Sailing to Philadelphia

Sailing to Philadelphia
Studio album by
Mark Knopfler
Released25 September 2000 (2000-09-25)
Recorded1998–2000
Studio
  • Ocean Way, Nashville
  • Tracking Room, Nashville
Genre
Length60:11 (International)
60:25 (USA)
LabelMercury
Warner Bros. (USA)
ProducerMark Knopfler, Chuck Ainlay
Mark Knopfler chronology
Metroland
(1999) 		Sailing to Philadelphia
(2000) 		A Shot at Glory
(2002)

Sailing to Philadelphia is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 25 September 2000[1] by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.[2] The album contains featured vocal performances by James Taylor, Van Morrison, and Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze.

The title track is drawn from Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, a novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,[3] the two English surveyors who established the border separating Pennsylvania and Delaware from Maryland and Virginia in the 1760s. This border later became known as the Mason–Dixon line and has been used since the 1820s to denote the border between the Southern United States and the Northern United States.

  1. ^ "BPI".
  2. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Sailing to Philadelphia". Allmusic. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  3. ^ "Off the Straits and narrow". The Independent. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 27 May 2009.