Artist: DIRE STRAITS
Album: DIRE STRAITS REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1978/ 1996
EAN/UPS: 0042280005122
Media type: CD

Dire Straits is the self-titled debut album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1978. The album was noted for the single "Sultans of Swing", which at first broke a US Top Five early 1979 (being a hit full five months after the album was released there) and then raised up at #8 in the British charts. It was remastered and released with the rest of the Dire Straits catalogue in 1996 for most of the world outside the U.S. and on September 19, 2000 in the United States. The cover image is taken from a painting by Chuck Loyola.

Country band Highway 101 later covered "Setting Me Up", taking it to the top ten on the U.S. country singles charts in 1990.

The original version of the album contained a slightly shorter version of "Sultans of Swing", omitting the last seconds of the guitar solo at the end of the song, but the full-length version was included on the remastered edition of the album.

All songs written by Mark Knopfler.

TRACKLIST:

"Down To The Waterline" – 3:55
"Water Of Love" – 5:23
"Setting Me Up" – 3:18
"Six Blade Knife" – 4:10
"Southbound Again" – 2:58
"Sultans of Swing" – 5:47
"In The Gallery" – 6:16
"Wild West End" – 4:42
"Lions" – 5:05

LINE-UP:

Mark Knopfler – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
John Illsley – bass, backing vocals
David Knopfler – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Pick Withers – drums