<![CDATA[ Latest from Guitar Player in Mark-knopfler ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/tag/mark-knopfler Fri, 01 May 2026 19:23:10 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “It was like getting into a swimming pool with lead weights tied to your boot.” Mark Knopfler on his grueling 10-hour Steely Dan session that resulted in just seconds of music ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-on-his-grueling-10-hour-steely-dan-session L2YCNvpRTPtEZFiJiBEbvQ Fri, 01 May 2026 19:23:10 +0000 Mon, 04 May 2026 12:27:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Bob had a little saboteur in him." Mark Knopfler on his difficult collaboration with his childhood hero, Bob Dylan ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-on-bob-dylan xPixABf9u8AnofSpeMd55m Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:20:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It has such a great story behind it. There's lots of provenance to this guitar.” Mark Knopfler borrowed this 12-string electric for 50 years and played it on some famous songs with Dire Straits. Now it could be yours ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitars/electric-guitars/mark-knopflers-baldwin-burns-double-sixguitar-auction M34gWUJAT4sKKjHJ83c5SS Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:26:07 +0000 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:43:08 +0000 <![CDATA[ Mark Knopfler says three bouts of COVID have stunted his abilities – but he'll get over it ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopflers-brothers-in-arms-admission Bca4wYAYe5QS3PJ4RujQ7Y Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I said, ‘I can’t take this, Tony.’ And he said, ‘Hell, take it; I don’t want the damn thing.’” Mark Knopfler on the guitar he is “never without” — and the rock legend who gave it to him ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-on-the-guitar-he-is-never-without rztL87fKJRNVhmzxqC5wcd Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:56:31 +0000 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:20:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ “If you’re the one who wrote the songs, you’re kind of allowed to be crap.” Mark Knopfler says it's “awkward” to be called a guitar god and tells who deserves the title ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-on-not-being-a-guitar-god-and-who-is 5RvEgXMbbwnkbH9n4PfjeE Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:49:28 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I was sleeping on the floor in somebody’s apartment.” Mark Knopfler on the moment he discovered the virtues of fingerpicking — and the pedal that’s essential to his guitar rig ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-the-moment-i-discovered-fingerstyle-guitar DkR53GYXMUSMEVewfdxbhC Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:14:36 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It's a cheap guitar, and I did everything wrong, but I think they’re perfect notes.” Mark Knopfler on the guitar solo he calls even better than Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-on-the-solo-he-calls-better-than-sultans-of-swing TTw9F42ToaGXvQhJQHuWTR Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:46:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The intro guitar sound was somewhat of an accident.” Mark Knopfler’s now-famous tone on a Dire Straits monster hit was all down to dumb luck ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/mark-knopfler-guitar-tone-on-dire-straits-hit-down-to-dumb-luck h424TEaonM3r6tqKcC5Nxg Fri, 23 May 2025 14:59:53 +0000 Fri, 23 May 2025 15:00:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Playing four notes to the bar with your thumb changed everything for me.” Mark Knopfler grew up wanting to be like Jimi Hendrix. He's revealed the guitarist who changed his mind ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-fingerpicking-and-four-notes-to-the-bar WFGWcgWGALfa8bSAC8Fi2h Tue, 20 May 2025 15:32:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I’m pretty sure I played a lot of that stuff without looking." Mark Knopfler called it his most challenging Dire Straits song to perform. The reason has nothing to do with the guitar part ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/mark-knopfler-on-the-most-challenging-song-to-play-live LypGsGv7N3CjNNwzdhd95T Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:05:24 +0000 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:08:27 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Lack of use, plus three bouts of COVID, probably phased out the plectrum for me”: Mark Knopfler tells why he’s ditched the pick in favor of fingerpicking ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/mark-knopfler-tells-why-he-ditched-his-pick V5MSfyiecSmEFFbmV933ne Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:43:09 +0000 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:18:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ "They sort of appear as if they are out there in the air. The best ones do. But I don’t know how they get there." David Gilmour talks soloing in Guitar Player's guide to the Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time gviGFZB7g47jARwMjHQS8g Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:09:56 +0000 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:24:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It won the audition for a whole pile of songs”: Mark Knopfler teams up with music therapy charity Nordoff and Robbins to give away a signed – and extremely rare – Boswell acoustic ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/mark-knopfler-boswell-charity-giveaway BfZhKuvivYPNNB8TdG7A9L Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:29:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Chet Atkins told me, ‘A guitar’s your friend for life. It’ll be your best friend.’ And they are. They’re wonderful companions”: Mark Knopfler on the guitars he couldn't send to auction, and that all-star version of Going Home ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/mark-knopfler-one-deep-river MrZUikQa97PHGVPaG3GxFR Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:41:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Whenever you switch back to your pick, it’ll be even more fun to have its signature attack back”: There’s a reason everyone from Eddie Van Halen to Lindsey Buckingham and Mark Knopfler have made fingerstyle part of their repertoire ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/lessons/van-halen-knopfler-buckingham-fingerstyle-lesson QtFYuzWZZouRf85dfSPG24 Fri, 10 May 2024 21:33:22 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:27 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Jeff was just something other, you know?”: Mark Knopfler says he had begun planning to record an album with Jeff Beck shortly before Beck's death ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/mark-knopfler-jeff-beck-collaborative-album LWTZbLn324sMXTPG6JeFDk Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Wed, 01 May 2024 20:30:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ Follow the lead of players like Mark Knopfler, Albert Collins, and Lindsey Buckingham, and open the door to new techniques and textures, with this primer in fingerstyle rock guitar ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/lessons/fingerstyle-rock-guitar-part-one WPWxiunjB7hfBfdThcVdxW Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:00:33 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:09:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ Ten Mind-Blowing Rock Guitar Solos Every Player Needs to Know About ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/best-rock-guitar-solos kfjJf3vrWtbq7DGJAXhZiG Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:58:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Music Is About Completing Those Little Circuits That Connect You to Your Past”: Mark Knopfler Looks Back on the Journey From “Sultans of Swing” to His Latest Solo Album, ‘Down the Road Wherever’ ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/mark-knopfler-down-the-road-wherever pFbXshFLSxK7JDqLwPaVhT Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:17:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ The 40 Most Important Guitar Solos of the 20th Century ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/the-40-most-important-guitar-solos-of-the-20th-century RGtTzStEoDw26KeEmWJ7tW Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:00:15 +0000 Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:13:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ $50 Pawnshop Guitar? Not Anymore. This ‘60s Teisco Del Ray ET-460 Commands a Four-Figure Sum on the Vintage Market ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/dollar50-pawnshop-guitar-not-anymore-this-60s-teisco-del-ray-et-460-commands-a-four-figure-sum-on-the-vintage-market DH6jm9gV4cooYboXtKFt9J Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:09:46 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I Was Doing Things With My Fingers That I Couldn't Do With a Pick”: Mark Knopfler on His World-Famous Picking Technique ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/i-was-doing-things-with-my-fingers-that-i-couldnt-do-with-a-pick-mark-knopfler-on-his-world-famous-picking-technique 2sbuB3vTmc7rTF5fhgp3c7 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:23:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’ve Been Interested in Guitar as an Instrument That Adds to a Band Instead of Overtakes it”: Browan Lollar Talks Finding His Sound ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/ive-been-interested-in-guitar-as-an-instrument-that-adds-to-a-band-instead-of-overtakes-it-browan-lollar-talks-finding-his-sound pDA6gp26gHUvPtviDrJxGP Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:17:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ Five Reasons Jeff Healey Is a Guitar Legend ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/five-reasons-jeff-healey-is-a-guitar-legend 6nJWyGfLZ52BjGSmCAfF2Z Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:17:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ Mark Knopfler’s Favorite Studio Guitars ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/mark-knopflers-favorite-studio-guitars YSEtgazJoehP5jwhTsfzxg Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:10:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ Ever Wondered What Mark Knopfler’s Contemporaries Have to Say About Him? ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/ever-wondered-what-mark-knopflers-contemporaries-have-to-say-about-him zdTiYXixzdmAE7BjCs6Ke5 Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:06:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Mark Knopfler Bring the House Down with His Epic “Sultans of Swing” Solo ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/watch-mark-knopfler-bring-the-house-down-with-his-epic-sultans-of-swing-solo QJp3d638NqQGQxZTv9Mr29 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:59:07 +0000 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:05:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ Classic Tones: “Money for Nothing” – Dire Straits ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/classic-tones-money-for-nothing-dire-straits jnMyduHZuCLGViwFbDAgqG Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:01:44 +0000 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:59:30 +0000 <![CDATA[ Vinyl Treasures: Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins — Neck and Neck ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/vinyl-treasures-mark-knopfler-and-chet-atkins-neck-and-neck CkgxvVYJ3AqYmzLumCw7mX Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:14:08 +0000 Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:18:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler Play "Cocaine" and "Sultans of Swing" in 1988 ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/watch-eric-clapton-and-mark-knopfler-play-cocaine-and-sultans-of-swing-in-1988 CTuRxwboqbi5XTGqvHaFig Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:57:14 +0000