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Mark Knopfler

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Mark Knopfler

Murdo MacLeod/Courtesy of the artist

For Mark Knopfler, music has been a lifelong ardour, and it has been a well-rewarded one. The quite a few accolades he is obtained would take us too lengthy to listing, however amongst them are a number of Grammy Awards, a handful of honorary doctorate levels, and a spot within the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame along with his band Dire Straits.

However, as you may hear in right this moment’s session, it’s possible you’ll get the sense that he’d be simply as comfortable making music perpetually even with out all that recognition. Knopfler merely loves doing it. He must. His newest album is his tenth solo outing, titled One Deep River. We’ll discuss concerning the album, the way in which Knopfler works in his studio, and the drive it takes to make it as a musician.

He additionally appears again on Dire Straits, time spent within the Nashville within the 80s, and remembers what it was like when he first labored with Bob Dylan.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The net story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.