Mark Knopfler is one of the interviewees in the feature-length documentary film John Monteleone: The Chisels Are Calling. It’s a profile of the great guitar maker of the title, who not only is greatly admired by the British singer-guitarist and many of his peers, but who inspired Knopfler to write a song about him.
Knopfler says that after meeting the luthier, he realized that a song was forming in his head, which became “Monteleone,” featured on his 2009 album Get Lucky. “It was like meeting Stradivari,” he says of the experience. Indeed, Monteleone’s creative roots are in Italy, and the film shows him in the northern forests looking for the perfect wood for his next projects, and on to Cremona, known as the home of violin building. John takes viewers around the Museo del Violino, which displays the violins of Stradivari and the Cremonese masters.
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