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The third Dire Straits vinyl reissue  – Making Movies is confirmed by Warner Bros. The reissue (cat. nbr.  093624969716) is scheduled for April 20, 2010.

The album (as well as  first Dire Straits album and Communique) was mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analogue tapes and pressed on 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl. The album is available for pre-order at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de.

The last vinyl reissue – Love Over Gold is expected to be released in May 2010.

The new non-album track Time In The Sun as well as Early Bird are available on 13 track digital album at Amazon.com:

Warner Bros. Records is set to release Mark Knopfler’s new recording Get Lucky on September 15. This is the sixth solo studio album from the legendary musician and follows 2007’s highly successful Kill To Get Crimson, which Rolling Stone heralded as “a gem” and USA Today described as, “…yet another unpretentious showcase for his unmistakable gifts as a musician, tunesmith and storyteller.”

Recorded at Knopfler’s award-winning British Grove Studios in West London, Get Lucky was co-produced with longtime collaborators, engineer Chuck Ainlay and keyboardist Guy Fletcher and featured Richard Bennett, Danny Cummings, John McCusker, Matt Rollings and Glenn Worf. The 11-track album explores a lifetime of musical roots exemplified by the title track. “The first itinerant person I ever met would sing in soul bands in winter, then work part-time in fairgrounds or ‘go pick fruit down south’ when the weather turned warm,” explains Knopfler. “I was about 15 years old, stuck in school and envious. ‘Get Lucky’ came from him and other traveling characters I went on to meet in places I’d find myself working short-term, like farms, warehouses, building sites, before I got lucky with my songs.”

All proceeds from the single “Remembrance Day” will go toward The Poppy Appeal, which supports The Royal British Legion, a U.K. charity providing support to the serving and ex-service community and their dependents.

When they agreed the unwritten law that time-honored artists with brilliant track records get less creative as they go on, Mark Knopfler obviously wasn’t paying attention. He was too busy writing, recording, touring and enjoying it all.

So as we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and other multi-million-sellers nudge their careers forward at a snail’s pace, Knopfler prepares to release his fifth studio album of the decade, and it’s another jewel.

Get Lucky, recorded at his award-winning British Grove Studios in west London and co-produced with longtime cohorts Chuck Ainlay and Guy Fletcher, is a beautifully crafted exploration of a lifetime of musical roots. (more…)