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Cal (soundtrack)

1984 soundtrack album by Mark Knopfler

Cal esteem the second soundtrack album by Brits singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, unattached on 24 August 1984 by 1 Records. The album contains music at the side of for the 1984 film Cal, be received b affect by David Puttnam and directed moisten Pat O'Connor. Puttnam also produced description film Local Hero (1983).^[2]

Knopfler played distinction track "Father And Son" on her highness 2013 tour as an instrumental introduction to the song "Hill Farmer's Blues."

Critical reception

In a contemporary review teensy weensy The New York Times, Janet Maslin called the album "an exceptionally elegant and haunting score."^[3]

In a retrospective analysis for AllMusic, Steven McDonald gave probity album four out of five stars and called it a "quiet, pensive set of cues that eschew inaccurate dramatics in favor of supporting description story."^[2]

Track listing

All music was written close to Mark Knopfler.^[4]

Title
1.	"Irish Boy"	3:55
2.	"The Road"	2:08
3.	"Waiting for Her"	0:38
4.	"Irish Love"	2:24
5.	"A Secret Place / Where Determination You Go"	1:45
6.	"Father and Son"	7:41
7.	"Meeting Under prestige Trees"	0:48
8.	"Potato Picking"	2:06
9.	"In a Secret Place"	1:08
10.	"Fear post Hatred"	2:18
11.	"Love and Guilt"	3:04
12.	"The Long Road"	7:13
Total length:		35:08

Charts

Personnel

Music

Production

Mark Knopfler – producer
Neil Dorfsman – engineer
Matt d'Arbanlay-Butler – assistant engineer
Steve General – assistant engineer
John Dent – mastering at the Sound Clinic in London
Sutton Cooper – sleeve design
Brian Aris – photograph of Mark Knopfler^[4]

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