Things Have Changed

Let's go beyond mellow and laid-back and sluggishly stumble our way to the almost comatose.  Get your favorite drink, relax in a comfor...

From 2000, the title song from Mark Knopfler's album Sailing To Philadelphia, the only pop song about the two surveyors of the Mason-Dix...

The final scene from Local Hero.  I've loved this movie since seeing it with Mrs THC more than 40 years ago.  The soundtrack by Mark Kno...

One of my favorite pieces of music.  An exquisite and moving song about a love gone awry due to bad timing.  Beautiful melody, lyrics, and m...

 Brian Johnson (AC/DC) and Mark Knopfler are both from the North of England, Newcastle to be specific.  Brian has done a series of interview...

Today marks 38 years since the release of Dire Straits fifth studio album Brothers In Arms, which has sold more than 30 million copies world...

Let's go beyond mellow and laid-back and sluggishly stumble our way to the almost comatose.  It's a quiet Saturday night, sit back ...

Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire I've witnessed your suffering As the battles raged higher And though we were hurt s...

From the second season of Miami Vice, a show I watched very infrequently.  Closing scene of the episode Out Where The Buses Don't Run . ...

This is what is called Victor's Song from the movie Local Hero.  It is not on the wonderful soundtrack from the movie, composed by Mark ...

 Composed by Mark Knopfler for the movie Cal (1983).

A tribute played by Mark Knopfler for his friend, Formula One driver, Sir Stirling Moss, who passed last month.   From the movie Local Hero....

This started out as simply a post of a concert version of Mark Knopfler's Brothers In Arms from the final show of his 2019 tour.  One o...

Read recently that this year marks the 50th anniversary of Zefferelli's movie version of Romeo & Juliet which got me thinking of the...

THC feels like something relaxing right now.  The Mist Covered Mountains , composed by Mark Knopfler for the soundtrack to the movie Local H...

Another Dragontape mix - this time the distinctive guitar stylings of Mark Knopfler , from his days with Dire Straits , as a solo artist and...

In putting together another Dragontape mix - this one on Mark Knopfler - THC came across this video of the theme song from the movie Local ...

Mark Knopfler at his most Mark Knopfleresque.  From his 2000 solo album. The Drinking Dens Are Spilling Out There's Staggering In...

Let's bring you down from the frenetic energy of Sam Kinison in yesterday's post.  In fact, let's go beyond mellow and laid-back...