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Since it was cheap, I couldn’t resist and bought it.
Production of this DVD is really very poor.
In the introduction the DVD is presented by something called “Music from the Past”.
The end credits are:
Additional Videopostproduction & DVD Authoring – Birdland Sound Audio -& Videoproduktion,
Graphic Arts – Birdland Mediendesign
© 2005, Valgenti Trade AG
64 minutes
And now about the tracks:
Three sources were used for this compilation:
1. DVD “A Night on the Town” (1990)
2. DVD “Bruce Hornsby & Friends” (2004)
3. Austin City Limits (2000)
See http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/artists/program17.html
I know this source from Rick’s FTP server where it is a filler of “Bruce Hornsby & Bela Fleck Miller Auditorium” DVD. Now also on http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta … ?id=131266
01 Introduction – Samples of all songs
02 Spider Fingers – source #2
03 Fire On The Cross – source #1
04 Way It Is – source #3
05 Talk To The Town.KG – source #2
06 Barren Ground – source #1
07 Rainbow’s Cadillac – source #3
08 Walk In The Sun – source #2
09 Across The River – source #1
10 Another Day – source #1
11 Stranded On Easy Street – source #1
12 Lost On 5th Avenue (Instrumental) – Royal Combination – not played or composed by Bruce, the music serves as background to picture show and end credits. All pictures that can be seen in the piture show are taken from various Internet sources.
The DVD also contains Bruce’s biography taken from Wikipedia.
The style of production is similar to the DVD compilation of Pat Metheny that I own, wich is also cheap and low-quality, see
http://www.amazon.de/Pat-Metheny-As/dp/ … UTF8&s=dvd
In the case of Pat Metheny the producers at least provided the DVD with a leaflet containing the credits for all songs. This in not the case of this DVD. There is no information about the authorship and sources of material in it.

Review of “All The Roadrunnig “

Hi Will,
Thanks for your interesting comment.
Here is a translation of a Czech review of Knopfler’s latest album.
The author of this review, Josef Vlček, is one of the best Czech music critics. His reviews have always been very insightful. His review of Harbor Lights has made me to buy it and become Bruce’s fan.

Mark Knopfler Gets Back to the Roots of the Country Music
The latest solo albums of Mark Knopfler were formally overcomplicated and soulless. That has made the new album called All The Roadrunnig even more awaited. Knopfler has recorded it in the course of seven years with Emmylou Harris who has been for more than thirty years the best backup singer in the country music.
Nothing revolutionary has happened, only a couple of experienced musicians has recorded a good and sincere album. With the exception of few moments it is a record of slow and mid-tempos with a light scent of violin, mandolin, and a typical fragile guitar. Knopfler has written a number of his most catching tunes in which can be felt pain and loneliness that recently came back in connection with the devastation of New Orleans and the attacks on the New York Twin Towers.
This time the most beautiful moments of the album are not brought by favorite Knopfler’s tender solos but by a perfect combination of a growling guitar player’s voice with a bright soprano of a country music diva. The ever-beautiful Emmylou seems to be an ideal Knopfler’s partner. She has the same feeling for the country music as well as for Knopfler’s typical Celtic reminiscences. She is the most elegant melancholic among American women singers.
This magically soothing album of two distinguished personalities has certainly its importance for the American music scene. Today’s American country music is becoming more and more robust and hard, and sounds like a thousand equal rock variations on Creedence Clearwater Revival. And here comes the album that is modern but gets back to the more fragile sound of the middle of the last century and in particular it searches for the inspiration in its ancestral roots – in the Irish and the Scottish folk songs.