Why Aye Man

by Mark Knopfler

Why Aye Man cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 22 October 2002
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 21:58
  • Community rating: 3.25/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Why Aye Man' is a single built on guitar-led blues phrasing, a loose groove and a weathered vocal delivery. Its construction favours immediacy and repetition, concentrating the act's sound into a short, self-contained statement.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, bluesy, acoustic, soulful, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Why Aye Man (Full Version) (6:14)
  2. Small Potatoes (3:12)
  3. So Far Away (Live At Shepherd's Bush Empire) (4:38)
  4. Speedway At Nazareth (Live At Massey Hall, Toronto) (7:54)

Credits

  • Jimmy Nail - backing vocals [uncredited]
  • Tim Healy - backing vocals [uncredited]

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