Product Description

Recorded over a period of five years, this is the debut collaboration album from Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris. Primarily written by Knopfler, the recording features a dozen songs beautifully demonstrating the pair's contrasting vocal styles. The single 'This Is Us' is included.

Track Listing

1. Beachcombing
2. I Dug Up A Diamond
3. This Is Us
4. Red Staggerwing
5. Rollin' On
6. Love and Happiness
7. Right Now
8. Donkey Town
9. Belle Starr
10. Beyond My Wildest Dreams
11. All The Roadrunning
12. If This Is Goodbye

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2584 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 50 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

From the Label
For the past seven years, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris have been quietly compiling a treasure trove of duets--the result, All the Roadrunning.

Co-producing with Chuck Ainlay, Knopfler shares his electric, acoustic and slide playing with guitarist Richard Bennett. The other musicians in the line-up are: Jim Cox and Guy Fletcher keyboards, Glen Duncan fiddle and mandolin, Dan Dugmore steel, Glen Worf bass and Chad Cromwell and Danny Cummins drums.

Customer Reviews

Nice But..
..Boring.

I think they tried too hard to make something out of nothing.

Pure pleasure
Having never been a fan of Mark Knopfler when he was in Dire Straits, and EmmyLou Harris is not a singer I now much about, I was very pleasantly suprised by the album. I thought the album would be a bit mean and moody for me, like a lot of music lovers I was hooked on perhaps the one song from the album to be of any good, so I took a chance. How glad I was, absolutely loved Red Staggerwing and Rollin On was so beautifully sung, guitar wonderful, goosebump music, quite honestly. Both singers complimented each other very well, so take a chance on getting something not normally in your sphere.

Great combo!
Got this album for christmas. At first I thought it was average but after another listen I take back what I thought. There voices compliment the others so well. Not your typical jammy Dire Straits album but a great alternative. It's got everything it has the chilled songs such as "All the roadrunning" and "I dug up a diamond" and the more lively "This is us" and "right now" and something in between. I'm sixteen and love Dire Straits and I enjoyed this incredibly. Worth every penny!