Mark Knopfler: A Life in Songs Page #2
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in Vanderbilt in Nashville.
And the Evs came along,
and it's a real thrill to be playing your song with the Evs.
# Why worry?
# There should be laughter after pain
# There should be sunshine after rain
# These things have always been the same
# So why worry now? #
By the age of 16, while patiently waiting to go electric,
Knopfler could be found finger-picking his way
around the folk clubs of Newcastle.
Doing things like,
# I'm going down that road and I'm feelin' bad, baby
# Going down that road and I'm feelin' bad
# Ain't gonna be treated this way
# These two darn shoes kill my feet, baby
# Daughter's shoes is killing my feet
# Ain't gonna be treated this way. #
So this kind of duality going on
where I'd be playing in folk places at the age of 16
and wanting to play electric music as well.
For a kid growing up in Newcastle in the '60s,
no music was more electrifying than that of the blues.
One bluesman in particular, BB King,
would create a lasting impression on the young Mark Knopfler.
He had a record called Live at the Regal
and that was really, really important for me.
It was a very definite thing happening.
This relationship between the voice, the guitar and the audience
that I'd never heard before and made a big impression on me.
# The way I used to love you, baby
# Baby, that's the way I hate you now. #
And then Bob Dylan, of course, changed it all for me.
As far as realising that you could write about anything.
# Oh, my name, it ain't nothing.
# My age, it means less.
# The country I come from is called the mid-west
# I was taught and brought up there The laws to abide.
# And the land that I lived in has God on its side. #
Obviously, your childhood influences, they all help, but what they all did,
they all made a song person and not an instrumental type person.
They made me much more of a song person.
Not somebody who wanted to play in an orchestra.
# Southbound again
# Don't know if I'm going or leaving home. #
Knopfler left home and journeyed south to Essex to train as a journalist,
only to return north a year later
when he was offered a job in Leeds as a cub reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post.
Musically, I was slowly starting to put together a couple of songs.
But the journalism was a really great thing for a kid to do,
because it toughened me up and it meant that you had to get yourself organised half way.
Not that I ever really did.
In fact, I don't know whether I was tough enough to be a newspaper man.
I didn't have the printer's ink running in my veins and I think it has to.
During the six years Knopfler spent in Leeds, he continued to play music in various line ups.
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