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Get Lucky |  | Artist: Mark Knopfler
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 131
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 520206
UPC: 093624974628
EAN: 0093624974628
ASIN: B002ELM5HY
Release Date: September 15, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Border Reiver | | • | Hard Shoulder | | • | You Can't Beat The House | | • | Before Gas And TV | | • | Monteleone | | • | Cleaning My Gun | | • | The Car Was The One | | • | Remembrance Day | | • | Get Lucky | | • | So Far From The Clyde | | • | Piper To The End |
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Product Description
This is the sixth solo studio album from the legendary musician and follows 2007's highly successful Kill To Get Crimson, which Rolling Stone heralded as 'a gem' and USA Today described as, '...yet another unpretentious showcase for his unmistakable gifts as a musician, tunesmith and storyteller.'
Recorded at Knopfler's award-winning British Grove Studios in West London, Get Lucky was co-produced with longtime collaborators, engineer Chuck Ainlay and keyboardist Guy Fletcher and featured Richard Bennett, Danny Cummings, John McCusker, Matt Rollings and Glenn Worf. The 11-track album explores a lifetime of musical roots exemplified by the title track. 'The first itinerant person I ever met would sing in soul bands in winter, then work part-time in fairgrounds or 'go pick fruit down south' when the weather turned warm,' explains Knopfler. 'I was about 15 years old, stuck in school and envious. 'Get Lucky' came from him and other traveling characters I went on to meet in places I'd find myself working short-term, like farms, warehouses, building sites, before I got lucky with my songs.'
Album Description
2009 release, the former Dire Strait leader's fifth solo album overall. Get Lucky was recorded at the award-winning British Grove Studios in West London and co-produced with long-time cohorts Ainlay and Guy Fletcher, Get Lucky is a beautifully crafted exploration of a lifetime of musical roots. Fluently combining Folk and Blues with his original songwriting, the whole containing personalized British ingredients and vivid observational lyricism. 11 tracks.
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 Good album with a disappointing start! November 23, 2009
A streetar with desire (Linz)
An unusual quiet album reminding Knopfler's soundtracks "Local Hero" and "Cal". The first 5 tracks are really disappointing but this changes with the great "Cleaning my Gun" and stays on this high level to the end.
"Get lucky" is the prove: MK is not only a God on guitar, the man really can sing!
 Could this his best solo work? November 20, 2009
R. P. Perkins (Pleasant Hill, CA USA)
What a great record. After a so so KTGC Get Lucky has been played over and over in my home. Looking forward to seeing his show this coming April. MK is one class act.
Mark's A Different Person Now - and It's Cool November 19, 2009
KDiddy (California)
Of course GET LUCKY is a great album. It's a deeper and more personal extension of all the richness and sophistication that has always been present in his work. Fade to Blade, Iron Hand, Prairie Wedding and so many more are all noble antecedents. Like Monteleone, Mark's just getting every single subtle vibration out of his words and music. He's feeling it and so are we. He's very much in his own space, like Lightfoot, and painting away. This is the reflective Mark, not the rock star, and it's a thing of beauty.
A knockout November 17, 2009
Globie (St. Louis)
Mark Knopfler is a brilliant songwriter who can evoke a time, a feeling, a memory, or a life as well as anyone. But it's his playing that knocks me out and literally moves me to tears. He is one of the rare musicians recognizable at one note, but there is not the least bit of self-conscious virtuosity. He is neither understated nor overstated, just absolutely spot on, every single note, every single song.
Beautiful Orchestration! November 12, 2009
ElanMan (danville, ca USA)
I will pre-order and buy a new Mark Knopfler album any day! He writes like Dylan, plays guitar like Clapton (different style, but you get the idea), and his compositions keep getting better and better, especially in the good company of the likes of Guy Fletcher and Richard Bennett.
"Get Luck" was not love at-first-listen for me, but it has really grown on me over time. I likened it to Ragpicker's Dream," a bit slow for my tastes. My wife, on the other hand, liked it a lot from the start, and after several times listening, I grew to like it more, and I dug out the song lyrics. After that - I loved it to the point that I would now rate it as my favorite album of 2009!
The disc has not been out of our 5-disc player since it arrived more than a month ago. I actually like every song on the album, but my personal favorites are "Monteleone," "The Car was the One," and the title track. "Monteleone" is beautifully assembled. A "gear-head," Mark has written two of the best songs about racing I know, "Nazareth" and now this. The title track "Get Luck" is a beautiful, upbeat ballad - and it is my current favorite!
I hear just the slightest-bit of Simon and Garfunkel's "April Comes She Will" in certain parts of the melody of "Remembrance Day." I like it!
The orchestration sets this album apart for me. Sure, I love screaming guitars and intricate solos, but that's another album. It's the arrangements that make this collection special for me. I think that Guy Fletcher had a lot to do with that aspect of this album, and I hope that there will be STRINGS that accompany the band on their spring North American tour. I am looking forward to hearing Mark and his band play the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, a fantastic, perfectly renovated venue.
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