In Brief
*** Mark Knopfler, “Golden Heart,” Warner Bros. With his cinematic storytelling and smoky, armchair vocals in Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler repopularized classic bar-blues in the age of new wave. Solo, he swaps guitar grinds for more lilting melodies, personal complaints for sweeping indictments of materialism. Peppered with bagpipes and Irish whistles, “Golden Heart” is as somber-hued and lovely on the surface as it is pointed and politically charged underneath.
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