other titles...
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
mercury
The English quartet led by singer songwriter Mark Knopfler, plays tight, spare mixtures of rock, blues & country music with a serene spirit and witty irony.
As a writer, Knopfler pens terse little narratives about the mundane problems of his brethren: women trouble, money trouble, one's-place-in-the-world trouble. He's often as clever as he is banal. If anything, living alone is what dire straits is about, and it sounds like a good life.