Mark Knopfler: Sultan of Song
By Jon Hersey
Songwriters today face a massive problem, or so it seems. The vast majority of popular songs are love songs or some variant—a trend that has been building for a thousand years or more, at least since 11th-century troubadours swooning about courtly love were all the rage. And from the Beatles to Taylor Swift, it’s common for modern artists to release who…
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