"Down the Road Wherever" is the ninth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 16 November 2018 by British Grove Records via Universal/Virgin EMI. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". "Down the Road Wherever" is the ninth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 16 November 2018 by British Grove Records via Universal/Virgin EMI. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". false 2022-10-18 21:47:14 Down the Road Wherever 7.3 2018 2018-11-16 2018-11-16 79 Blues Folk Rock Jazz Rock Soft Rock 113758 2309420 758bb6ad-926e-47c1-b013-7b6373fbbbf5 e49f69da-17d5-4c5c-bac0-dadcb0e588f5 9f553358-71d1-4f0e-b182-b34ccdb1dfab /media/data/media5/Music/Mark Knopfler/Down the Road Wherever (2018)/folder.jpg Mark Knopfler AlbumArtist /config/metadata/People/M/Mark Knopfler/folder.jpg Mark Knopfler Artist /config/metadata/People/M/Mark Knopfler/folder.jpg Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler 1 Trapper Man 06:01 2 Back on the Dance Floor 05:30 3 Nobody’s Child 04:16 4 Just a Boy Away From Home 05:12 5 When You Leave 04:12 6 Good on You Son 05:37 7 My Bacon Roll 05:35 8 Nobody Does That 05:15 9 Drovers’ Road 05:05 10 One Song at a Time 06:17 11 Floating Away 05:03 12 Slow Learner 04:34 13 Heavy Up 06:00 14 Every Heart in the Room 04:30 15 Rear View Mirror 02:29 16 Matchstick Man 02:54 Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995. He pursued a solo career after the band dissolved, and is now an independent artist. Knopfler was born in Glasgow, and raised in Blyth, near Newcastle, England. After graduating from the University of Leeds and working for three years as a college lecturer, Knopfler co-founded Dire Straits with his younger brother, David Knopfler. The band recorded six albums, including Brothers in Arms (1985), one of the best-selling albums in history. After they disbanded in 1995, Knopfler began a solo career, and has produced nine solo albums. He has composed and produced film scores for nine films, including Local Hero (1983), Cal (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), Wag the Dog (1997) and Altamira (2016). He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman. Described by Classic Rock as a virtuoso, Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". With Dire Straits, Knopfler sold between 100 million and 120 million records. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Knopfler is the recipient of the Edison Award, the Steiger Award and the Ivor Novello Award, as well as holding three honorary doctorate degrees in music from universities in the United Kingdom. Knopfler was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Dire Straits in 2018.