Postcards From Paraguay is a song recorded for the fourth solo studio album by British Singer and songwriter Mark Knopfler. The entire album was released on 28th September 2004 under the label of Mercury Records internationally, and in the United States, the same album was released by Warner Bros Records.
During the winter of 2003, Mark met with an accident when he was riding his motorbike on Grosvenor Road, Belgravia. In that accident, his collarbone and shoulder blade got broken, and he also suffered seven broken ribs. At that time, he was planning to kick start his Ragpicker’s Dream Tour, but due to the accident, he had to cancel the whole tour. After that, it took him 7 months to once again start playing his guitar as his physiotherapist kept on pushing him to delay his return to music. He then returned to the studio in 2004 and started working on his fourth album while also announcing a supporting tour for the album in the following year.
Knopfler is known for his storytelling in songwriting; the very first song that he wrote for the album was taken from the inspiration from Ray Kroc’s autobiography. Apart from this, most of the songs that you get to hear from this singer and songwriter come from real-life experiences and stories that he got the opportunity to be part of in one way or the other. This song is present at the 10th position in the album, and just like other songs present in the album, this one was also released in 5.1 surround sound on Super Audio CD (SACD) and DVD-Audio.
For the guitar lesson on Postcards from Paraguay, your musical instructor is going to be Mike Walker. Mike is one of our talented guitar teachers whom we have the honor to work with. He has been teaching students from all over the globe for more than 15 years now. Mike himself won Grammy’s Unsigned Band Contest in 2005 with his second band called Rule of 7, which he founded with other band members. Mike has divided this guitar lesson into 8 different segments in which you will be learning chords, rhythms, and arrangements, along with overdub variation, improvisation, finger-picking patterns and crucial aspects of playing this song on guitar.
After you complete this song, you can check out other similar songs like Final Countdown by Europe, Come As You Are by Nirvana, Black Bird by Beatles and more from your English rock song playlist. We at Torrins know that inconvenience can knock on your door anytime; you may fall ill or have some other plans that may cause you not to attend your musical lessons if they are taken offline. But with us, you will have access to recorded guitar tutorials that are available to you with just a few clicks on our platform. In addition to this, you can easily rewind and re-watch the videos from the very beginning of the course if you forget certain techniques. So join Torrins now and start your musical journey with the best guitar instructors in the entire world.
