2010 vinyl reissues from Warner Brothers celebrates 30 years of Dire Straits!

Warner Brothers hit the ground running in 2010, with a vinyl reissue campaign featuring one of our most cherished artists, Dire Straits. Each album has been lovingly re mastered from the original analog master tapes at Bernie Grundman Mastering, in Hollywood California and pressed on 180 gram European vinyl, at Furnace MFG, Pallas.

Dire Straits, self titled debut, was initially released in 1978 to immense critical and popular acclaim. Today, thirty tears later, it still sounds like one of the most subtly confident, accomplished and important albums of that decade.

This is an album, of course, that contains one of Dire Straits more ubiquitous songs, Sultans of Swing, however the entire album plays well, a rather seamless musical work full of dense lyrical imagery, wonderful if not rigorous musicianship and an overall adherence to the musical craft which helped serve Mark Knopfler’s vison of the complete and cohesive album, an album which relies on musical accomplishment, rather than a high theatrical concept or a series of hits and B sides of the variety that so many of Knopfler’s contemporaries relied upon during the 1970’s.

If it wasn’t obvious to the average music fan how truly advanced this debut was, thirty years later and looking back, it is now all the more obvious. It remains a perfect debut. Available Now.

Dire Straits, Communique’, March 2010.

Dire Straits, Making Movies, Summer 2010.