Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
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Artist: Mark Knopfler and Emmylou HarrisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Beachcombing
- I Dug Up A Diamond
- This Is Us
- Red Staggerwing
- Rollin' On
- Love and Happiness for You
- Right Now
- Donkey Town
- Belle Star
- Beyond My Wildest Dreams
- All the Roadrunning
- If This is Goodbye
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Free Music Review: Beautiful Album of singable, listenable and intelligent songs
Hit: 5 Stars
I agree 100% with several other reviewers about the official Amazon.com review - ignore it!! This is a lovely album, full of beautiful songs, with a very engaging mixture of 'story' or relationship subjects counterpointed with Knopfler's very recognizable guitar playing. Certain of the songs are achingly beautiful - for example, I find the first (Beachcombing) that way, not that its a slow song, it bounces along quietly with Knopfler's guitar gently adding a twist to the line. Others, like 'Rollin' On', are straight melancholy - a great song for Harris's voice. They are all good of course.
The songs are all intelligent, covering a wide range of subjects, personas, speeds and moods - several remind me on John Prine (e.g. 'Hello in There') - songs that seem very authentic, speaking of what seems like lifelike experiences.
Its a great match - I have always loved Knopfler's work, both in Dire Straits and afterwards, and for decades have followed Emmylou Harris's career from her early CD's to the latest. While I have never really liked country music in general, Emmylou's style, songs and approach has engaged me from the very first listen. Her high, slightly edgy voice, with Knopfler's low, gruffer one, works really well.
A great listen...a CD with a CD's worth of good tunes and words.
All the Roadrunning Poster
Over the last seven years, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris quietly recorded an album by stealing "a few precious hours of studio time here and there," as the ex-Dire Straits singer/guitarist puts it. Good thing they kept it largely under wraps--expectations would have pushed through the clouds, especially as Knopfler conjured 10 of the 12 cuts, and Harris, who writes potently, but little, contributed two ("Love and Happiness," "Belle Starr"). Yet now that it's here, All the Roadrunning--while beautiful--seems somehow underwhelming, and without a true centerpiece. Anyone familiar with the artists' famous catalogues would expect the repertoire to be poetic and brooding, and that Harris's ethereal soprano would add light to Knopfler's dark Prozac rumblings. But the surprise is that the album is too tame, never breaks out of its midtempo groove, and never takes any big chances.That said, there is much to like: The marital scrapbook romp of "This Is Us," the bluesy bickering of "Right Now," the wrenching poignancy of the 9/11-inspired ballad "If This Is Goodbye." Knopfler, ever the hypnotic guitarist, turns in some thrillingly droll and laconic vocals, and Harris brings the spirited coltishness of her early work to "Belle Starr." In the end, though, this is not so much a duet album as two famously melancholy musicians singing together--at times, strikingly so. --Alanna Nash More Mark & Emmylou
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For several years, the iconic Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris have been quietly recording a remarkable collection of duets whenever the Grammy winning artists could steal away from their own illustrious careers. The extraordinary result is All the Roadrunning. The songs from their Nashville sessions, all originals, while undeniably modern, have the appeal of classics, whether country, Celtic flavored or gently soulful. All the Roadrunning is Knopfler & Harris making music and, as the lyric for "This is Us" puts it, making history.
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