Adding a new rhythm guitarist, Dire Straits expands its sounds and ambitions on the sprawling Love Over Gold. In a sense, the album is their prog rock effort, containing only five songs, including the 14-minute opener "Telegraph Road." Since Mark Knopfler is a skilled, tasteful guitarist, he can sustain interest even throughout the languid stretches, but the long, atmospheric, instrumental passages aren't as effective as the group's tight lues-rock, leaving Love Over Gold only a fitfully engaging listen.
And so, On XM Fine Tuning, which plays classical stuff alongside progressive rock, alongside the Duhks, I hear the song, "Telegraph Road." [This song is one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes for a few reasons. I'm a sucker for a slow tune that builds into a rocking tune by the end. It clocks in at 15 minutes without an outrageous drum solo. Hell, they must be talking about something dramatic, r...
Telegraph Road," is the opening track of "Love Over Gold." In a little over 14 minutes, the song rises from a simple opening melody, evoking the loneliness of that man walking along a deserted track at the beginning of the song's story, to a final guitar solo. In between, there are no less than two other guitar solos, each of them over a minute long; dramatic centerpieces in their own right in ...
And so, On XM Fine Tuning, which plays classical stuff alongside progressive rock, alongside the Duhks, I hear the song, "Telegraph Road." [This song is one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes for a few reasons. I'm a sucker for a slow tune that builds into a rocking tune by the end. It clocks in at 15 minutes without an outrageous drum solo. Hell, they must be talking about something dramatic, r...