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Enduring appeal, Jan 6 2004

This is a great album, every song is worth listening to and it's one of those cd's you can listen to again and again without getting tired of it, thanks to Knopfler's consummate skill as a singer and guitar player. Man. The guy is amazing.

I'd like to plug my very favourite song on this album - Prairie Wedding is a fantastic blend of melody, lyric, and achingly tender vocals.

Kudos, Mark.

Linda AGAIN...ICKK!!, Jan 3 2004

PUhleezz, no more Linda! What possesses Aaron and his staff to offer repeat invites to Linda Ronstadt? Her gushy, over the top vocals are horribly unsuited to his powerful, delicate, understated style. Gad.
This man does NOT need a partner. His voice renders with such poignance the lonely experience of being a simple human, awash in this world.

Alas, the chelation bunkum again, Sep 27 2003

Asked to check into chelation therapy for some ailing friends and relatives, I did, hoping very much to find something that would offer hope and help to those who were moving beyond the capacity of conventional treatment to cure.

Regretfully I found absolutely no evidence beyond the hype of chelationist ads and the desperate hopes of the ill that chelation therapy is anything other than the worst sort of snake oil.

There have in the last several years been several excellent studies done to determine the efficacy of chelation therapy. Not one demonstrates any effect beyond that caused by caring health care workers and hope. While those effects are interesting, they are not life… Read more