Get Lucky is the sixth solo album by Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...

, released on 14 September 2009 in Europe and 15 September in the United States in three configurations. To promote the album, Knopfler toured throughout North America

North America

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 and Europe

Europe

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, starting on 8 April 2010 in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

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 and concluding on 31 July 2010 in Ávila, Spain.

The song "The Car Was the One" is based on a story in The Unfair Advantage, an autobiography by race car driver Mark Donohue

Mark Donohue

Mark Neary Donohue, Jr. , nicknamed "Captain Nice", was an American racecar driver known for his ability to set up his own race car as well as driving it to victories. Donohue is probably best known as the driver of the 1500+ bhp “Can-Am Killer” Porsche 917-30 and as the winner of the 1972...

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Track listing

1. "Border Reiver" – 4:35
2. "Hard Shoulder" – 4:33
3. "You Can't Beat the House" – 3:25
4. "Before Gas and TV" – 5:50
5. "Monteleone" – 3:39
6. "Cleaning My Gun" – 4:43
7. "The Car Was the One" – 3:55
8. "Remembrance Day" – 5:05
9. "Get Lucky" – 4:33
10. "So Far from the Clyde" – 5:58
11. "Piper to the End" – 5:47
12. "Early Bird" – 5:36 (released through iTunes; not available on CD)
13. "Time In The Sun" – 2:52 (released through Amazon; not available on CD)

The following additional tracks are included in the deluxe edition bonus CD:

1. "Pulling Down the Ride" – 2:41
2. "Home Boy" – 3:15
3. "Good as Gold" – 3:27

Credits

Music

• Mark Knopfler
  Mark Knopfler
  Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...
  
   – vocals, guitar, mandolin, producer
• Richard Bennett
  Richard Bennett (guitarist)
  Richard Bennett is a touring sideman, session veteran, and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for 17 years, and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session player, he has worked with artists ranging from Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand to Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill...
  
   – guitars
• John McCusker
  John McCusker
  John McCusker is a Scottish folk musician, record producer and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and producer for folk singer Kate Rusby...
  
   – violin, cittern, whistle
• Matt Rollings
  Matt Rollings
  Matt Rollings is an American composer, musician and record producer. He plays piano, organ, and keyboards.Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, he has worked with many artists, not all country...
  
   – piano, organ
• Guy Fletcher
  Guy Fletcher
  Guy Wilson Fletcher is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known for his position as the keyboardist in the British rock band Dire Straits from 1984 until the group's dissolution, and his involvement in nearly every part of Mark Knopfler's solo work to date.-Biography:Fletcher was born into a...
  
   – keyboards, producer, engineer, string arrangements
• Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. He was born in Dayton, Ohio but grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has concentrated on the bass guitar since he was thirteen. He majored in music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Inevitably his talents forced him to abandon the...
  
   – bass guitar, string bass
• Danny Cummings
  Danny Cummings
  -Musical biography:The first Latin percussion instrument that Danny Cummings ever acquired was a second-hand conga he persuaded his parents to buy him for his 21st birthday. "I remember thinking that black fiberglass drum marked the beginning of a new era for me," says Cummings...
  
   – drums, percussion
• Phil Cunningham
  Phil Cunningham (folk musician)
  Phil Cunningham, MBE, born 1960 in Edinburgh, Scotland is a Scottish folk musician and composer.-Biography:Phil played accordion and violin from a very young age. He attended school in Portobello, and was raised Mormon, attending church regularly and playing organ...
  
   – accordion
• Michael McGoldrick
  Michael McGoldrick
  Michael McGoldrick is a flute and tin whistle player. He also plays the Uilleann pipes and low whistle. He is well known for his ability to skate switch and regular with the same level of ability.-Bands:...
  
   – flute, whistle
• Rupert Gregson-Williams
  Rupert Gregson-Williams
  Rupert Gregson-Williams is an award winning British film score composer. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge choir school and Lancing College, he is the brother of multi-nominated and awarded film composer Harry Gregson-Williams and former member of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures team of...
  
  - conducting strings, french horn

Production

• Chuck Ainlay
  Chuck Ainlay
  Chuck Ainlay is a record producer. He has worked with Mark Knopfler on much of Knopfler's solo work, in addition to some Dire Straits material....
  
   - producer, engineer
• Rich Cooper - assistant engineer
• Martin Hollis - assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....
  
   - mastering

Formats

The album was released in four formats:

• Standard Jewel Case CD
• Limited Edition CD/DVD Digipack (which includes a tour around the British Grove Studio conducted by Mark and Chuck Ainlay)
• Deluxe Edition in presentation box, to include:

- 3 x engraved poker chips

- 2 x branded poker craps

- Guitar tab for the title track "Get Lucky"

- 2x 180g vinyl

- Facsimile gig ticket

DVD:

- 1 track performed live/acoustic

- Video tour of British Grove + Interview

- DVD short 20min film

• Double Vinyl LP

Peak positions

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart	43
Austrian Albums Chart IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...	10
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)	17
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)	8
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	16
Danish Albums Chart	2
Dutch Albums Chart	3
European Albums Chart	2
Finnish Albums Chart	17
French Albums Chart	10
German Albums Chart	2
Hungarian Albums Chart	13
Italian Albums Chart	2
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	25
Norwegian Albums Chart	1
Polish Albums Chart	3
Portuguese Albums Chart Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa The Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa is currently the only recording industry association in Portugal. Created in 1989, it succeeded GPPFV and UNEVA ....	9
New Zealand Albums Chart	5
Spanish Albums Chart	4
Swedish Albums Chart	6
Swiss Albums Chart	5
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	9
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	17
Billboard Rock Album Billboard Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...	5

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)	Rank
German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	47
Italian Albums Chart	93
Swiss Albums Chart	98

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