me to send the album
 I'm sorry but I can't.
it's a professionnal link I got from my job, and I don't want to have any problem, I m sure you all will understand

Of course you're right. tell us more about the album, style, musicality, sonicly, lyrics... anything  :P
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 01, 2018, 07:46:46 PM
many people ask me to send the album
 I'm sorry but I can't.
it's a professionnal link I got from my job, and I don't want to have any problem, I m sure you all will understand

Of course you're right. tell us more about the album, style, musicality, sonicly, lyrics... anything  :P

yes later this evening. I just finished to listen
Wil try to write something tonight
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on October 01, 2018, 07:55:46 PM
many people ask me to send the album
 I'm sorry but I can't.
it's a professionnal link I got from my job, and I don't want to have any problem, I m sure you all will understand

Of course you're right. tell us more about the album, style, musicality, sonicly, lyrics... anything  :P

yes later this evening. I just finished to listen
Wil try to write something tonight

If you do so, may I suggest to maybe open a new thread ("First Impressions"or whatever) and PLEASE use a heavy SPOILER as I am not sure if everybody really wants to know such Details already ... very appreciated if you do the hard work for us though.

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: hunter on October 01, 2018, 09:20:14 PM
many people ask me to send the album
 I'm sorry but I can't.
it's a professionnal link I got from my job, and I don't want to have any problem, I m sure you all will understand

Of course you're right. tell us more about the album, style, musicality, sonicly, lyrics... anything  :P

yes later this evening. I just finished to listen
Wil try to write something tonight

Looking forward to reading about your impressions.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 01, 2018, 09:31:06 PM

If you do so, may I suggest to maybe open a new thread ("First Impressions"or whatever) and PLEASE use a heavy SPOILER as I am not sure if everybody really wants to know such Details already ... very appreciated if you do the hard work for us though.

LE

yes of course LE I tought to do this way  :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on October 01, 2018, 09:37:49 PM
I love the way you analyze Mark's music ever since and find a lot similiarties with my own views vetd often and therefore I am looking forward to your first  thoughts very much. Isn't it great to have this seven weeks before release ...

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: quizzaciously on October 01, 2018, 09:50:34 PM
I love the way you analyze Mark's music ever since and find a lot similiarties with my own views vetd often and therefore I am looking forward to your first  thoughts very much. Isn't it great to have this seven weeks before release ...

LE

I think that reading about music is like dancing about architecture, although in that particular case it will be interesting!

JF, don't forget to tell about how many fancy chords are there :lol
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on October 02, 2018, 06:12:21 AM
Thanks for finding and posting all this background info, guys! So interesting.

And now that journalists already got a link, it can only be a matter of days until the whole thing leaks somewhere ...  :o

I don't think any journalist got any link, I think that person is lying...

Why? Because I have a friend who has access to that links because of his work and MK record hasn't appeared yet. Only the single and it lasted three days.

So maybe that person just listened to the single and generalized that sound to all the record, or that person is lying.
Do not think so. Too unimportant to lie about

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Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 02, 2018, 01:29:18 PM
Maybe this was answered here before, but does anyone know why the song order is TOTALLY different on the vinyl albums? Very strange. I don't think that's ever been the case in the past, and I can't see any reason for it.  :think

One reason might be that the running order on a CD doesn't matter, technically - but on a LP it does very much.
As the needle gets closer to the center of the record the sampling speed is slowly being reduced and that has an influence on the sound quality.
Songs with a high dynamic range thus should be placed at the beginning of the groove. In the past the running order of many records was not only determined by the limited time per side but also because of this.
I guess this topic is rather being neglected by producers nowadays - but MK and GF seem to be quite audiophile.

Interesting, thanks, Tobi. Interesting also that on previous LPs - as far as I can remember - they never paid attention to this and the running order was the same as on CDs.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 02, 2018, 01:43:24 PM
MK has already started the interviews to promote his new record. Spanish journalist Paula Baena, from Efe Noticias post a tweet yesterday interviewing MK in London

https://twitter.com/Paulabaena26/status/1046773714996645888
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on October 02, 2018, 02:22:25 PM
MK has already started the interviews to promote his new record. Spanish journalist Paula Baena, from Efe Noticias post a tweet yesterday interviewing MK in London

https://twitter.com/Paulabaena26/status/1046773714996645888

Yes. I saw this photo yesterday.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 02, 2018, 02:24:50 PM
MK has already started the interviews to promote his new record. Spanish journalist Paula Baena, from Efe Noticias post a tweet yesterday interviewing MK in London

https://twitter.com/Paulabaena26/status/1046773714996645888

Yes. I saw this photo yesterday.

The journalist said that the interview will be released when the record comes out.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on October 02, 2018, 02:39:07 PM
I wanted to ask when the interview will be available ;) I wonder if he was long ?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: pitx on October 02, 2018, 09:07:34 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odohR3pG_6c
http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2018/10/02/mark-knopfler-al-festival-imaginaction_d6049297-2224-4e1b-9896-0d6b6413fbf2.html
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 02, 2018, 10:05:15 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odohR3pG_6c
http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2018/10/02/mark-knopfler-al-festival-imaginaction_d6049297-2224-4e1b-9896-0d6b6413fbf2.html

What's that and what that music is?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: PensaGhost on October 03, 2018, 12:24:37 AM
just a promo interview in italy in about 10 days
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: allen on October 03, 2018, 06:21:44 AM
Mark will be in Italy on the 12th of October. He will be a special guest at IMAGinACTION, the international video clip festival to be held in Cesena from 12 to 14 October.

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2018/10/02/mark-knopfler-al-festival-imaginaction_d6049297-2224-4e1b-9896-0d6b6413fbf2.html
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: darkshiver on October 04, 2018, 11:15:05 PM
So far I could find five promo pictures of a very very very serious Mark. Has anyone find more pictures?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: darkshiver on October 04, 2018, 11:15:40 PM
last one
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 04, 2018, 11:25:56 PM
I used the only one with a smile

https://www.facebook.com/TextBlogRNRoll/photos/a.466076817226091/474439946389778/?type=3&theater
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rolleyway Man on October 05, 2018, 11:59:55 AM
Ken Bruce has just announced that Mark will be playing a live session in the Radio 2 Piano Room later this month. Looking forward to hearing that. I should imagine he’ll be playing some stripped down arrangements of the songs.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 05, 2018, 01:12:03 PM
I used the only one with a smile

https://www.facebook.com/TextBlogRNRoll/photos/a.466076817226091/474439946389778/?type=3&theater

This one :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 05, 2018, 01:12:46 PM
Ken Bruce has just announced that Mark will be playing a live session in the Radio 2 Piano Room later this month. Looking forward to hearing that. I should imagine he’ll be playing some stripped down arrangements of the songs.

Great! Looking forward to it!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on October 05, 2018, 03:09:19 PM
Ken Bruce has just announced that Mark will be playing a live session in the Radio 2 Piano Room later this month. Looking forward to hearing that. I should imagine he’ll be playing some stripped down arrangements of the songs.

Excellent!  These are usually pretty good and I still listen to the one he did promoting the S-L album.  Very nice version of Everybody Pays.  4 songs they played that showcase with what was a 4-piece band if I recall.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 05, 2018, 03:48:46 PM

This one :)

Yes  :)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Justme on October 06, 2018, 08:43:10 PM
Folks - forgive me, if it had been discussed before. I was wondering what box/set/whatever contains all 20 (?) released songs. Is it this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Road-Wherever-VINYL-Knopfler/dp/B07GVXDZHS/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538851031&sr=1-2&keywords=mark+knopfler+Down+The+Road+Wherever (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Road-Wherever-VINYL-Knopfler/dp/B07GVXDZHS/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538851031&sr=1-2&keywords=mark+knopfler+Down+The+Road+Wherever)

This one should contain 1 CD, 2 LPs, 1 Single 12".


Thanks for your input.  :wave
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: straitsway75 on October 06, 2018, 08:52:00 PM
Folks - forgive me, if it had been discussed before. I was wondering what box/set/whatever contains all 20 (?) released songs. Is it this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Road-Wherever-VINYL-Knopfler/dp/B07GVXDZHS/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538851031&sr=1-2&keywords=mark+knopfler+Down+The+Road+Wherever (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Road-Wherever-VINYL-Knopfler/dp/B07GVXDZHS/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538851031&sr=1-2&keywords=mark+knopfler+Down+The+Road+Wherever)

This one should contain 1 CD, 2 LPs, 1 Single 12".


Thanks for your input.  :wave

yes
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on October 06, 2018, 08:54:25 PM
Song 20 Back in the Day just turned up today via the lyrics that were released from official source.  We know nothing more about it until now. Could be one of those iTunes/Media Markt/Amazon sort of exklusive track, but we have no Information yet.

The other 19 songs are in the big deluxe box, but be aware that three of the bonus songs (Don't suck me in, Sky and Water, Pale Imitation) are only available on vinyl. If the download code that's within the box contains also these three songs in digital format, we also do not know yet.

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Justme on October 06, 2018, 10:23:50 PM
Thx, mates!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: ustas on October 07, 2018, 12:58:15 AM
Mark Knopfler
ttt - Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
So., 18.11., 23:05 Uhr, ARD
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 07, 2018, 06:08:55 AM
Mark Knopfler
ttt - Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
So., 18.11., 23:05 Uhr, ARD

Sorry, what?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: shangri la 1 on October 07, 2018, 06:46:49 AM
Mark Knopfler
ttt - Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
So., 18.11., 23:05 Uhr, ARD

Sorry, what?

Sunday 18th November @ 11:05pm. on ARD [German media? I think] and Titel, Thesen, Temperamente is a TV program.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on October 07, 2018, 10:43:52 AM
ttt is a short 30 min art/culture magazine format with short clips only with the usual translated Interview snippets from a visit at BG probably, no live performance for sure.

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Kris-b on October 07, 2018, 01:08:18 PM
But perhaps  some information about the new album.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on October 07, 2018, 01:18:35 PM
Yes of course, but I doubt that they will tell us something that we yet don't know  :lol

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Kris-b on October 07, 2018, 01:20:27 PM
I am sure you are right but it will still be cool seeing him there!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on October 07, 2018, 01:39:59 PM
No question, recording already programmed.  :wave

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Kris-b on October 07, 2018, 01:51:37 PM
Me too!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Vesper on October 08, 2018, 02:08:17 PM
MK News now states in the lyrics section that Drover's Road is on the deluxe cd and deluxe LP box only.
MK.com has it as nr.20 bonus song now.

So 20 songs indeed (13 on the regular album, 3 bonus on the deluxe album and 3 extra bonus songs in the box set) and still no sign how to get Back in the Day.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 08, 2018, 02:13:38 PM
MK News now states in the lyrics section that Drover's Road is on the deluxe cd and deluxe LP box only.
MK.com has it as nr.20 bonus song now.

So 20 songs indeed (13 on the regular album, 3 bonus on the deluxe album and 3 extra bonus songs in the box set) and still no sign how to get Back in the Day.

That 13 songs versions seems to be the American one, released by Blue Note. Any other of the standard versions has 14 songs listed:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Road-Wherever-Mark-Knopfler/dp/B07HGRCFSB

Drover's road is part of all the editions except the one listed in MK.com, which is a website made in CANADA so looks they are selling the CANADIAN standard cd.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Vesper on October 08, 2018, 02:15:35 PM
MK News now states in the lyrics section that Drover's Road is on the deluxe cd and deluxe LP box only.
MK.com has it as nr.20 bonus song now.

So 20 songs indeed (13 on the regular album, 3 bonus on the deluxe album and 3 extra bonus songs in the box set) and still no sign how to get Back in the Day.

That 13 songs versions seems to be the American one, released by Blue Note. Any other of the standard versions has 14 songs listed:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Road-Wherever-Mark-Knopfler/dp/B07HGRCFSB

Drover's road is part of all the editions except the one listed in MK.com, which is a website made in CANADA so looks they are selling the CANADIAN standard cd.

Checked that too. Indeed looks that way.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: vancip on October 08, 2018, 04:24:56 PM
the American one, released by Blue Note.

Privateering had Verve label, the new one Blue Note .. in the US is MK now considered a jazz artist?  :P

P.S. I  know that Verve and Blue Note catalogues are no more jazz only but is not a bit strange to see MK under the same label of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan ?
It was decades ago that his records were in the same bunch with Metallica and Status Quo   ;D
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Stanko on October 08, 2018, 04:28:29 PM
MK News now states in the lyrics section that Drover's Road is on the deluxe cd and deluxe LP box only.
MK.com has it as nr.20 bonus song now.

So 20 songs indeed (13 on the regular album, 3 bonus on the deluxe album and 3 extra bonus songs in the box set) and still no sign how to get Back in the Day.

That 13 songs versions seems to be the American one, released by Blue Note. Any other of the standard versions has 14 songs listed:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-Road-Wherever-Mark-Knopfler/dp/B07HGRCFSB

Drover's road is part of all the editions except the one listed in MK.com, which is a website made in CANADA so looks they are selling the CANADIAN standard cd.

Checked that too. Indeed looks that way.
it wasn't hard to explain that special status when knowing them for bearing a grudge against Money For Nothing back in time. It's probably they are just not willing to risk it with the certain song, i mean who can tell whether the public out there would find the song appropriate or not   ;D
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on October 08, 2018, 04:29:05 PM
By the way, the promo email from universal Germany states 26.10 as release date (and universal Austria 16.11)
Crap marketing people@pcm

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Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: JF on October 11, 2018, 10:10:42 PM
I am currently writing on my blog an article about Ry Cooder who is coming to Paris/Olympia in two weeks.

I want to include music/video, and of course I searched for Paris Texas on YouTube.
In my article, I talk about landscapes and the fact that this music is typical for retrancribe the feeling you have when seing these american landscapes

On YouTube, I just typed "Ry cooder Paris texas", and look at the first video I got. Nice pic isn't it ?  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 12, 2018, 10:10:21 AM
What I miss in the DTRW album cover is a little twist to break up the cliché. Privateering had a bus instead of a pirate ship. Sailing to Philadelphia had an airplane instead of a ship. Shangri-La had a slot machine instead of, say, a paradise island. You know what I mean? DTRW just shows what it says. It's kind of stating the obvious. Not ugly like Golden Heart, but dull.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on October 12, 2018, 10:28:00 AM
I am currently writing on my blog an article about Ry Cooder who is coming to Paris/Olympia in two weeks.

I want to include music/video, and of course I searched for Paris Texas on YouTube.
In my article, I talk about landscapes and the fact that this music is typical for retrancribe the feeling you have when seing these american landscapes

On YouTube, I just typed "Ry cooder Paris texas", and look at the first video I got. Nice pic isn't it ?  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk
Hehe!

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Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 12, 2018, 11:36:27 AM
What I miss in the DTRW album cover is a little twist to break up the cliché. Privateering had a bus instead of a pirate ship. Sailing to Philadelphia had an airplane instead of a ship. Shangri-La had a slot machine instead of, say, a paradise island. You know what I mean? DTRW just shows what it says. It's kind of stating the obvious. Not ugly like Golden Heart, but dull.

Fully agree
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: schmonka on October 12, 2018, 12:00:06 PM
I am currently writing on my blog an article about Ry Cooder who is coming to Paris/Olympia in two weeks.

I want to include music/video, and of course I searched for Paris Texas on YouTube.
In my article, I talk about landscapes and the fact that this music is typical for retrancribe the feeling you have when seing these american landscapes

On YouTube, I just typed "Ry cooder Paris texas", and look at the first video I got. Nice pic isn't it ?  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ymVaq3Fqk

Epic Tune - Nice to see some big landscapes put to this track
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Rail King on October 12, 2018, 01:38:43 PM
What I miss in the DTRW album cover is a little twist to break up the cliché. Privateering had a bus instead of a pirate ship. Sailing to Philadelphia had an airplane instead of a ship. Shangri-La had a slot machine instead of, say, a paradise island. You know what I mean? DTRW just shows what it says. It's kind of stating the obvious. Not ugly like Golden Heart, but dull.

Fully agree

Now if only we had a working album leak we could agree on, jbaent!  ;)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 12, 2018, 01:49:15 PM
What I miss in the DTRW album cover is a little twist to break up the cliché. Privateering had a bus instead of a pirate ship. Sailing to Philadelphia had an airplane instead of a ship. Shangri-La had a slot machine instead of, say, a paradise island. You know what I mean? DTRW just shows what it says. It's kind of stating the obvious. Not ugly like Golden Heart, but dull.

Fully agree

Now if only we had a working album leak we could agree on, jbaent!  ;)

I also agree on that, LOL
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: 2manyguitars on October 12, 2018, 02:18:11 PM
The zip is still fake railking I promise.....lol

Really surprised actually that it hasn't leaked it yet.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 12, 2018, 02:24:09 PM
The zip is still fake railking I promise.....lol

Really surprised actually that it hasn't leaked it yet.

Eric Clapton Xmas record got leaked yesterday. And it was released today...

So if it happens the same with MK record... Who cares about a leak?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: 2manyguitars on October 12, 2018, 02:49:37 PM
The zip is still fake railking I promise.....lol

Really surprised actually that it hasn't leaked it yet.

Eric Clapton Xmas record got leaked yesterday. And it was released today...

So if it happens the same with MK record... Who cares about a leak?

I know what you mean and I long for the old days when an album had a release date, and anticipation just built. Then the day arrived and you actually had to buy something physical, ahh the smell and the feel of fresh vinyl, but I'll be amazed if it doesn't emerge in some shape or form several weeks before release.

Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Robson on October 12, 2018, 03:15:33 PM
I think that the radio will be earlier ;)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on October 12, 2018, 09:32:53 PM
On Amazon Canada it says the release date is November 2nd, I’m ordering it now...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on October 12, 2018, 09:58:39 PM
On Amazon Canada it says the release date is November 2nd, I’m ordering it now...

If they release it that day already, I might try to buy a digital copy...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on October 12, 2018, 11:09:53 PM
On Amazon Canada it says the release date is November 2nd, I’m ordering it now...

If they release it that day already, I might try to buy a digital copy...

Until last week it was showing Nov 16th, I’ll take a chance, will see.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on October 12, 2018, 11:19:42 PM
What does a discount code look like ?

I just checked an email I got from MK News signed “TK”, and next to his initial there is what looks like a code, numbers only. Any idea?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: PensaGhost on October 13, 2018, 12:27:53 AM
What does a discount code look like ?

I just checked an email I got from MK News signed “TK”, and next to his initial there is what looks like a code, numbers only. Any idea?

Terry Kilburn, the drinking man
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: BrianT on October 13, 2018, 11:23:25 PM
On Amazon Canada it says the release date is November 2nd, I’m ordering it now...

I ordered the box set a couple of weeks ago at $107.97 cnd  (free shipping) its a good buy, especially when you look at the UK it's 96.99 pounds
and $129.67 cnd on markknofpler.com


Brian
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on October 13, 2018, 11:46:23 PM
On Amazon Canada it says the release date is November 2nd, I’m ordering it now...

I ordered the box set a couple of weeks ago at $107.97 cnd  (free shipping) its a good buy, especially when you look at the UK it's 96.99 pounds
and $129.67 cnd on markknofpler.com


Brian

Exactly, I ordered the Deluxe edition for  $15CAN only + shipping, on MK.com it’s 22$ + shipping
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on November 13, 2018, 05:59:30 PM
Do we already know the track length of the 3 bonus tracks?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on November 13, 2018, 06:13:31 PM
Do we already know the track length of the 3 bonus tracks?

Heavy Up  6:00
Every Heart in the Room  4:30
Rear View Mirror  2:29

Times for all tracks are on iTunes.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on November 13, 2018, 06:35:59 PM
Do we already know the track length of the 3 bonus tracks?

Heavy Up  6:00
Every Heart in the Room  4:30
Rear View Mirror  2:29

Times for all tracks are on iTunes.

I mean these 3 bonus tracks of the boxset, Heavy Up is no bonus track.


17.Don’t Suck Me In
18.Sky And Water
19.Pale Imitation
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on November 13, 2018, 06:57:39 PM
Do we already know the track length of the 3 bonus tracks?

Heavy Up  6:00
Every Heart in the Room  4:30
Rear View Mirror  2:29

Times for all tracks are on iTunes.

I mean these 3 bonus tracks of the boxset, Heavy Up is no bonus track.


17.Don’t Suck Me In
18.Sky And Water
19.Pale Imitation

Ah, the super deluxe extra bonus tracks.  I thought you meant the plain ordinary deluxe extra bonus tracks!  ;D
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: border_reiver on November 14, 2018, 11:24:00 AM
Do we have any info about these special bonuses whether they are available for download or if it's on LP only?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Love Expresso on November 14, 2018, 11:33:59 AM
No we haven't but it's in the works as the first boxes have been sent apparently. So I guess we will know it soon.

LE
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on November 14, 2018, 12:07:14 PM
Do we have any info about these special bonuses whether they are available for download or if it's on LP only?

I think they are on LP and the boxes contain download codes for the tracks too.  This is taken from the official site regarding the box set:

Deluxe LP Box Set contains:

Deluxe CD
12" 2LP
BONUS 12" WITH 4 EXTRA TRACKS
12" GUITAR TABLATURE OF "BACK ON THE DANCE FLOOR"
12" PRINT OF ALBUM ARTWORK
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CARD
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on November 15, 2018, 10:23:00 AM
Mark Knopfler gleams with pride as he shows me around British Grove Studios in a quiet corner of Chiswick in London. In the control room, alongside the main state-of-the-art desk, there are three vintage consoles, one of which was used to record Band on the Run by Wings, lovingly maintained so they’re still in operation. Across the glass in the live room, a studio hand is tidying away the set-up for a film score recorded here, so there’s still a digital counter that keeps time to an nth of a second, rows of comfy-looking headphones for the orchestra, and leads, wires and pre-war microphones restored to great nick, because, according to Knopfler, no microphone records strings better.

“The padding can be flipped around too,” he says, pointing up to sound pads that line the walls. “You’d want the soft side if you were recording Frank Sinatra, or you can turn them around and have a hard sound if you want to rock out.”

If anyone knows how to make a versatile recording space, it’s Knopfler: a self-taught guitarist who went from his childhood home in Newcastle to front Dire Straits, one of the most successful rock bands in British history, before entering a prolific and varied career involve critically acclaimed solo albums, collaboration albums, film scores, writing songs like Tina Turner’s Private Dancer, and a spot of producing if the likes of Bob Dylan or Van Morrison need his magic touch.

Even now, his appetite to learn is apparent. As we move into the second studio, all quality wood and soft lighting, he explains how he’s looking for a jazz guitar tutor to expand his breadth, as if he wasn’t regularly voted one of the greatest guitarists of all time. (“I play like a plumber,” he remarks.)

Speaking with such humility, in a comfortable grey jumper and hair silvery and shorn, you’d never guess he was the same person as the sweatbanded rock star showboating in the Money for Nothing video (the first song played on MTV Europe), nor the same person who this year’s Sunday Times Rich List valued at €80 million.

Not that money matters. Truly, it takes an unblemished soul to refuse continual requests to reform Dire Straits for lucrative sums since their split in 1995.

Formed 18 years previously as an evolution of his former pub band the Café Racers, the group immediately grew interest; the enduring Sultans of Swing was their first release, and they followed it with surprise (Romeo and Juliet) after surprise (Private Investigations, Britain’s most unlikely-sounding number two single).

Then Brothers in Arms happened. With tracks like Money for Nothing and Walk of Life offering no respite from their ubiquity, it eventually racked up sales of 30 million – the same as Nirvana’s Nevermind, to put it in context. If anyone in Europe or US hadn’t heard of them, that changed with Brothers in Arms.

But just one album later, and Mark Knopfler stepped away from the behemoth, preferring to concentrate on his more creatively satisfying solo career.

“I’ve been offered enormous amounts of money to do all that Dire Straits stuff,” he says. “I don’t know how much – I’m not interested in that and I never have been. I’m quite proud of the fact that I’ve never done anything for money, and I’m not starting now. The exception would be if there was an absolute crisis with the studio, if I couldn’t run the ship the way I like to. Otherwise, it’s just a load of old exhaust to me.”

If his Dire Straits heyday is behind him, more exciting is his new release, Down the Road Wherever, recorded in these very studios. His ninth solo album and one which showcases his rootsy rock delivered with the Knopfler coolness, it features the upbeat lead track Good on You Son, plus the intriguingly titled My Bacon Roll.

It turns out the roll represents the disenfranchised part of society that longs for the past.

“The song is basically a Brexit Man in a café,” he explains. “To me, he is a man out of his time. He says: ‘I used to love a bit of folding, just for getting by, a wad of cash, now that’s out of date, and so am I’. Because now people would buy coffee with their card. That’s the modern way. Who carries around a wad of cash anymore? But it’s like being nostalgic for a time before food containers. It’s not something you can stop.”

Elsewhere, Back on the Dance Floor features Imelda May, the latest in a long line of Irish musicians with whom Knopfler has collaborated. He helped Phil Lynott out on his solo albums, and included an Irish contingent of Paul Brady, Dónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor, Liam O’Flynn and Seán Keane in his own solo album Golden Heart (Brady and O’Flynn previously played on Mark’s soundtrack for the Irish drama Cal).

“My old friend Paul Brady helped put an outfit of heavyweight, great musicians on Golden Heart,” he says. “That helped me make friends with so many great players. It was a tremendous quartet that I took around with the band. If you love Celtic music, then you feel part-Irish as a musician. Musicians kind of understand it.

“Ireland is full of memories for me. Obviously playing there with Dire Straits was amazing. When we eventually got there, the audiences were manic,” he says, referring to their five-night run in Dublin in 1991, eight years after they last appeared in Ireland.

“I can still remember playing the intro to Romeo and Juliet at the Point, and as I walked up to the mic, before I could sing, someone yelled, ‘A lovestruck Romeo!’ and everybody roared with laughter. The whole place collapsed. I had to laugh, everybody laughed. We had good times there.”

He’ll be returning to the updated version of the same venue when he tours the album next year. But now 69, he’s limiting his time on the road, and he warns it may well grind to a halt after the tour.

“I have more days off on the road now than I used to,” he says. “I used to play six nights a week, but you get to an age where it’s too much strain, so I do three in a row now, and then a night off, as befits an ageing performer.

“I think touring will be the first casualty. I’ll have to stop, like Paul Simon has just stopped. You can understand it, because it takes a lot out of you. So I’ll go on writing, I’ll go on recording if I can, and then maybe just do the odd show.”

Does that mean the 2019 dates will be his last proper tour?

“It might very well be. It will be funny to say goodbye to it, because it’s always been the end of the cycle. But I won’t think about it. I’ll just make a record like I’ve always made, and then when it comes to talking about the tour, I just won’t talk about it.”
Coming off the road is inevitable unless you’re Bob Dylan; a more curious trend among his peers is to approve a biopic. The newly-released Bohemian Rhapsody tells the story of Queen, while Elton John’s biopic Rocketman is due to appear in cinemas at the end of May next year. But not one to revisit past territory, we won’t see a Mark Knopfler-approved Dire Straits biopic any time soon. Even though it’s begging to be titled Walk of Life.

“I’m not very good at nostalgia – that’s my point with My Bacon Roll,” he says. “I don’t like going back to old school reunions. I’m more interested in now.” That might explain why he was notably absent as Dire Straits were inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in April. In the end, former members John Illsley, Alan Clark and Guy Fletcher represented the band. Mark’s brother David Knopfler retracted his attendance when the organisers retracted their offer to cover his travel expenses.

“I can well understand that with only $5 million a year in sponsorships and 100k a table and no fees for the artist that paying my taxi to the airport must have given them heart murmurs,” David wrote on Facebook. The organisers made Dire Straits the first act to be inducted without an induction speech or commemorative performance. Ouch.

Asked to shed light on his absence at an event that prompted the Police, Led Zeppelin and Talking Heads to semi-reunite, he shrugs his shoulders as calm as ever.

“It doesn’t interest me very much,” he says. “And I don’t like being told what to do. They called Paul Crockard [his longtime manager] first. We have the same detectors, and I could tell he wasn’t happy. I think he felt they were dictating the details of how it would run, who should be there, when we should go, how much press to do.

“At that time, I was trying to ride two horses at once: I was writing a musical for Local Hero and trying to make this album, I had plenty to be doing, so it didn’t interest me.

“Also, the name puts me off. Fame is a by-product of success to me. I like that success has enabled me to build this studio, but I don’t know that fame has ever done anything good.”

Aside from touring, Local Hero, the musical, is Knopfler’s main project for 2019. Based on Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film for which he wrote the Bafta-nominated soundtrack, it finally opens at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh next March for an initial run.

Knopfler, who was born in Glasgow, says: “I didn’t think I would ever do a musical because I’m not a musical type of a person. I don’t normally get excited about them and it’s not usually my style. But I love the story of Local Hero – it still makes me emotional, and I found I could write songs for the characters.”

So while he may be winding down touring activity soon, with his mental dexterity still evident in his new output – and imminent music lessons – expect to hear new projects from Knopfler in years to come. Just don’t expect a Dire Straits reunion.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Pottel on November 15, 2018, 12:00:52 PM
Mark Knopfler gleams with pride as he shows me around British Grove Studios in a quiet corner of Chiswick in London. In the control room, alongside the main state-of-the-art desk, there are three vintage consoles, one of which was used to record Band on the Run by Wings, lovingly maintained so they’re still in operation. Across the glass in the live room, a studio hand is tidying away the set-up for a film score recorded here, so there’s still a digital counter that keeps time to an nth of a second, rows of comfy-looking headphones for the orchestra, and leads, wires and pre-war microphones restored to great nick, because, according to Knopfler, no microphone records strings better.

“The padding can be flipped around too,” he says, pointing up to sound pads that line the walls. “You’d want the soft side if you were recording Frank Sinatra, or you can turn them around and have a hard sound if you want to rock out.”

If anyone knows how to make a versatile recording space, it’s Knopfler: a self-taught guitarist who went from his childhood home in Newcastle to front Dire Straits, one of the most successful rock bands in British history, before entering a prolific and varied career involve critically acclaimed solo albums, collaboration albums, film scores, writing songs like Tina Turner’s Private Dancer, and a spot of producing if the likes of Bob Dylan or Van Morrison need his magic touch.

Even now, his appetite to learn is apparent. As we move into the second studio, all quality wood and soft lighting, he explains how he’s looking for a jazz guitar tutor to expand his breadth, as if he wasn’t regularly voted one of the greatest guitarists of all time. (“I play like a plumber,” he remarks.)

Speaking with such humility, in a comfortable grey jumper and hair silvery and shorn, you’d never guess he was the same person as the sweatbanded rock star showboating in the Money for Nothing video (the first song played on MTV Europe), nor the same person who this year’s Sunday Times Rich List valued at €80 million.

Not that money matters. Truly, it takes an unblemished soul to refuse continual requests to reform Dire Straits for lucrative sums since their split in 1995.

Formed 18 years previously as an evolution of his former pub band the Café Racers, the group immediately grew interest; the enduring Sultans of Swing was their first release, and they followed it with surprise (Romeo and Juliet) after surprise (Private Investigations, Britain’s most unlikely-sounding number two single).

Then Brothers in Arms happened. With tracks like Money for Nothing and Walk of Life offering no respite from their ubiquity, it eventually racked up sales of 30 million – the same as Nirvana’s Nevermind, to put it in context. If anyone in Europe or US hadn’t heard of them, that changed with Brothers in Arms.

But just one album later, and Mark Knopfler stepped away from the behemoth, preferring to concentrate on his more creatively satisfying solo career.

“I’ve been offered enormous amounts of money to do all that Dire Straits stuff,” he says. “I don’t know how much – I’m not interested in that and I never have been. I’m quite proud of the fact that I’ve never done anything for money, and I’m not starting now. The exception would be if there was an absolute crisis with the studio, if I couldn’t run the ship the way I like to. Otherwise, it’s just a load of old exhaust to me.”

If his Dire Straits heyday is behind him, more exciting is his new release, Down the Road Wherever, recorded in these very studios. His ninth solo album and one which showcases his rootsy rock delivered with the Knopfler coolness, it features the upbeat lead track Good on You Son, plus the intriguingly titled My Bacon Roll.

It turns out the roll represents the disenfranchised part of society that longs for the past.

“The song is basically a Brexit Man in a café,” he explains. “To me, he is a man out of his time. He says: ‘I used to love a bit of folding, just for getting by, a wad of cash, now that’s out of date, and so am I’. Because now people would buy coffee with their card. That’s the modern way. Who carries around a wad of cash anymore? But it’s like being nostalgic for a time before food containers. It’s not something you can stop.”

Elsewhere, Back on the Dance Floor features Imelda May, the latest in a long line of Irish musicians with whom Knopfler has collaborated. He helped Phil Lynott out on his solo albums, and included an Irish contingent of Paul Brady, Dónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor, Liam O’Flynn and Seán Keane in his own solo album Golden Heart (Brady and O’Flynn previously played on Mark’s soundtrack for the Irish drama Cal).

“My old friend Paul Brady helped put an outfit of heavyweight, great musicians on Golden Heart,” he says. “That helped me make friends with so many great players. It was a tremendous quartet that I took around with the band. If you love Celtic music, then you feel part-Irish as a musician. Musicians kind of understand it.

“Ireland is full of memories for me. Obviously playing there with Dire Straits was amazing. When we eventually got there, the audiences were manic,” he says, referring to their five-night run in Dublin in 1991, eight years after they last appeared in Ireland.

“I can still remember playing the intro to Romeo and Juliet at the Point, and as I walked up to the mic, before I could sing, someone yelled, ‘A lovestruck Romeo!’ and everybody roared with laughter. The whole place collapsed. I had to laugh, everybody laughed. We had good times there.”

He’ll be returning to the updated version of the same venue when he tours the album next year. But now 69, he’s limiting his time on the road, and he warns it may well grind to a halt after the tour.

“I have more days off on the road now than I used to,” he says. “I used to play six nights a week, but you get to an age where it’s too much strain, so I do three in a row now, and then a night off, as befits an ageing performer.

“I think touring will be the first casualty. I’ll have to stop, like Paul Simon has just stopped. You can understand it, because it takes a lot out of you. So I’ll go on writing, I’ll go on recording if I can, and then maybe just do the odd show.”

Does that mean the 2019 dates will be his last proper tour?

“It might very well be. It will be funny to say goodbye to it, because it’s always been the end of the cycle. But I won’t think about it. I’ll just make a record like I’ve always made, and then when it comes to talking about the tour, I just won’t talk about it.”
Coming off the road is inevitable unless you’re Bob Dylan; a more curious trend among his peers is to approve a biopic. The newly-released Bohemian Rhapsody tells the story of Queen, while Elton John’s biopic Rocketman is due to appear in cinemas at the end of May next year. But not one to revisit past territory, we won’t see a Mark Knopfler-approved Dire Straits biopic any time soon. Even though it’s begging to be titled Walk of Life.

“I’m not very good at nostalgia – that’s my point with My Bacon Roll,” he says. “I don’t like going back to old school reunions. I’m more interested in now.” That might explain why he was notably absent as Dire Straits were inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in April. In the end, former members John Illsley, Alan Clark and Guy Fletcher represented the band. Mark’s brother David Knopfler retracted his attendance when the organisers retracted their offer to cover his travel expenses.

“I can well understand that with only $5 million a year in sponsorships and 100k a table and no fees for the artist that paying my taxi to the airport must have given them heart murmurs,” David wrote on Facebook. The organisers made Dire Straits the first act to be inducted without an induction speech or commemorative performance. Ouch.

Asked to shed light on his absence at an event that prompted the Police, Led Zeppelin and Talking Heads to semi-reunite, he shrugs his shoulders as calm as ever.

“It doesn’t interest me very much,” he says. “And I don’t like being told what to do. They called Paul Crockard [his longtime manager] first. We have the same detectors, and I could tell he wasn’t happy. I think he felt they were dictating the details of how it would run, who should be there, when we should go, how much press to do.

“At that time, I was trying to ride two horses at once: I was writing a musical for Local Hero and trying to make this album, I had plenty to be doing, so it didn’t interest me.

“Also, the name puts me off. Fame is a by-product of success to me. I like that success has enabled me to build this studio, but I don’t know that fame has ever done anything good.”

Aside from touring, Local Hero, the musical, is Knopfler’s main project for 2019. Based on Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film for which he wrote the Bafta-nominated soundtrack, it finally opens at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh next March for an initial run.

Knopfler, who was born in Glasgow, says: “I didn’t think I would ever do a musical because I’m not a musical type of a person. I don’t normally get excited about them and it’s not usually my style. But I love the story of Local Hero – it still makes me emotional, and I found I could write songs for the characters.”

So while he may be winding down touring activity soon, with his mental dexterity still evident in his new output – and imminent music lessons – expect to hear new projects from Knopfler in years to come. Just don’t expect a Dire Straits reunion.
Very much liked this interview, thnx!

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Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on November 15, 2018, 12:11:40 PM
I'd like to have it at the first post but it says I exceeded the maximum length...
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on November 15, 2018, 02:21:40 PM
Seems a problem indeed
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: PensaGhost on November 15, 2018, 02:56:29 PM
MK.com still shows the basic CD edition as 13-tracks without Drovers' Road while all selling websites as 14,
which one is correct ?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on November 15, 2018, 03:00:46 PM
MK.com still shows the basic CD edition as 13-tracks without Drovers' Road while all selling websites as 14,
which one is correct ?

As long as mk.com is a Canadian site my bet is that NA release from bluenote has 13 songs and the rest of editions has 14.

Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Dutchessy on November 15, 2018, 04:22:50 PM
I'd like to have it at the first post but it says I exceeded the maximum length...

Fixed
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on November 15, 2018, 04:26:01 PM
I'd like to have it at the first post but it says I exceeded the maximum length...

Fixed

Great work as usual!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbanik on December 12, 2018, 01:28:17 AM
Has anyone in NA ordered the LP box set from Amazon? I ordered mine and since then it's been just delaying. Until last week the date for availability was Dec 21, now it's Jan 11. I wonder if they ever actually gonna send me the box set.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on December 12, 2018, 10:20:10 AM
I got it with one day of delay.

Looks like in a certain point the run out of boxes and had to wait to receive more.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbanik on December 12, 2018, 04:54:20 PM
I got it with one day of delay.

Looks like in a certain point the run out of boxes and had to wait to receive more.

Probably that's the case. Anyway, I find it a bit unprofessional to wait for an album for such a long period of time. I would have ordered it from MK.com, but I was shocked to see that they were charging $20 for delivering a box set worth of $100. That's not the way how you do business.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: PensaGhost on December 12, 2018, 05:00:51 PM
jbanik is jbaent's wife ?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on December 12, 2018, 05:41:03 PM
jbanik is jbaent's wife ?

 :lol :lol

 :think :think
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on December 12, 2018, 06:50:28 PM
jbanik is jbaent's wife ?

It's me but in my Polish impersonation

LOL
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: mabarriosp on December 14, 2018, 07:55:26 PM
Hello,

I have purchased the Limited box edition of Down the road wherever from Amazon. But I don't have received any "download code for the album" that should be included according to the the contains. Anyone has the same problem? Where I can claim it? Or should I return it to Amazon?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: PensaGhost on December 14, 2018, 07:59:29 PM
Hello,

I have purchased the Limited box edition of Down the road wherever from Amazon. But I don't have received any "download code for the album" that should be included according to the the contains. Anyone has the same problem? Where I can claim it? Or should I return it to Amazon?

Thanks!

When I bought the Tracker box from Amazon, I received it already opened and the physical cd was missing

You could both ask for a refund from Amazon and/or ask mk.com to give you the code
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: mabarriosp on December 14, 2018, 08:10:32 PM
Thanks for the information. I have emailed to "help@markknopfler.com" asking for it. Otherwise I would return it to Amazon.

Does anyone know if the extra tracks (Pale Imitation, Don't suck me in, Sky and Water, Back in the day) are in the digital download?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: PensaGhost on December 14, 2018, 11:33:25 PM
Thanks for the information. I have emailed to "help@markknopfler.com" asking for it. Otherwise I would return it to Amazon.

Does anyone know if the extra tracks (Pale Imitation, Don't suck me in, Sky and Water, Back in the day) are in the digital download?

Thanks!

yes the first 3, the 4th is not and will not be available anywhere
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbanik on December 15, 2018, 12:55:09 AM
Hello,

I have purchased the Limited box edition of Down the road wherever from Amazon. But I don't have received any "download code for the album" that should be included according to the the contains. Anyone has the same problem? Where I can claim it? Or should I return it to Amazon?

Thanks!

When did you place your order in Amazon? I have placed mine a long time ago, but since then it's been showing delayed and delayed. Also, if you don't mind sharing: are you from North America?
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on December 15, 2018, 02:10:28 PM
Hello,

I have purchased the Limited box edition of Down the road wherever from Amazon. But I don't have received any "download code for the album" that should be included according to the the contains. Anyone has the same problem? Where I can claim it? Or should I return it to Amazon?

Thanks!

Someone said their code was inside the sleeve of the vinyl.  Could be hiding in there.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Markus on December 15, 2018, 03:58:10 PM
Someone said their code was inside the sleeve of the vinyl.  Could be hiding in there.
Yes it was inside.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on December 15, 2018, 06:53:43 PM
This thread is for information about the record, not about if anyone has received it etc, there are other threads for that.
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dmg on December 15, 2018, 09:02:11 PM
This thread is for information about the record, not about if anyone has received it etc, there are other threads for that.

A fan in need, needs a code indeed.  ;)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on February 22, 2019, 09:49:27 AM
First page updated with the video press kit
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on March 18, 2019, 01:52:19 PM
Just recall that there is a track with a registered number at iswc-net before "My bacon roll" called "MOVING UP" with iswc numer T-925.653.523-6
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: kaleo74 on March 19, 2019, 01:49:56 PM
Just recall that there is a track with a registered number at iswc-net before "My bacon roll" called "MOVING UP" with iswc numer T-925.653.523-6

Too bad it didn't make it, do you want to ask Guy about it ? lol not sure right
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: jbaent on March 19, 2019, 02:34:11 PM
Just recall that there is a track with a registered number at iswc-net before "My bacon roll" called "MOVING UP" with iswc numer T-925.653.523-6

Too bad it didn't make it, do you want to ask Guy about it ? lol not sure right

You can do it yourself, lol
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: dustyvalentino on December 02, 2019, 12:50:03 PM
PSA, cheap price for the box in the UK:

https://store.hmv.com/store/music/vinyl/down-the-road-wherever-(1)
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Knopflerfan on May 19, 2020, 06:32:17 PM
Bought these amongst other MK collectables from a local chap who knows Terry Kilburn of MK News fame
Title: Re: Information about "Down the road wherever"
Post by: Knopflerfan on May 22, 2020, 02:18:03 PM
Anyone else seen this piece of DTRW memorabilia??