Latest about Mark Knopfler
The guitarist was at his peak with Dire Straits when Dylan hired him to produce the celebrated album that ended his “born-again” phase
The Dire Straits legend heard a blues guitarist moving beyond his influences and into something “really powerful”
Long before “Sultans of Swing” made him a guitar hero, Knopfler was a reporter learning the art of listening — a skill that would define his songwriting.
The former Dire Straits guitarist told us why he moved away from the plectrum but still regards the pick as “a superior thing”
Fresh off the success of “Sultans of Swing,” the Dire Straits guitarist joined Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in the studio — and discovered just how painstaking their recording process could be.
Loaned to him by a folk-rock guitarist in the mid ’70s, the instrument spent five decades in his care and featured in notable moments of Knopfler's career
He may have sold off 123 of his guitars last year, but this once “sweat-pitted” axe was too good to part with
He says he’s “gotten away with murder” across his career and points to the true unsung heroes of the guitar scene
