CD and vinyl boxes available Dec 10th

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Mark Knopfler’s debut solo release Golden Heart in 1996, a new boxed set, The Studio Albums 1996-2007, will be released on December 10th across 6 CDs and 11 LPs. The box will feature Mark Knopfler’s first five studio albums as a solo artist – Golden Heart (1996), Sailing To Philadelphia (2000), The Ragpicker’s Dream (2002), Shangri-La (2004), and Kill To Get Crimson (2007) – plus an exclusive bonus disc of studio B-sides from this period entitled Gravy Train: The B-Sides 1996-2007. The box will be released in vinyl (11 LPs) and CD (six discs) formats. This will be the first time Golden Heart, Sailing To Philadelphia and Gravy Train: The B-Sides 1996-2007 have been released on vinyl.

The audio of each album has been newly remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios in London and the LPs will be pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. The boxed set will include a download card and six embossed art prints of each of the albums covers. The CD set will come housed in a deluxe clamshell box with the CDs in wallets with folded double-sided printed inserts, plus six beautiful art cards of each of the album covers.

Mark Knopfler, singer-songwriter, record producer and composer, is one of the most successful musicians the UK has ever produced and is often cited as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He first came to prominence in the 80s as leader of Dire Straits, who created many of the signature songs of the era including “Sultans Of Swing,” “Money For Nothing,” “Romeo And Juliet,” and “Walk Of Life.” The band broke up in 1995 and Knopfler set off on a new path as a solo artist. In the ensuing years, Knopfler has released nine solo albums of sophisticated rootsy rock and has continued to tour the globe with his band, delighting audiences wherever he goes.

Over the years, Knopfler has written the music for several films, including Local Hero , Cal, The Princess Bride, Last Exit To Brooklyn and Wag The Dog and has played and recorded with many artists, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Tina Turner, Randy Newman and the late Chet Atkins. Knopfler was made an OBE in 1999 and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ivor Novellos in 2012.

6 CD | 11 LP

CD 1: Golden Heart

  1. Darling Pretty
  2. Imelda
  3. Golden Heart
  4. No Can Do
  5. Vic And Ray
  6. Don’t You Get It
  7. A Night In Summer Long Ago
  8. Cannibals
  9. I’m The Fool
  10. Je Suis Désolé
  11. Rüdiger
  12. Nobody’s Got The Gun
  13. Done With Bonaparte
  14. Are We In Trouble Now

CD 2: Sailing To Philadelphia

  1. What It Is
  2. Sailing To Philadelphia
  3. Who’s Your Baby Now
  4. Baloney Again
  5. The Last Laugh
  6. Do America
  7. Silvertown Blues
  8. El Macho
  9. Prairie Wedding
  10. Wanderlust
  11. Speedway At Nazareth
  12. Junkie Doll
  13. Sands Of Nevada
  14. One More Matinee

CD 3: The Ragpicker’s Dream

  1. Why Aye Man
  2. Devil Baby
  3. Hill Farmer’s Blues
  4. A Place Where We Used To Live
  5. Quality Shoe
  6. Fare Thee Well Northumberland
  7. Marbletown
  8. You Don’t Know You’re Born
  9. Coyote
  10. The Ragpicker’s Dream
  11. Daddy’s Gone To Knoxville
  12. Old Pigweed

CD 4: Shangri-La

  1. 5.15 a.m.
  2. Boom, Like That
  3. Sucker Row
  4. The Trawlerman’s Song
  5. Back To Tupelo
  6. Our Shangri-La
  7. Everybody Pays
  8. Song For Sonny Liston
  9. Whoop De Doo
  10. Postcards From Paraguay
  11. All That Matters
  12. Stand Up Guy
  13. Donegan’s Gone
  14. Don’t Crash The Ambulance

CD 5: Kill To Get Crimson

  1. True Love Will Never Fade
  2. The Scaffolder’s Wife
  3. The Fizzy And The Still
  4. Heart Full Of Holes
  5. We Can Get Wild
  6. Secondary Waltz
  7. Punish The Monkey
  8. Let It All Go
  9. Behind With The Rent
  10. The Fish And The Bird
  11. Madame Geneva’s
  12. In The Sky

CD 6: Gravy Train: The B-Sides 1996-2007

  1. Small Potatoes
  2. What Have I Got To Do
  3. Gravy Train
  4. My Claim To Fame
  5. Summer Of Love
  6. Camerado
  7. Tall Order Baby
  8. Let’s See You
  9. The Long Highway