The wee man from Strabane presents the best of his popular country music collection and is happy to play your requests.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. “Sultans of Swing” gives Dire Straits its first streaming hit in ...

Five albums by Dire Straits chart in the U.K. this week, with both On the Night and the group's self-titled debut full-length becoming bestselling downloads. Dire Straits, group portrait, Amsterdam, ...

Dire Straits were already hugely successful by the mid-'80s, yet the single “Money for Nothing” elevated the band into the upper level of rock stardom. Credit for the song’s popularity can be partly ...

Love Over Gold was something of a calm before the storm for Dire Straits. Released on Sept. 24, 1982, the LP burnished their reputation as one of mainstream rock's leading musos, three years before ...

Dire Straits‘ Mark Knopfler always had a deep affinity for country music, citing legends like Willie Nelson and the pedal steel guitar work of Jerry Byrd and Paul Franklin, who worked on the band’s ...

Biting the hand that feeds you usually doesn’t end up great. In the case of Dire Straits, they released a song that took aim at MTV. And it was at a time when the network could make or break you. That ...

As Mark Knopfler proved this year by not even showing up when his band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dire Straits are never, ever getting back together. However, that’s not ...

Jack Sonni, the musician best known for being "the other guitarist" in Dire Straits, has died, his former band members announced on Thursday. He was 68. A cause of death is currently unknown. The ...

“There was no way anybody else was going to stick their hand up and say, ‘Hey, Mark, I have a great song idea!’ There was no point. He was on a racetrack.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Rob ...