“Do America” by Mark Knopfler

"Do America" turns up on Sailing to Philadelphia, the second solo album Mark Knopfler released in September 2000, through Vertigo around the world and Warner Bros. in the States. It's Knopfler's own from the ground up: he wrote it, sings it and produced it with Chuck Ainlay, who recorded and mixed it too. Richard Bennett plays guitar alongside him, Glenn Worf is on bass, Chad Cromwell on drums, Jim Cox on piano and Hammond organ, and Guy Fletcher on keyboards and backing vocals.

The album around it is a sociable affair, with James Taylor, Van Morrison and Squeeze's Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook stepping up to sing, and a title track drawn from Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon. None of those guests is credited here, though: this one leaves the microphone to Knopfler.

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