The Long Road Home

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Hang in there folks. We'll get there. Enjoy the journey.

 

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Yeah, well, it looked to me like some of those dogs weren't pulling their weight! (Actually, I get accused of that more than I see it in others.)

Very nice! Thanks for posting that. I love instrumentals without voice. I even enjoy the instrumentals (if well done) better than the singing in most songs that feature instrumentals.

Mark Knopfler is well-known in Blues and Blues-Rock circles. He was with Dire Straights (eg, Money for Nothing, Sultans of Swing) for years. And has played with many others, such as Joe Bonamassa and Eric Clapton. I am somewhat surprised at this song. Not that it doesn't sound like him, but that it is ostensibly(?) a Christian production —(at least, that is the atmosphere I get from it). I hope he is a believer. Quite a few musicians are, quietly, or at least they believe in God, in some way, and of man's responsibility toward God. I can't help but wonder about Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, for example, though I've never heard it said of them.

 

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Yeah, well, it looked to me like some of those dogs weren't pulling their weight! (Actually, I get accused of that more than I see it in others.)

Very nice! Thanks for posting that. I love instrumentals without voice. I even enjoy the instrumentals (if well done) better than the singing in most songs that feature instrumentals.

Mark Knopfler is well-known in Blues and Blues-Rock circles. He was with Dire Straights (eg, Money for Nothing, Sultans of Swing) for years. And has played with many others, such as Joe Bonamassa and Eric Clapton. I am somewhat surprised at this song. Not that it doesn't sound like him, but that it is ostensibly(?) a Christian production —(at least, that is the atmosphere I get from it). I hope he is a believer. Quite a few musicians are, quietly, or at least they believe in God, in some way, and of man's responsibility toward God. I can't help but wonder about Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, for example, though I've never heard it said of them.

Don't forget Bob Dylan who was open about his conversion.

I haven't watched that video for awhile, but everytime I do., I end up with a tear streaked face. And I am not crybaby. I don't know if Knopflier intended the reference of our journey Home, but that is what I thought of from the first scene and first notes, and that road. This is our journey thought the wilderness, so to speak. It is long, sometimes hard, but also beautiful and full of joy. Nothing, not even our sin, and what we have done to creation and in it, can conceal the glory of God that is over all the earth.