Down to the Waterline (Knopfler) - 3:55
2 Water of Love (Knopfler) - 5:23
3 Setting Me up (Knopfler) - 3:18
4 Six Blade Knife (Knopfler) - 4:10
5 Southbound Again (Knopfler) - 2:58
6 Sultans of Swing (Knopfler) - 5:47
7 In the Gallery (Knopfler) - 6:16
8 Wild West End (Knopfler) - 4:42
9 Lions (Knopfler) - 5:05
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Recorded: February 1978
Mark Knopfler Guitar, Composer, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals
David Knopfler - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals
John Illsley - Bass, Vocals
Pick Withers - Drums
Rhett Davies - Engineer
Gregg Geller - Remastering
Jo Motta - Project Coordinator
Alan Schmidt - Art Direction
Muff Winwood - Producer
By the mid-'80s Dire Straits were a platinum band dismissed in their native England as safe, yuppie rockers, yet the original quartet's lean, guitar-driven music struggled to find a label home when first recorded in 1978. Mark Knopfler offers craggy vocals, literate blues-based songs, and sinuous, virtuosic guitar work. He melds keening solo lines and rapidly picked fills and dodges the synth washes and postpunk power chords of then-competing new wavers; he relies on atmosphere, character, and pure musicianship intead of heavy irony or pop fashion. "Sultans of Swing," codifies this stance, a galloping paean to aging jazz musicians playing for the sheer love of the music. This became a major hit and has endured as a radio classic. The album itself has proven equally sturdy thanks to cinematic imagery and the tightly wound arrangements of "Down to the Waterline," "Six Blade Knife," and "Water of Love." --Sam Sutherland
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