Sailing To Philadelphia Is Not Exactly About Sailing
If you hear about Sailing to Philadelphia, you need to know that this is not really about sailing. This is rather about a super hit album by that name sung by Mark Knofler. There is another song worth mentioning in this album, i.e. the title track song which has been extracted from a novel about the two famous English land surveyors which established the border between the North an South America since 1820 based on the existence and abolishment of slavery, which continued in the country until the Great American Civil War ended it completely.
What About Mark Knofler - The Man Behind The Sailing To Philadelphia
Many say that Mark Knofler is a very talented and inspired songwriter whose songs are plucked from real life again and again and again. Whether it is the Sailing to Philadelphia album or any other song, Mark has seen to it that each of the songs has an exceptional human element. For example 'Money For Nothing' has been inspired from the discussion of two delivery people complaining to each other about their fate.
There are plenty of examples as such as 'Private Dancer', 'Private Investigations', 'The Man's Too Strong', 'Sultan of Swing' and so many other songs which have found themselves a particular unassailable niche. Each of these songs is able to paint a vivid picture in the mind of the reader and listener. It is like it is talking with you because all these songs are written in the first-narrative from.
The Sailing to Philadelphia is a heart touching song that is inspired by the records about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who in the year 1760 established the border between North and South America practically cutting the country into half and condemning with full heart slavery and what it had stood for.
The album Sailing to Philadelphia was released in the year 2000. However, in the albums released in the USA there are slight changes from the original. You would find that 'Do America' which would have been the sixth song on the album has been replaced with 'One More Matinee' for both the USA and UK markets. In Europe the Sailing to Philadelphia album is as it was originally created without any replacement. Both the releases were instant hits and once again pushed Mark Knofner into stardom.
After this hit, Mark had brought out yet another album in 2005 which was once again a runaway success. This album focused on real life heroes such as Ray Kroc (the founder of the McDonald), Elvis Presley's manager Coloner Tom Parker, and so on.
