Let your mind wander and "Get Lucky"!

Published in 1996, Mark Knopfler released his first solo album - Golden Heart. Then he presented his audience a much more intimate heimatverbundenere and music, than at the time of the Dire Straits. After - Golden Heart - changed his musical direction Knopfler from album to album. So, for example, tended - Sailing To Philadelphia - again more towards Dire Straits, while the more sedate - Shangri-La - guitar melodies contained that reminded quite to the heydays of Shadows from the sixties.

Get Lucky - on the other hand, makes due to its irischen- and Scottish influences actually exactly up where the album - Golden Heart - 1996 ceased because Mark Knopfler spoiled us in this work again with eleven completely different songs that, at any time pleasant and beneficial similar to a wonderful vacation trip - Border Reiver - rushing through your ears. Thus, with the consistently warm atmosphere that creates this album, let downright dangle his soul, and his thoughts while leaving also run free. Mark Knopfler leaves us not only lean musically to his hard shoulder - Hard Shoulder - but offers to us - Get Lucky - with the song - You Can not Beat the House - also for the first time surprising "Sixties blues", and sparked immediately following it with the song - Before Gas And TV - even a great fire atmosphere, beyond civilization.

Also - Monteleone - leaves us with his classically arranged film intro, and then the very subtle and quiet instrumentalization continue to dream in front of the fireplace. Only when - Cleaning My Gun - carries us the master with its rocking riffs and the famous "Dire Straits guitar sound" again, but only for a short time, from our thoughts, because even with the next song - What The Car The One - again follows a very quiet title, the result of his arrangements well also very good on the album - would have fit - Shangri-La.

The title - Remembrance Day - is for me a very special song, because in addition to the typical and distinctive Fingertappings Knopfler the guitar, first heard in the chorus a children's choir discreetly in the background to give us this story forever singing in the memory.

The title track - Get Lucky - is then a completely inconspicuous acoustic song that sparked his hidden musical qualities only after several Hördurchläufen on quite miraculously. The album - Get Lucky - ends with a grand finale, because what Mark Knopfler here on the two titles - So Far From The Clyde - and - Piper To The End - offers is just really great. Two consummate song with the infamous Knopfler guitar solos create with me goosebumps. Hear this album "Get Lucky". It is one of the best Mark Knopfler has done so far.