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NEW ALBUM: DAVID KNOPFLER ~ Songs of Loss and Love - Ruby - 11-01-2021 DAVID KNOPFLER ~ Songs of Loss and Love I tried ... again. This album is actually better for me that the one before, I think - but it's about 10 minutes too long. Such a strange thing - nothing wrong with the music or the lyrics - he just ends up getting a bit dreary after a while. Doesn't have a great voice which is a shame - maybe he'd be better off with a co-vocalist or something, in fact there are some background vocals here which do go some way towards saving the day, and he overdubs his own voice now and then. Anyway - it's not terrible, there are some pleasant enough songs - very gentle, heartfelt, and quite somber. He's beginning to sound somewhat Dylan-like in places - shades of Waits too - not quite as gruff. Like his brother, he has a love for storytelling, and he's certainly no slouch in that department. Some nice pedal steel guitar courtesy of one Melvin Duffy, Harry Bogdanovs and Hal Lindes are here too - sax is Oliver Weston, cello George Shilling. "Grace of My Girls" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROXGZ5jUXhk "This Isn't Kansas Anymore" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSH9DeA6Eqc   "The Sun's Going Down" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMoLTi7cQs RE: NEW ALBUM: DAVID KNOPFLER ~ Songs of Loss and Love - Jerome - 12-01-2021 Really like the cover pic - very good. He definitely needs a session vocalist to interpret his material. RE: NEW ALBUM: DAVID KNOPFLER ~ Songs of Loss and Love - CRAZY-HORSE - 12-01-2021 i agree with you two about guest vocalists to interperate his songs... first two names that come to mind are: Maggie Reilly and Kirsty MacColl. sadly Maggie is now probably too old and Kirsty, God rest her soul, is deceased but voices like theirs would fit perfectly with Knopfler's songs.