Mark Knopfler Announces New Album, Hear The First Single

British singer, songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler announced that his ninth solo album, "Down the Road Wherever," will be released on November 16.

The successor of "Tracker" (2015) will be available in standard formats along with a deluxe CD version and a box set . Hear the first single, "Good On You Son" below of which a video clip will premiere next Monday, according to Universal Music.

A press release describes the record as a collection of "elegant and paused new songs by Knopfler inspired by a wide range of themes, including his early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a football fanatic lost in a strange city and the compulsion of a musician to stay at home because of the snow."

The text notes that Knopfler "has the eye of a poet to tell details that infuse his songs with his unique psychogeography - 'where the Delta meets the Tyne', as he describes it - and his warm vocal tone and his skillfully and richly melodic guitar are as impressive and exciting as ever ".

"(The title) is a phrase from 'One Song At A Time'. I remember that my colleague Chet Atkins once said that he got out of poverty song by song and it stayed with me. You get to an age where you've already written a lot of songs and 'Down The Road Wherever' seems appropriate because it's what I've always done: make records keeping my own geography, "Knopfler said.

Knopfler said that "the business of making a record, having written a song and then taking it to the musicians, can be a pretty flexible route." "They are not just highways all the way," he said. "You can end up in an occasional blind alley, then you have to make a turn to try to get your truck back to the main route, as discreetly as possible. That's part of the fun. "

Edited with its own label (British Grove), "Down The Road Wherever" has been produced by its own author and Guy Fletcher , with the band that has accompanied him in recent years.

Knopfler released his first solo album, "Golden Heart" in 1996, but in the first decade of the 21st century he published seven more studio works (five albums and two more half-length productions).