Basil - Mark Knopfler (2015)

“Basil“ was released in March 2015 on Mark Knopfler’s eighth solo album, Tracker. Mark is such an amazing songwriter and guitarist and I’m happy to support his continued solo work which never fails to satisfy. Lots of solo stuff that I’d love to doing a couple of my favorites from his last album. This one was just kinda thrown together as I haven’t had much time lately for the vids. Hope you enjoy and thank for watching! 192kHz/24bit HD FLAC Audio! The song is about Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985), a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasize the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. He was an accomplished reader of his own work. Basil tells the story of the singer-songwriter’s teenage days spent working as a copy boy for the paper in the early 1960’s when Basi