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DISCID=b90f8e0e
DTITLE=Mark Knopfler / Shangri-La
DYEAR=2004
DGENRE=Country
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+DV
EXTD=DA Edition Released January 11s collarbone, shoulder, and seven r
EXTD=ibs in a motorcycle crash in March 2003, finds the eternallybulan
EXTD=ce" aside -- he uses his warm baritone and effortless guitar work
EXTD= to ruminate on everythin("Boom, Like That"). Knopfler has more o
EXTD=r less abandoned the British folk and Celtic-influencedd bluesy, 
EXTD=midtempo dirges that revel in their uncharacteristic sparseness -
EXTD=- one of the better  his melancholic slow-burn tone is as peat-sm
EXTD=oked as ever, and his penchant for wrapping Americ5:15 A.M." -- i
EXTD=s evident throughout. Dynamically, Shangri-La loses steam about t
EXTD=hree-quarters oovers of Chet Atkins, Gordon Lightfoot, and J.J. C
EXTD=ale, as well as late-night poker players and  Monger\n\nAmazon.co
EXTD=m Editorial Review\nMark Knopfler isn't afraid to drop names. The
EXTD= heavyweigass through Knopfler's fourth solo album. Recorded in M
EXTD=alibu with a tight crew of steadfast Knodelivered with the noncha
EXTD=lant grace that has marked Knopfler's music since Dire Straits em
EXTD=ergedoose the thread, either. As a songwriter, Knopfler has a sto
EXTD=ryteller's eye for minutiae, which ulls off a few career highligh
EXTD=ts (the understated crime-drama opener "5.15 a.m."). --Steve Stol
EXTD= rocking album since his halcyon days in Dire Straits. A four- ti
EXTD=me Grammy winner who has sold im one of rock's most admired artis
EXTD=ts -- Knopfler offers an idyllic earthly refuge for the soph "Bri
EXTD=an Archibald" (Louisville, KY)\nCan't say enough about this album
EXTD=. I got it as traditionaln this format. The positive reviews on t
EXTD=he mix were even more encouraging. I've got a dedicatedh-end syst
EXTD=em, but it'll hold its own. \nI have to say that I was disapointe
EXTD=d when I heard the a voice and instuments. The idea of 5 channel 
EXTD=separation is a wonderful thing when done right -amay love it; to
EXTD= me, it's unbalanced and makes for a frustrating listening experi
EXTD=ence. -Brian\n\nfine wine: Unappreciated by children. \n\nMr. Kno
EXTD=pfler writes songs that examine the deeper thiheart is music that
EXTD= the majority of listeners overlook in their haste for a quick fi
EXTD=x, for the lmost any other recording artist out there. \n\nIt tak
EXTD=es a few listens to begin to gather what something new each time.
EXTD= \n\nMusic like this is wasted on the shallow and obtuse. For gro
EXTD=wn peog Rocker" (MD, USA)\nAs one who grew up in the UK with Dire
EXTD= Straits and still regards them as ooods and tastes and it's as i
EXTD=f he knows where I am in my own aging process. It's his lyrics, a
EXTD=lg melodies to carry around. Mark Knopfler has a way of making yo
EXTD=u "see" his music. "5:15 a.m." to both the late, great Elvis and 
EXTD=Lonnie! Even if your political views don't quite mesh, "Don'tf pl
EXTD=ace with the lyrics but somehow fits so perfectly. Add: "Everybod
EXTD=y Pays," Shangri-la," "Whosiness, Success and Corruption, January
EXTD= 27, 2006\nReviewer: C U LADA (NJ, USA)\nI was gifted th on the f
EXTD=irst of December. For some reason, the colder the morning, the be
EXTD=tter these songs soun that warmed my soul. \n\nI am unable to art
EXTD=iculate words and phrases that describe the music, for most other
EXTD=s. Be alone, whether it's in your car or at home. And turn it up 
EXTD=so you can feel  \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nNo sir, I don't 
EXTD=like it, January 2, 2006\nReviewer: Dr. Rock\napproach to his gui
EXTD=tar solos on his past few albums I felt that this one was lacking
EXTD= too much iITAR GOD and his work should reflect this. \n\nAs for 
EXTD=the songs themselves only a few were ableatters" and "Stand up Gu
EXTD=y" were all right; and the rest of the album didn't really do it 
EXTD=for men\nI'm sure the long-time fans will get something from this
EXTD= album, but if you're new to Knopfle with you more sir, when you 
EXTD=say "MK sounds like MK and DS sounds like DS". My review, however
EXTD=,, which is quite clearly not true (with the possible exception o
EXTD=f "BLT"). As I said before, "Gorry. This one takes its time., May
EXTD= 27, 2005\nReviewer: P. Microulis (North Providence, RI USA)\nwhe
EXTD=n you take a little time to relax with these songs, resist the im
EXTD=pulse to be instantly judgeforget or dont always give him due for
EXTD= his storytelling. And the collection of riff-raff that i. And ev
EXTD=en though you know them, you find that he's telling you something
EXTD= new. \n\nBut how abou but when it does, you will know just who h
EXTD=e is and how he feels. A nobody who will never be ana lot of over
EXTD=done on this CD. There are some songs that you will like more tha
EXTD=n others, some yoeeds, and you will find you cant stop playing it
EXTD=.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nBOOM, LIKE THAsee as much in som
EXTD=e veteran rockers. I was listening to KFOG San Francisco when "Bo
EXTD=om, Like Tha Ray Kroc's hostile takover of the McDonald brothers 
EXTD=business in San Bernardino) was rightly wr-La - He made the album
EXTD= right here in Malibu with a close knit order of musicians that M
EXTD=ark wanREVIEW\nHanging out with his brother...?, November 17, 200
EXTD=4\nReviewer: Sam Greenblatt\nThree alit? As it turns out, a reaso
EXTD=nable amount. I was expecting more of Mark Knopfler's country-inf
EXTD=leopfler could not get more low-key than this without inviting hi
EXTD=s brother David around to write  Telegraph Road, Sultans, Tunnel 
EXTD=of Love, On Every Street) were minor-key epics. Now he seems ll t
EXTD=hat, there is always something on a Knopfler album to satisfy, an
EXTD=d for me this came in the "une to criticism from those expecting 
EXTD=him to reprise Dire Straits' rock-hero indulgences. As hehe after
EXTD=noon go by, that's fine by me. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nRe
EXTD=turning to what made hn-esque folk in Shangri-La, his fourth solo
EXTD= album. There is, however, a little of the old rock raits disband
EXTD=ed. Where "Ragpicker's Dream" was mostly thirties-style blues and
EXTD= folk, "Shangri-Lr's Dream." Where that album concentrated on the
EXTD= beaten-down working man, the Depression-era he who founded McDon
EXTD=ald's, Ray Kroc, and how his original concept was turned into a s
EXTD=ea of medioc. I think there's a kind of veiled reference to the f
EXTD=ounding of Las Vegas in there, too. The tifrom the traditional-so
EXTD=unding "Donegon's Gone" to the Ragpicker-ish "Stand Up Guy." Ther
EXTD=e's som Knopfler songs, with their eye for dialog and atmosphere.
EXTD= I interpreted the last track, "Don'tKnopfler delivers his usual 
EXTD=grace and musical skill to this effort. Well worth the price for 
EXTD=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 e
EXTD=ven have to play guitar. Perhaps that is what he had in mind wg. 
EXTD=On Shangri-La, he does little more than MK noodlings--the kind of
EXTD= thing that could be heard  an amplifier and a herd of effects pe
EXTD=dals. A prior editorial review listed prominantly here dem rocks.
EXTD= It does not. There is no powerful guitar as found on Sailing to 
EXTD=Philadelphia. There isstablished that there is no rock here. Let'
EXTD=s look at it in its proper place: Adult Easy Listenid from a busy
EXTD= day and don't mind if you pass out in the middle of track 7 and 
EXTD=wake up with a puwork in the morning. "What it Is" rocks harder t
EXTD=han any 6 songs on this CD combined. \n\nAll ina small taste of t
EXTD=he Mark Knopfler you fell in love with in Dire Straits, perhaps y
EXTD=ou are bettesota)\nIn many important ways, music reviews are as h
EXTD=elpful as screen doors on a submarine. Peo was so thoroughly 80's
EXTD= without sounding dated. The fundamental shortcoming of this view
EXTD= is thaolder brother, just about when they stopped making music. 
EXTD=I remember feeling how tragic this loy out. Dire Straits became m
EXTD=y favorite band and I have a deep love of every single album the 
EXTD=bage volume of work that is stylistically very similar to his new
EXTD= music. For example, the Brotherest Trick; Why Worry; Ride Across
EXTD= the River; The Man's Too Strong; Brothers in Arms \n\nNone ofhe 
EXTD=radio despite its sleep walking mood). \n\nGo back to any album f
EXTD=rom Dire Straits and you wive Over Gold; Portobello Belle; Six Bl
EXTD=ade Knife; Telegraph Road; On Every Street... the list goration i
EXTD=nto American folk music was for the love of the craft. \n\nMark K
EXTD=nopfler is widely consl guitar into guiding the emotion of his mu
EXTD=sic, not just merely playing the notes on the page. s no differen
EXTD=t. \n\nIf you enjoyed all the music of Dire Straits and not just 
EXTD=the radio hits, yr has taken a seat amongst modern music's hall o
EXTD=f fame elite. He has matured into an adult's museem effortless, M
EXTD=ark Knopfler's work, and Shangri-La is no exception, is an honor 
EXTD=to experienc its tropical album art (the ugliest I have seen sinc
EXTD=e the cover of JJ Cale's "Travelog"), "Shabout Mark Knopfler's ag
EXTD=ing voice - its harrowing echo like a call for help from mountain
EXTD=s in thto these songs that surfaced only occasionally on his grea
EXTD=t but somewhat more eclectic previousment in "Shangri-la." \n\nIt
EXTD= seems that Knopfler's mature and broadening departure from the D
EXTD=irbum description" above that this is Mark's "most rocking album 
EXTD=since his halcyon days with Direin "What It Is" and "Why Aye Man"
EXTD= respectively, here we start with the tender and narcotic "5:1ng 
EXTD=For Sonny Liston," the grungey blues dirge inspired by Nick Tosch
EXTD=es's fabulous biography, imatomic explosions. \n\nI admit that Ma
EXTD=rk gets a bit dull at times (especially on the sporadical have be
EXTD=en. Mark's guitar licks smack of a subtlety unprecedented even in
EXTD= his own remarkable castener (as on the distinctly Dylanesque "Wh
EXTD=oop De Doo" or "The Trawlerman's Song"). For a guy f wide-ranging
EXTD= collection of albums that achieve a depth and maturity rarely he
EXTD=ard during the mo's most enviable legacies will be left behind. \n
EXTD=\nHalf.com Details \nContributing artists: Gle steel guitar); Guy
EXTD= Fletcher , Jim Cox (piano, organ); Glenn Worf (bass instrument);
EXTD= Chad Cromwmid-1990s, he embarked on a proper post-Straits solo c
EXTD=areer. By the time of 2004's SHANGRI-LA, ch, which works wonderfu
EXTD=lly here. Knopfler keeps things low-key throughout most of SHANGR
EXTD=I-LA, usual topics on offer here; "Boom, Like That" is a first-pe
EXTD=rson monologue by Knopfler in the vold. "Donegan's Gone" laments 
EXTD=the passing of British folk/skiffle pioneer Lonnie Donegan, a key
EXTD= LA more fully develops the detail-oriented, irony-laced songwrit
EXTD=ing style Knopfler first hintedasps of Tyne/Delta blues bewitcher
EXTD=y.\n\n\n3 1/2 stars out of 5 - Mark Knopfler has grown into o
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