Mark Knopfler’s long-awaited new album, One Deep River, his tenth studio album as a solo artist, has just been released.
One Deep River is composed of an unstoppable succession of future Knopfler classics, with refined guitar textures. These songs are based on a lifetime of influences that cross genres such as blues, folk, rock and much more and, as always, reveal their charms with a disarming naturalness and depth.
One Deep River was produced by Knopfler and longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher and was recorded at London’s state-of-the-art British Grove Studios.
The band features Mark Knopfler on guitars, Jim Cox and Guy Fletcher on keyboards, Glenn Worf on bass, Ian Thomas on drums and Danny Cummings on percussion, Richard Bennett on guitar and Greg Leisz on pedal electric guitar and Hawaiian guitar, Mike McGoldrick plays tin whistle and Irish harmonica, and John McCusker plays fiddle, while Topolski sisters Emma and Tamsin sing choirs. The songs were written by Mark Knopfler.
Mark Knopfler, singer, songwriter and record producer, is one of the most successful musicians the UK has ever produced and is often cited as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as the leader of Dire Straits, who created many of the era’s signature songs. Knopfler in 1995 and began a new path as a solo artist. Over the next few years, Knopfler released nine solo albums of sophisticated rock and continued to tour the world with his band. Over the years, Mark has written songs for several films, including “Local Hero”, “Cal”, “The Princess Bride”, “Last Exit To Brooklyn” and “Wag The Dog”, and has performed and recorded with numerous artists including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris, Tina Turner, Randy Newman and Chet Atkins. Knopfler was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1999 and received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ivor Novellos Awards in 2012.
2024 has been a very busy year for Mark. In January, Mark Knopfler’s guitar collection was auctioned at Christie’s, with several guitars selling for record amounts. On March 15, Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes released a chilling recreation of the song “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)”, by a who’s who of history’s most legendary guitarists, for the charities Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.
Mark has teamed up with Brian Johnson, lead singer of the legendary AC/DC, to make a new six-part TV series for Sky Arts titled “Johnson & Knopfler’s Music Legends”. The two friends take a fascinating look at the history of popular music alongside several special guests, including Tom Jones, Sam Fender, Carlos Santana, Cyndi Lauper, Nile Rodgers, Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill. The series will air on Sky Arts from April 25th.
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