Recaps ...

Full marks for fans of Solo Artist Mark Knopfler.

1-2 points for 'Stuck in past' Dire Straits fans ... (which will not realize how much 'Tracker' but has to do with the early years of the Straits) 'and for those a bitter Watschn' that later among the bonus tracks ...

No 'there is again no' Money for nothing '' so that some are likely to save time and do not need more.

Even more than ever said goodbye Mr. Knopfler of his own virtuosity as a guitar player to let speak the song itself, and also to challenge the listener to understand its timbre (the ultra / extra-monotonic 'Broken Bones' alá JJ Cale should, as he said as a demo sound, unfinished, rough. According turned the bass deafened but belonging as a heavyweight battle with 'Broken Bones' ...)

An interesting aspect: while the 'main album' is very intimate and quiet, the bonus tracks are much more rock and guitar-oriented, so the deluxe kits expand the portfolio of this work again to a different color.

Right at the beginning of the Jazz breathes through a pub somewhere in London, the opener develops with some 'Border Reiver' influence to a rousing ode to the youth of fresh beer and friendship 'of living the beginning of a very private album, who is reading the lyrics exactly , recognizes always the artist personally. Class number full of playfulness and an audible good-humored Knopfler at the microphone.

Basil is sometimes the most beautiful song, wonderfully added to the warm analog tones (Tracker was fully recorded on tape machines) from British Grove London, a very typical Knopfler song, earthy and also autobiographical. The 'Remembrance Day' meets here 'So Far From The Clyde' -

Another highlight: Skydiver. A Beatles song that was never written by the Beatles, so to speak, but here could sing Sir Paul. Unfamiliar sounds with many vocal colors of ribbon, wonderful and very oldschool British.

Mighty Man's 'Fish and the Bird' Part 2, heavy, wistfully.

With Lights of Taormina, the band reflects the venues for the last tour ... again a slow song, accompanied by slide guitar, the accordion sets in a wider soundscape of screams for wanderlust.

Silver Eagle, again very withdrawn a song about an event in recent years, the music, the text in the foreground says Knopfler of his tour bus of the Dylan tour.

Long Cool Girl: whimpers again the slide guitar that has clearly replaced the fenders, combined with clear blows to the acoustic guitar. a simple private song about the daughter of John Illsley. The song is one of those 'Grower', which are a gem after repeated listening.

Beryl, the typical Straits sound, long recognized as single out ...

Wherever I Go: grandiose duet - ballad, the album ends heavy and melancholic.

But then. Encore.

There are many interesting bonus tracks on various albums versions:

The Media Markt Album:
Hot Dog: the most rocking number of all songs (besides "Oklahoma Ponies"), reminiscent of 'Millionaire Blues' and 'Imelda'

And then it's done:
'Terminal of Tribute to'
This extra song contains 'Beryl' the largest proportion of solo guitar playing.
And the highlight:
A bitter reckoning with the past and the former Dire Straits musicians who draw as Dire Straits tribute band through Europe

On the road again in Cabaret
Grey hair and Fenders
Old ghosts revisited today
No original members

So offensively you Knopfler lyrics rarely experienced. And the text is even more cynical.
And then he grabs the electric guitar but tighter, turning the volume knob up, the sound is heavy, the drums are mixed front and just this song sounds again after very Dire Straits in the 90s, but could also be by Clapton. 'Terminal of Tribute to' is one of the hidden highlights of Tracker ... The question remains, why he did not land on the main list of the album ... interpretation open.

Heart of Oak:
Small acoustical song. Will definitely not the Viva Singlecharts conquer (!!)

.38 Special
An uptempo acoustic Hill Billie number, a touch of 'Marble Town'

Oklahoma Ponies
At the end of the Bonus Deluxe Edition shortly Brian May of Queen seems drop by in the intro - and the guitar is loud. Again, a rock number. Back on the Bonus Part - ultimately is "Tracker" nothing but Privateerings double album with a number of very worthwhile bonus tracks, exactly the appeal to a part of the people to whom the main album is too quiet. The purchase of the Limited Edition is worthwhile to know definitely at the entire repertoire of the 2014 session.

The whole thing closes with a traditional small song.

CONCLUSION

'Tracker' is a very dense album, with Knopfler probably forever by all radio - passed charts in the world. Striking the very crisp, clear sound of the album is in contrast to previous albums, that is: the sound of 'Tracker' on an official system is a stunner, the sounds of the individual instruments sit crystal clear and the warm tones fill the room. The sound is much more differentiated than 'privateering' or 'Get Lucky'

Tracker will again polarize massively.
The more you clean sounds, the more you generally and also to his own 'superstar' status over white Knopfler and his relationship with the music industry, the more do not develop the songs, only certainly, at one hearing ...
The guitar player with the headband 'has left the building'.
Mark Knopfler ... not.
He never has more denied, even attach a song the obligatory solo. He lets it go away easily. He was never the Dire Straits also, and yet so close: 'Beryl' with the Sultans of Swing intro that 'Water of Love' intro of 'Taormina', the view in the opener (People would go on Their Different Ways' I left to start a band) and 'Terminal of tribute to' - the past employs Knopfler. That is to hear ... exciting. Anyone who takes the time ... will be rewarded.