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Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris have collaborated on one album, released in April 2006, titled All The Roadrunning.
The album was the result of a longtime collaboration between the two. Over the course of seven years, the songs were recorded by the pair with minimal information coming out about it. “This Is Us” was released as the first single, followed by “Beachcombing”.
In November 2006, a live DVD as well as CD/DVD combination titled Real Live Roadrunning was released, in support for the studio collaboration. The performance also included music from each artist’s discography.
Alanna Nash’s album review ‘All the Road Running’ on amazon.com
Over the last seven years, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris quietly recorded an album by stealing “a few precious hours of studio time here and there,” as the ex-Dire Straits singer/guitarist puts it. Good thing they kept it largely under wraps—expectations would have pushed through the clouds, especially as Knopfler conjured 10 of the 12 cuts, and Harris, who writes potently, but little, contributed two (“Love and Happiness,” “Belle Starr”). Yet now that it’s here, All the Roadrunning—while beautiful—seems somehow underwhelming, and without a true centerpiece. Anyone familiar with the artists’ famous catalogues would expect the repertoire to be poetic and brooding, and that Harris’s ethereal soprano would add light to Knopfler’s dark Prozac rumblings. But the surprise is that the album is too tame, never breaks out of its midtempo groove, and never takes any big chances.
That said, there is much to like: The marital scrapbook romp of “This Is Us,” the bluesy bickering of “Right Now,” the wrenching poignancy of the 9/11-inspired ballad “If This Is Goodbye.” Knopfler, ever the hypnotic guitarist, turns in some thrillingly droll and laconic vocals, and Harris brings the spirited coltishness of her early work to “Belle Starr.” In the end, though, this is not so much a duet album as two famously melancholy musicians singing together—at times, strikingly so. —Alanna Nash
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