Six Blade Knife
Dire Straits, 1978, from Dire Straits. Solo by Mark Knopfler.
A slinky, minimal blues groove with stinging, economical lead lines. It demonstrates how much Knopfler could say with very few notes.
Six Blade Knife by Dire Straits is #16 in our ranking of the best Dire Straits guitar solos. The solo is played by Mark Knopfler and the song was released in 1978.
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Who played the guitar solo on Six Blade Knife?
Mark Knopfler played the solo on Dire Straits's Six Blade Knife (1978).