A digital deluxe version of Mark Knopfler’s tenth album “One Deep River” has been released on 12th August 2024 on the British Grove label via EMI, making all 21 of the songs from the One Deep River album sessions available digitally. The original album, with its cover art celebrating the Tyne’s iconic bridges, was reviewed by AUK’s Tim Martin in April. The first four songs were originally available on the Deluxe Box Set and the other songs were available on the two CD version.
“One Deep River” was produced by Knopfler and his longstanding collaborator Guy Fletcher and was recorded at his state-of-the-art British Grove Studios in London. The band on the record features Knopfler on guitars, Jim Cox and Fletcher on keyboards, Glenn Worf on bass, Ian Thomas on drums and Danny Cummings on percussion, Richard Bennett on guitar, and Greg Leisz on pedal and lap steel; Mike McGoldrick provides whistle and uilleann pipes, and John McCusker plays fiddle, while the Topolski sisters Emma and Tamsin add backing vocals. All songs are written by Knopfler.
2024 has already been a very busy year for Knopfler. In January his Guitar Collection was auctioned at Christies, with several of the guitars selling for record-breaking sums. On 15th March Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes released a spine-tingling reworking of his song ‘Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)’ by a who’s who of legendary guitarists for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.
The additional songs on the digital deluxe version of “One Deep River” are:
1. Dolly Shop Man
2. Your Leading Man
3. Wrong ’Un
4. Chess
5. The Living End
6. Fat Chance Dupree
7. Along A Foreign Coast
8. What I’m Gonna Need
9. Nothing But Rain
