Album · Mark Knopfler
Sailing to Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler
Sailing to Philadelphia is an album by Mark Knopfler, released in 2000. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 11 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sailing to Philadelphia”, on 6 lists with a best position of #191.
Sailing to Philadelphia, Mark Knopfler's second solo album, came out in 2000, five years after he'd put Dire Straits to bed, and it's the work of a man happily following his fingers down back roads. He produced it with Chuck Ainlay, and the sound is roots music in its Sunday best: country rock, folk and blues, all carried on that clean, fingerpicked guitar.
He called in some famous friends, too. James Taylor and Van Morrison both sing on it, as do Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze. The title track takes its story from Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon, about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the English surveyors who marked out a boundary in the 1760s that later became shorthand for the divide between the American North and South.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sailing to Philadelphia on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sailing to Philadelphia | 6 | #191 | – | 2009–2024 | |
| 2 | What It Is | 4 | #396 | – | 2009–2020 | |
| 3 | Do America | 1 | #761 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.