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Dire Straits: Bottom Line, New York

Dave Marsh, Melody Maker, 10 March 1979

LIVE, DIRE Straits are precisely what they are on record: a throwback to the kind of unassuming funk that hasn't enjoyed much popularity since Delaney and Bonnie disintegrated and Fleetwood Mac grafted hippie mysticism to the blues.

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