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CHET ATKINS AND MARK KNOPFLER: NECK AND NECK (Columbia). Two mighty pickers . kick back, do a little singing, a little guitar plucking, and pull off a sublime exercise in countrified sophistication. "Show a little respect for your elders," Atkins teases Knopfler during an easygoing version of There'll Be Some Changes Made, and the whole record becomes a kind of cross- generational tribute to musical roots, from one master to another...
...NOTTING HILLBILLIES: MISSING . . . PRESUMED HAVING A GOOD TIME (Warner Bros.). Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits, and three mates of similar musical inclination cook up a relaxed set of old-time guitar music and dusty folk. A sort of after-hours version of the Traveling Wilburys, with a solid Knopfler original (Your Own Sweet Way) nestled among the well-roasted chestnuts...
...singer and a movie star, Cliff has helped make reggae a household word--and in the process, has made himself internationally famous. Thompson, a cult figure and a pioneer of the Celtic folk/rock movement, is one of those rare virtuosi--like B.B. King, Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler--who can make a guitar sing or weep. Both gave outstanding performances...
...clean, a sense of controlled mistake that this group of mostly Brits definitely needs. Also, he has a nice habit of walking over the grand piano to get to the other side of the stage. Sonni gives the ax men their mobility, inciting bassist John Illsey to dance and Knopfler to smile, while slipping in some pretty nice guitar licks himself...
Sonni certainly shrugs a lot, too. A year ago, he owned a guitar store in Greenwich Village, the only distinction of which was that a certain British rock star used to shop there. Because said star (whose last name happens to be Knopfler) runs through rhythm guitarists like Ex-lax through Ronald Reagan's digestive tract, Sonni joined up and became a juke-box hero and heir apparent and all that good stuff...