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Mark Knopfler & The Notting Hillbillies: Missing... Presumed Having a Good Time

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Label: Vertigo Records
Released: 1990
Time:
 40:38
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Mark Knopfler, Guy Fletcher
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.mark-knopfler.co.uk
Appears with: Dire Straits
Purchase date: 2001.04.28
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] Railroad Worksong (Trad. arr.: The Notting Hillbillies) - 5:28
[2] Bewildered (Whitcup/Powell) - 2:36
[3] Your Own Sweet Way (Mark Knopfler) - 4:31
[4] Run Me Down (Trad. arr.: The Notting Hillbillies) - 2:24
[5] One Way Gal (Trad. arr.: The Notting Hillbillies) - 3:09
[6] Blues Stay Away From Me (A. Delmore/R. Delmore/W. Raney/H. Glover) - 3:50
[7] Will You Miss Me (Steve Phillips) - 3:50
[8] Please Baby (Trad. arr.: The Notting Hillbillies) - 3:49
[9] Weapon Of Prayer (I. & C. Louvin) - 3:09
[10] That's Where I Belong (Brendan Croker) - 2:50
[11] Feel Like Going Home (Charlie Rich) - 4:52

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MARK KNOPFLER - Guitar, Vocals
BRENDAN CROKER - Guitar, Vocals
GUY FLETCHER - Keyboards, Vocals
PAUL FRANKLIN - Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar
STEVE PHILLIPS - Guitar, Vocals

BILL SCHNEE - Engineer
RON EVE - Technical Assistance
BRIAN ARIS - Photography

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1988 CD Warner Brothers 2-26147
1990 LP Warner Brothers 26147
1988 CS Warner Brothers 4-26147



On hiatus from Dire Straits, guitarist Mark Knopfler joined with Brendan Croker, Steve Phillips, and Guy Fletcher for 1990's Missing: Presumed Having a Good Time. The result is a low-key, joyous run-through of mostly traditional, blues-based songs with a handful of originals. Despite the high-profile presence of Knopfler, The Notting Hillbillies succeed in sounding like a band with Knopfler often taking a backseat to his bandmates, although he does sing lead on the lovely "Your Own Sweet Way." The styles range from the gorgeous harmonies of "Railroad Worksong" with some mournful guitar from Knopfler, to the '50s-style rock ballad "Bewildered," to the breezy, tropical-flavored "One Way Gal." Missing: Presumed Having a Good Time is a delightful record that doesn't overstay its welcome.

Tom Demalon - All Music Guide



Was macht der Boß der Dire Straits in der Freizeit? Er pflegt mit drei alten Kumpels die Tradition. In seinem Privatstudio im Londoner Stadtteil Notting Hill nahm Gitarrero Mark Knopfler herrlich entspannte und gefühlvolle Country- und Blues-Oldies aus der guten alten Zeit auf, die nach der sensiblen Wiederbelebung durch die Hillbillies ergreifend schön wie eh und je klingen.

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Nicht nur Hobbymusiker, auch Superstars der Rockmusik haben offenbar Spaß an der Hausmusik mit Freunden und Nachbarn. George Harrison & Co. bewiesen mit den Traveling Wilburys ja schon, daß so etwas großen Anklang bei den Plattenkäufern finden kann. Jetzt veröffentlicht Mark Knopfler Aufnahmen, die in seinem Heimstudio im Londoner Stadtteil Notting Hill entstanden. Mitstreiter waren die Sänger und Gitarristen Brendan Croker und Steve Phillips (Freunde von Knopfler seit seinen Tagen als Clubmusiker) sowie Dire-Straits-Keyboarder Guy Fletcher. Paul Franklin aus Nashville an der Steelgitarre, Bassist Marcus Cliffe und Dire-Straits-Manager Ed Bicknell als Schlagzeuger vervollständigten die Combo. Zusammengeführt hat die Hillbillies ihre gemeinsame Liebe zur Country-, Western- und Rhythm & Blues-Musik. Das Gros der elf Songs ist daher solchen Ursprungs, doch Croker, Knopfler und Phillips steuerten auch je ein eigenes Stück bei, das nahtlos in das stilistische Konzept paßt. Handwerklich musizieren die "Hinterwäldler vom Notting Hill" auf höchstem Niveau, das Album ist insbesondere für Freunde von akustischer und elektrischer Gitarrenmusik und vorzüglichen Gesangssätzen ein Ohrenschmaus. Dire-Straits-Fans wird möglicherweise enttäuschen, daß Knopflers Stimme nur bei einem Song, der wunderschönen Ballade "Your Own Sweet Way" zu hören ist. Seine Gitarre ist dafür allgegenwärtig. Hinreißend singen und spielen können allerdings auch die weniger berühmten Hillbillies: Das belegen Titel wie der Western-Swing "Run Me Down", der Countrysong "Will You Miss Me?" und die Schluß-Ballade "Feel Like Going Home".

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RAILROAD WORKSONG

Working on a railroad for a dollar a day
Working on a railroad for a dollar a day
Working on a railroad good buddy for a dollar a day
Got to get my money gotta get my pay

Take this hammer take it to the captain
Take this hammer take it to the captain
Take this hammer good buddy take it to the captain
Tell him I'm gone tell him I'm gone

If he asks you was I running
If he asks you was I running
If he asks you good buddy was I running
Tell him I was flying tell him I was flying

If he asks you was I laughing
If he asks you was I laughing
If he asks you good buddy was I laughing
Tell him I was crying tell him I was crying

This old hammer rings like silver
This old hammer rings like silver
This old hammer good buddy rings like silver
Shine like gold buddy and it shine like gold

Working on a railroad for a dollar a day
Working on a railroad for a dollar a day
Working on a railroad good buddy for a dollar a day
Got to get my money gotta get my pay
Got to get my money gotta get my pay
Got to get my money gotta get my pay


BEWILDERED

Bewildered
Lost in a dream of you
Where is the love that I once knew
Why did we part

Bewildered
I'm helpless without you dear
Wishing your heart could hear
What's in my heart

Why must I have theses sleepless nights
And endless days
But love, you took my soul
Without a thought
I'm in the dark

Bewildered
I need your guiding hand
I will never understand
Why did you leave me bewildered

Why must I have sleepless nights
And endless days
But love, you took my soul
Without a thought
I'm in the dark

Bewildered
I need your guiding hand
I will never understand
How could you leave me bewildered


BEWILDERED

Bewildered
Lost in a dream of you
Where is the love that I once knew
Why did we part

Bewildered
I'm helpless without you dear
Wishing your heart could hear
What's in my heart

Why must I have theses sleepless nights
And endless days
But love, you took my soul
Without a thought
I'm in the dark

Bewildered
I need your guiding hand
I will never understand
Why did you leave me bewildered

Why must I have sleepless nights
And endless days
But love, you took my soul
Without a thought
I'm in the dark

Bewildered
I need your guiding hand
I will never understand
How could you leave me bewildered


YOUR OWN SWEET WAY

There is nothing I can do
Nothing I can say
You'll do what you want to
You'll go your own sweet way
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way

Now I can talk to you serious
I can talk to you nice
But when it comes to love
You won't take good advice
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way

It doesn't matter what I say
What I do or what I think
You can lead a horse to water
You can't make him drink
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way


RUN ME DOWN

You gotta run me down you gotta run me down
If you want to contact me you gotta run me down

I got work to do I'm the busiest man in town
If you want to contact me you gotta run me down

When I gets my dough I'm kinda hard to find
If you want me to pay your bills you gotta run me down

Now the rooster he crowed and them old hens looked around
Said if you want to make love you gotta run me down

When I had my money you used to follow me around
Now I have got broke you gotta run me down


ONE WAY GAL

One thing I like about that gal of mine
One thing I like about that gal of mine
One thing I like about that gal of mine
She treats me right and loves me all the time

Sometimes I'm broke and blue as I can be
Sometimes I'm broke and blue as I can be
Sometimes I'm broke and blue as I can be
But still my baby she looks after me

She walked in the rain till her feet got soaking wet
She walked in the rain till her feet got soaking wet
She walked in the rain till her feet got soaking wet
And this she said to every man she met

Mister change a dollar - gimme a lousy dime
Mister change a dollar - gimme a lousy dime
Mister change a dollar - gimme a lousy dime
So I can feed that hungry man of mine

That gal of mine she's one way all the time
That gal of mine she's one way all the time
That gal of mine she's one way all the time
She takes the blues away and satisfies my mind


BLUES STAY AWAY FROM ME

Blues stay away from me
Blues why don't you let me be
Don't know why
You keep on haunting me

Love was never meant for me
True love was never meant for me
Seems somehow
We never can agree

Life is full of misery
Dreams are like a memory
Bringing back
Your love that used to be

Tears so many I can't see
Years don't mean a thing to me
Time goes by
And I still can't be free


WILL YOU MISS ME

Will you miss me, will you miss me
Will you miss me, will you miss me
Will you miss me, miss me when I'm gone

Did you ever dream lucky, wake up cold in hand
Do you look at the stars in the heavens above
Do you sleep on the pillow where my head use to lay
While the moonbeams flicker 'cross your window pane
I'm on my way from here, don't know where I'm going

I'm rolling, rolling down that road
I'm rolling, rolling down that road
Just dreaming about the days of long ago

When darkness falls across the land
There's a shadow cast in the heart of a man
Though the flame of desire burns bright as a star
I hear a cry on the wind like a voice from afar
I'm a stranger here, don't know where I'm going

I'm rolling, rolling down that road
I'm rolling, rolling down that road
Just dreaming about the days of long ago

Will you miss me, will you miss me
Will you miss me, will you miss me
Will you miss me, miss me when I'm gone


PLEASE BABY

Please baby - please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time

Please baby - please please baby
When I get my money I will give you my last dime

When you left me babe, you left me feeling so blue
You know that I didn't love no-one but you
Please baby - please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time

I'm so blue baby, I'm, I'm so blue baby
I can't sleep at night
I can't hardly talk from crying
You know baby, you, you know baby
You always forever on my mind
Since you've been gone I can't sleep at night
Why don't you take my meals I can't eat a bite
Please baby, please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time

When you left me babe you left me feeling so blue
You know that I didn't love no-one but you
Please baby - please please baby
Won't you come back to your daddy one more time


WEAPON OF PRAYER

In that land across the sea there's a job for you and me
Though our presence there may not be found
We must stay standing there on the battle lines and pray
We must never lay our weapons down

We don't have to be a soldier in a uniform
To be of service over there
While the boys so bravely stand with the weapons made by hand
Let us trust and use the weapon of prayer

Many thousand miles away someone shed there blood today
With a heart so true and brave they're gone
To a war that's yours and mine let us join the battle line
With a weapon that will save our home

We don't have to be a soldier in a uniform
To be of service over there
While the boys so bravely stand with the weapons made by hand
Let us trust and use the weapon of prayer

And when the planes and tanks and guns have done all that they can do
And the mighty bombs have rained and failed
Still the helpful hand above, on the weapon made of love
And against him none on earth prevail


THAT'S WHERE I BELONG

Show me a place where I don't have to worry
And that's where I belong
Show me a place where I don't have to hurry
And that's where I belong
Give me the time, so I can change my mind
Where it don't matter if I'm wrong
Show me a place where I don't have to worry
And that's where I belong


FEEL LIKE GOING HOME

Lord I feel like going home
I tried and I failed and I'm tired and weary
Everything I ever done was wrong
And I feel like going home

Lord I tried to see it through
But it was too much for me
And now I'm coming home to you
And I feel like going home

Cloudy skies are rolling in
And not a friend around to help me
From all the places I have been
And I feel like going home

Lord I feel like going home
I tried and I failed and I'm tired and weary
Everything I ever done was wrong
And I feel like going home

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