This song has one of Mark
Knopfler’s best riffs (or is it a refrain?) in a career full of great ones. It’s from Dire Straits’
last album and, like many of his songs, it builds slowly. After the verses are
sung, his guitar plays 10 single notes, once, twice, then a little drum comes
in and it repeats a couple more times, then it repeats (sounds dull, but give
it a listen) and adds instruments (even some cowbell at one point, I think!),
then he adds a little slide guitar and the bass comes in and it builds into a
rollicking, ..and it fades….
I can listen to this over and over.
Lynn likes it, too.
It reminds me of the Christmas in
1991 when I asked for this album from Lynn’s mom as my X-mas present.
It also reminds me of the X-mas
when we had a round robin gift giving (I don’t think that’s the name for it,
but I’m 60 now, an old man). Everybody brought a gift and then we sat in my
brother in law Dave’s Chicago “bachelor” pad and took turns either taking a
gift or passing yours to someone else, taking theirs.
Everybody seemed to end up with
their own gift, as I recall, and I was happy because I ended up with the DVD of
Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”. At the time, we were the only ones with a DVD player
so I guess I knew what I’d end up with.
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