Any Mark Knopfler fans out there?


I have been a Dire Straits fan since they first started. Had most of their music when I was in college and enjoyed it on my roommates hi-fi system. (Never cared too much for Brothers in Arms).Those old tapes and LPs are long gone but since getting into hi-fi recently I am replacing them with CDs and really falling in love with them again.

Really didn't know anything about Knopfler's very prolific solo career until I got Tracker. Very different from Dire Straits but a really great album musically and sonically (with great DR!). I subsequently listened to some of his other solo stuff and it left me a little cold. Sailing to Philadelphia is okay to me, Privateering seems closer to Tracker in style and content. I ordered it on CD but it has not arrived yet.

His new album comes out later this month. Not sure what to expect. Some of the same band members will be on it. It is described as slow and folksy which is what most of his solo stuff has been. Hope it is not too much 'slower' than Tracker.

Any thoughts on Knopfler's solo career or this upcoming new album?
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Dylan was deeply interested and involved in spiritual matters long before and after his three overtly Christian-themed albums. In the pics of his living room from the late 60’s, you can see a large Bible on one of those stands made for them. The 1968 John Wesley Harding album is full of Biblical references and themes, as had been previous albums dating back to the mid-60’s. His focus at the time may have been more on the Old Testament than the New, coming from a Jewish heritage and upbringing. The burning desire to share with others a spiritual awakening eventually subsides, and one returns to a "normal" spiritual life. Dylan was been to Jerusalem a few times, praying at the Wailing Wall. 

Just because Dylan isn’t public with his current spiritual life doesn’t mean he doesn’t have one. He was also not public with his marriage to one of his background singers, and their child together. Does that mean his marriage and child are/were fads?! How many know Bob has a brother? To think we know all about his personal life is rather presumptuous.