Sailing to Philadelphia
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September 26, 2000 |
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| Label (s) | Mercury Records Ltd. | |||
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CD |
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13 |
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60:29 |
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Chuck Ainlay, Mark Knopfler |
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Studio (s) |
Ocean Way Recording, |
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Sailing to Philadelphia ( Engl. For: " After sailing Philadelphia ") is the second studio album by Mark Knopfler . It was released in 2000. The songs What It Is , Sailing to Philadelphia and Silvertown Blues were released as singles.
background
As with most of Knopfler's albums, Sailing to Philadelphia is about both everyday and historical subjects. The title song, for example, tells the story of the astronomer Charles Mason and the geodesist Jeremiah Dixon , who in 1763 and 1767 measured the so-called Mason-Dixon line , which forms the traditional border between the northern and southern states of the USA . According to an interview, Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon Knopfler is said to have inspired the piece.
The song Baloney Again also has a historical background: It is about wandering black priests who want to spread their Christian faith in rural America in 1953, and about the racism they encounter.
Track list
- What It Is (single: 2000) - 4:55
- Sailing to Philadelphia (single: 2001, with James Taylor) - 5:28
- Who's Your Baby Now - 3:03
- Baloney Again - 5:07
- The Last Laugh (with Van Morrison) - 3:20
- Silvertown Blues (single released 2001) - 5:30
- El Macho - 5:27
- Prairie Wedding - 4:24
- Wanderlust - 3:52
- Speedway at Nazareth - 6:20 am
- Junkie Doll - 4:33
- Sands of Nevada - 3:56
- One More Matinee - 4:05
All the pieces were written by Mark Knopfler.
tour
The Sailing to Philadelphia tour lasted from March 27th to July 31st, 2001 and consisted of 80 concerts in Europe , Russia , North and South America . The band consisted of Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Richard Bennett (guitar), Guy Fletcher (piano, backing vocal), Glenn Worf (bass), Chad Cromwell (drums) and Mike Henderson (guitar, mandolin, violin, harmonica ) .
Web links
- Website by Mark Knopfler (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Booklet of the album.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ Interview with Mark Knopfler on the unofficial fansite mark-knopfler.de , accessed on September 23, 2013.
- ↑ Treatise on Mark Knopfler on an Internet blog ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 24, 2013.
- ↑ Tour-Diary by Guy Fletcher ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 24, 2013.
