Shangri-La

Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La

Shangri-La
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Artist: Mark Knopfler
Brand: KNOPFLER,MARK
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Music Label: WEA/Reprise
Soundtracks:
  1. 5.15 A.M.
  2. Boom, Like That
  3. Sucker Row
  4. The Trawlerman's Song
  5. Back To Tupelo
  6. Our Shangri-La
  7. Everybody Pays
  8. Song For Sonny Liston
  9. Whoop De Doo
  10. Postcards From Paraguay
  11. All That Matters
  12. Stand Up Guy
  13. Donegan's Gone
  14. Don't Crash The Ambulance

Free Music Notes for Shangri-La

Free Music Review: Very Enjoyable Album
Hit: 5 Stars

As a guitar player myself for almost 40 years now, I could enjoy a Mark Knopfler album for just the guitar playing alone.

I've said it in other reviews that while there are players around who are technically better players than Mark (they can play 1,000 64th notes in the span of 2 seconds or tap out an entire tune with ten fingers and 8 toes), I don't believe there is a more tasteful player on the planet than Mark Knopfler.

But the fact is that he's not only a great player who's a joy to listen to (and to try and emulate), he's also a great songwriter as well who surrounds himself with some of the best musicians around.

I have to confess that when I originally bought this CD within hours of its release, I listened to it several times in my car as I would drive to and from work and initially, I wasn't too impressed. My first impression was that it was "slow" - seemed to lack "passion" and just lacked pzazzzzz.

After all, this album came out after Sailing To Philadelphia, which I instantly loved and literally played over and over and over again.

However, it's now 2007 - a few years after its release and I honestly have to say that this is a great and very "easy on the ears" cd to listen to. And it's very interesting, but my wife and young son vacationed a few months ago in southern California and spent some time in Malibu (where this album was recorded) and I can better understand the laid-back quality of it. Malibu is a nice community on the Pacific Coast Highway with the ocean on one side of you and these hills / cliffs with palatial multi-million homes) on the other side. It doesn't exactly exude the same type of "energy" you might feel walking down 5th Avenue In NYC.

This album is alot like Mark as a person or Mark as a performer. I've seen him many, many times in concert and you would never confuse his shows with Elton John or Madonna.

In fact, my wife and I have butted heads about this as she says that his shows are "boring". My response is that if boring is great songs being performed by consumate musicians without firey pyrotechnics or women running around in lingerie is boring, then she's right - he's "boring".

Let me close by relaying a personal story about Mark Knopfler, the person.

In 1994, my wife committed suicide. While the grief and guilt, at times, seemEd overwhelming, I managed to keep my "sanity" by pulling out an older Mark Knopfler / Dire Straits CD and trying to figure out how to play a particularily difficult passage. For 1 or 2 or 5 hours each day, I could put aside my "pain" and just focus on how to play, for example, the solo in Once Upon A Time In The West or Tunnel of Love.

I always wanted to thank Mark personally for "helping" me get through a particularily difficult time in my life - but I am a terrible procrastinator. Even after his motorcycle accident, I still put it off.

Finally a few weeks before Christmas this year, I sent an email to Mark Knopfler via a friend of his whose email address I knew.

A couple of weeks later, I received two autographed pictures of Mark - one made out to me and one to my new 15 month old son, Brandon (I was married again a couple of years ago).

Some day when Brandon is older, a guitar player and as big a fan / admirer of Mark Knopfler as his pop is, I'm going to present him with the framed picture.

Thanks, Mark - for both the pictures and your body of work over the last 20 years.

And thanks for Shangri-la. It took awhile, but I eventually came around and now really enjoy this album. It's kind of like Scotch whiskey - an acquired taste..!
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Shangri-La Poster

The fourth solo excursion from acclaimed singer-songwriter-guitarist Mark Knopfler, Shangri-La is perhaps his most rocking album since his halcyon days in Dire Straits. A four- time Grammy winner who has sold some 110 million albums worldwide with that group and solo ? and whose signature guitar sound, instantly recognizable vocals and smart lyrics have made him one of rock's most admired artists ? Knopfler offers an idyllic earthly refuge for the sophisticated rock fan with Shangri-La.
Mark Knopfler isn't afraid to drop names. The heavyweight Cassius Clay laid low, the man who made burgers and fries into big business, the kings of rock & roll and skiffle are among the motley assortment who pass through Knopfler's fourth solo album. Recorded in Malibu with a tight crew of steadfast Knopfler sidemen, Shangri-La (the title comes from the studio where the entire set was recorded) chronicles the foibles of the acclaimed and the adrift, all delivered with the nonchalant grace that has marked Knopfler's music since Dire Straits emerged in the late '70s. Seven of album's 14 originals clock in at between five and seven minutes. That's Knopfler in a nutshell--don't rush things, but don't loose the thread, either. As a songwriter, Knopfler has a storyteller's eye for minutiae, which he delivers with practiced nuance. He overreaches here and there ("Song for Sonny Liston" fails to capture the pathos of the menacing fighter), but also pulls off a few career highlights (the understated crime-drama opener "5.15 a.m."). --Steve Stolder

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