release date: Mar. 1983
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,12]
producer: Mark Knopfler
label: Vertigo Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "Wild Theme" -3. "Freeway Flyer" - 5. "The Way It Always Starts" (feat. Gerry Rafferty) - 14. "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero"
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Solo debut album by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for a movie written and directed by Bill Forsyth.
The album is a difficult one to review being a soundtrack with many instrumental compositions and tracks of short playing time. It naturally displays Knopfler's 'signature' finger-picking guitar, music very similar too long progressive elements on Love Over Gold (1982) - the most recent Dire Straits album.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]
