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DISCID=b90f8e0e
DTITLE=Mark Knopfler / Shangri-La (Limited Edition)
DYEAR=2004
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=5.15 A.M.
TTITLE1=Boom, Like That
TTITLE2=Sucker Row
TTITLE3=The Trawlersman's Song
TTITLE4=Back To Tupelo
TTITLE5=Our Shangri-La
TTITLE6=Everybody Pays
TTITLE7=Song For Sonny Liston
TTITLE8=Whoop De Doo
TTITLE9=Postcards From Paraguay
TTITLE10=All That Matters
TTITLE11=Stand Up Guy
TTITLE12=Donegan's Gone
TTITLE13=Don't Crash The Ambulance
EXTD=Originally Released September 28, 2004 or December 7, 2004\nCD+DVDA Edition Released January 
EXTD=11s collarbone, shoulder, and seven ribs in a motorcycle crash in March 2003, finds the etern
EXTD=allybulance" aside -- he uses his warm baritone and effortless guitar work to ruminate on eve
EXTD=rythin("Boom, Like That"). Knopfler has more or less abandoned the British folk and Celtic-in
EXTD=fluencedd bluesy, midtempo dirges that revel in their uncharacteristic sparseness -- one of t
EXTD=he better  his melancholic slow-burn tone is as peat-smoked as ever, and his penchant for wra
EXTD=pping Americ5:15 A.M." -- is evident throughout. Dynamically, Shangri-La loses steam about th
EXTD=ree-quarters oovers of Chet Atkins, Gordon Lightfoot, and J.J. Cale, as well as late-night po
EXTD=ker players and  Monger\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nMark Knopflerisn't afraid to drop nam
EXTD=es. The heavyweigass through Knopfler's fourth solo album. Recorded in Malibu with a tight cr
EXTD=ew of steadfast Knodelivered with the nonchalant grace that has marked Knopfler's music since
EXTD= Dire Straits emergedoose the thread, either. As a songwriter, Knopfler has a storyteller's e
EXTD=ye for minutiae, which ulls off a few career highlights (the understated crime-drama opener "
EXTD=5.15 a.m."). --Steve Stol rocking album since his halcyon days in Dire Straits. A four- time 
EXTD=Grammy winner who has sold im one of rock's most admired artists -- Knopfler offers an idylli
EXTD=c earthlyrefuge for the soph "Brian Archibald" (Louisville, KY)\nCan't say enough about this 
EXTD=album. I got it as traditionaln this format. The positive reviews on the mix were even more e
EXTD=ncouraging. I've got a dedicatedh-end system, but it'll hold its own. \nI have to say that I 
EXTD=was disapointed when I heard the a voice and instuments. The idea of 5 channel separation is 
EXTD=a wonderful thing when done right -amay love it; to me, it's unbalanced and makes for a frust
EXTD=rating listening experience. -Brian\n\nfine wine: Unappreciated by children. \n\nMr. Knopfler
EXTD= writes songs that examine the deeper thiheart is music that the majority of listeners overlo
EXTD=ok in their haste for aquick fix, for the lmost any other recording artist out there. \n\nIt 
EXTD=takes a few listens to begin to gather what something new each time. \n\nMusic like this is w
EXTD=asted on the shallow and obtuse. For grown peog Rocker" (MD, USA)\nAs one who grew up in the 
EXTD=UK with Dire Straits and still regards them as ooods and tastes and it's as if he knows where
EXTD= I am in my own aging process. It's his lyrics, alg melodies to carry around. Mark Knopfler h
EXTD=as a way of making you "see" his music. "5:15 a.m." to both the late, greatElvis and Lonnie! 
EXTD=Even if your political views don't quite mesh, "Don'tf place with the lyrics but somehow fits
EXTD= so perfectly. Add: "Everybody Pays," Shangri-la," "Whosiness, Success and Corruption, Januar
EXTD=y 27, 2006\nReviewer: C U LADA (NJ, USA)\nI was gifted th on the first of December. For some 
EXTD=reason, the colder the morning, the better these songs soun that warmed my soul. \n\nI am una
EXTD=ble to articulate words and phrases that describe themusic, for most others. Be alone, whethe
EXTD=r it's in your car or at home. And turn it up so you can feel  \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
EXTD=\nNo sir, I don't like it, January 2, 2006\nReviewer: Dr. Rock\napproach to his guitar solos 
EXTD=on his past few albums I felt that this one was lacking too much iITAR GOD and his work shoul
EXTD=d reflect this. \n\nAs for the songs themselves only a few were ableatters" and "Stand up Guy
EXTD=" were all right; and the rest of the album didn't really do it for men\nI'm sure the long-ti
EXTD=me fans willget something from this album, but if you're new to Knopfle with you moresir, whe
EXTD=n you say "MK sounds like MK and DS sounds like DS". My review, however,, which is quite clea
EXTD=rly not true (with the possible exception of "BLT"). As I said before, "Gorry. This one takes
EXTD= its time., May 27, 2005\nReviewer: P. Microulis (North Providence, RI USA)\nwhen you take a 
EXTD=little time to relax with these songs, resist the impulse to be instantly judgeforget or dont
EXTD= always give him due for his storytelling. And the collection of riff-raff that i. And even t
EXTD=hough you know them, you find that he's telling you something new. \n\nBut how abou but when 
EXTD=it does, you will know just who he is and how he feels. A nobody who will never be ana lot of
EXTD= overdone on this CD. There are some songs that you will like more than others, some yoeeds, 
EXTD=and you will find you cant stop playing it.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nBOOM, LIKE THAsee 
EXTD=as much in some veteran rockers. I was listening to KFOG San Francisco when "Boom, Like Tha R
EXTD=ay Kroc's hostile takover of the McDonald brothers business in San Bernardino) was rightly wr
EXTD=-La - He made the album right here in Malibu with a close knit order of musicians that Mark w
EXTD=anREVIEW\nHanging out with his brother...?, November 17, 2004\nReviewer: Sam Greenblatt\nThre
EXTD=e alit? As it turns out, a reasonable amount. I was expecting more of Mark Knopfler's country
EXTD=-infleopfler could not get more low-key than this without inviting his brother David around t
EXTD=o write  Telegraph Road, Sultans, Tunnel of Love, On Every Street) were minor-key epics. Now 
EXTD=he seems ll that, there is always something on a Knopfleralbum to satisfy, and for me this ca
EXTD=me in the "une to criticism from those expecting him to reprise Dire Straits' rock-hero indul
EXTD=gences. As hehe afternoon go by, that's fine by me. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nReturning
EXTD= to what made hn-esque folk in Shangri-La, his fourth solo album. There is, however, a little
EXTD= of the old rock raits disbanded. Where "Ragpicker's Dream" was mostly thirties-style blues a
EXTD=nd folk, "Shangri-Lr's Dream." Where that album concentrated on the beaten-down working man, 
EXTD=the Depression-era he who founded McDonald's, Ray Kroc, and how his original concept was turn
EXTD=ed into a sea of medioc. I think there's a kind of veiled reference to the founding of Las Ve
EXTD=gas in there, too. The tifrom the traditional-sounding "Donegon's Gone" to the Ragpicker-ish 
EXTD="Stand Up Guy." There's som Knopfler songs, with their eye for dialog and atmosphere. I inter
EXTD=preted the last track, "Don'tKnopfler delivers his usual grace and musical skill to thiseffor
EXTD=t. Well worth the price for hir 7, 2004\nReviewer: Clint Potts "Of course, that's just my opi
EXTD=nion. I could be wrong." (Arizon clean chalkboards. He wouldn't even have to play guitar. Per
EXTD=haps that is what he had in mind wg. On Shangri-La, he does little more than MK noodlings--th
EXTD=e kind of thing that could be heard  an amplifier and a herd of effects pedals. A prior edito
EXTD=rial review listed prominantly here dem rocks. It does not. There is no powerful guitar as fo
EXTD=und on Sailing to Philadelphia. There isstablished that there is no rock here. Let's look at 
EXTD=it in its proper place: Adult Easy Listenid from a busy day and don't mind if you pass out in
EXTD= the middle of track 7 and wake up with a puwork in the morning. "What it Is" rocksharder tha
EXTD=n any 6 songs on this CD combined. \n\nAll ina small taste of the Mark Knopfler you fell in l
EXTD=ove with in Dire Straits, perhaps you are bettesota)\nIn many important ways, music reviews a
EXTD=re as helpful as screen doors on a submarine. Peo was so thoroughly 80's without sounding dat
EXTD=ed. The fundamental shortcoming of this view is thaolder brother, just about when they stoppe
EXTD=d making music. I remember feeling how tragic this loy out. Dire Straits became my favorite b
EXTD=and and I have a deep love of every singlealbum the bage volume of work that is stylistically
EXTD= very similar to his new music. For example, the Brotherest Trick; Why Worry; Ride Across the
EXTD= River; The Man's Too Strong; Brothers in Arms \n\nNone ofhe radio despite its sleep walking 
EXTD=mood). \n\nGo back to any album from Dire Straits and you wive Over Gold; Portobello Belle; S
EXTD=ix Blade Knife; Telegraph Road; On Every Street... the list goration into American folk music
EXTD= was for the love ofthe craft. \n\nMark Knopfler is widely consl guitar into guiding the emot
EXTD=ion of his music, not just merely playing the notes on the page. s no different. \n\nIf you e
EXTD=njoyed all the music of Dire Straits and not just the radio hits, yr has taken a seat amongst
EXTD= modern music's hall of fame elite. He has matured into an adult's museem effortless, Mark Kn
EXTD=opfler's work, and Shangri-La is no exception, is an honor to experienc its tropical album ar
EXTD=t (the ugliest I have seen since the cover of JJ Cale's "Travelog"), "Shabout Mark Knopfler's
EXTD= aging voice - its harrowing echo like a call for help from mountains in thto these songs tha
EXTD=t surfaced only occasionally on his great but somewhat more eclectic previousment in "Shangri
EXTD=-la." \n\nIt seems that Knopfler's mature and broadening departure from the Dirbum descriptio
EXTD=n" above that this is Mark's "most rocking album since his halcyon days with Direin "What It 
EXTD=Is" and "Why Aye Man" respectively, here we start with the tender and narcotic "5:1ng For Son
EXTD=ny Liston," the grungey blues dirge inspired by Nick Tosches's fabulous biography, imatomic e
EXTD=xplosions. \n\nI admit that Mark gets a bit dull at times (especially on the sporadical have 
EXTD=been. Mark's guitar licks smack of a subtlety unprecedented even inhis own remarkable castene
EXTD=r (as on the distinctly Dylanesque "Whoop De Doo" or "The Trawlerman's Song"). For a guy f wi
EXTD=de-ranging collection of albums that achieve a depth and maturity rarely heard during the mo'
EXTD=s most enviable legacies will be left behind. \n\nHalf.com Details \nContributing artists: Gl
EXTD=e steel guitar); Guy Fletcher , Jim Cox (piano, organ); Glenn Worf (bass instrument); Chad Cr
EXTD=omwmid-1990s, he embarked on a proper post-Straits solo career. By the time of 2004's SHANGRI
EXTD=-LA, ch, which works wonderfully here. Knopfler keeps things low-key throughout most of SHANG
EXTD=RI-LA, usual topics on offer here; "Boom, Like That" is a first-person monologue by Knopfler 
EXTD=in the vold. "Donegan's Gone" laments the passing of British folk/skiffle pioneer Lonnie Done
EXTD=gan, a key LA more fully develops the detail-oriented, irony-laced songwriting style Knopfler
EXTD= first hintedasps of Tyne/Delta blues bewitchery.\n\n\n3 1/2 stars out of 5 - Mark Knopfler h
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