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Title: where is the lead guitar?
Review: The music of Mark Knopfler has always been most interesting for the lead guitar. More so than for almost any other musician, it has always almost seemed that he was doing a duet with his guitar, and often times the guitar tells as much of the story of the song as do the lyrics. But, sadly, that is for the most part missing from this album. Many of the songs on this album are "nice," but (except for a few short passages) I get the sense that he is holding back with the lead guitar, and it is relegated to the supporting role of providing melody rather than the prominence of his most-loved songs. I just kept waiting for him to break out with his well-known guitar solos on so many songs, but they just did not come, and the listener is left feeling that something was missing. And without that lead guitar taking off, these are just a bunch of regular old songs without anything much special.
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