When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This week we're looking at a guitar riff that occurs a few times in Dire Straits' 1978 debut ...

With the help of modern swing groups like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, there's a whole new audience for the great dance music of the 1930s and 1940s ...

It really was a dark and stormy night in 1977 when guitarist Mark Knopfler popped into a tumbledown bar in London and happened upon some song inspiration. Inside, as Knopfler would later recall, was a ...