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An Exploitation Disk

Diego Banducci | San Francisco, CA United States | 06/07/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Brewers Droop was a late sixties "Cajun" band that played English pubs. In 1973, a young Mark Knopfler joined the band. Apparently some of the group's tunes were recorded and then squirreled away until now.Knopfler, of course, went on to form Dire Straits while Brewers Droop went---nowhere. This short (36.59 min.) disc contains those early tunes, which according to the cover, provide the listener the opportunity to "hear the fledgling Mark Knopfler cultivate the sound that was to make Dire Straits a World-wide success story." In fact, Knopfler does not do any of the vocals and only plays backup guitar on three of the nine cuts, none of which sound at all like Dire Straits.Featuring mediocre music, this disk is simply an attempt to exploit Knopfler's name. Take a pass on it."