Critically acclaimed Sailing to Philadelphia marked the singer-songwriter-guitarist's long-awaited return to the signature sound that made Dire Straits one of rock's most acclaimed and popular groups. On the heels of the release of Knopfler's latest album, 2004's Shangri-La, Sailing to Philadelphia-which is near gold in the U.S. and has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide-is presented in a special CD-DVDA package.
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ASIN: B00004Y6Q0 Release Date: 2000-09-26 |
Tracks:
- What It Is
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- Who's Your Baby Now
- Baloney Again
- The Last Laugh
- Do America
- El Macho
- Prairie Wedding
- Wanderlust
- Speedway At Nazareth
- Junkie Doll
- Silvertown Blues
- Sands Of Nevada
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Former Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler's second proper solo album (he's remained preoccupied with soundtrack work through the years) is a stirring and considered set of transatlantic blues. The collection is bolstered by contributions from Van Morrison ("The Last Laugh") and James Taylor (the title track), while Knopfler's guitar playing remains fresh and alive as he merges country and folk picking with electric blues. But it's as a writer that he really impresses: "Baloney Again" is a sensitive portrayal of a black gospel outfit in Jim Crow America; the title track is an intriguing distillation of Thomas Pynchon's doorstopper novel, Mason & Dixon; and "Silvertown Blues" is a stirring appreciation of blue-collar endeavor. A lovingly and honestly crafted collection, Sailing to Philadelphia shows Knopfler's talent and commitment remain as strong as ever. --Gavin MartinAlbum Description
UK pressing includes one bonus track. 14 tracks in all. Universal. 2000.Album Details
The Return of the Now Former Leader of Dire Straits on his Second Solo Record. Cameo Appearances by Van Morrison, Gillian Welch and David Rawling, Chris Difford and Glen Tillbrook (Squeeze) and James Taylor. Includes Bonus Track 'one More Matinee' which is Not on the USA Version.Customer Reviews:
Better than Clapton.......2007-05-20
I am an Ozark Moutain Daredevils fan too and I have worn out 5 of the "quilt" albums and cd's and I think one 8 track tape. Sailing to Philadephia will beat that record for me.
~Chrissy Phillips, Springfield - MO
Mark Rocks!.......2007-01-04
One of the Best.......2007-01-04
Lee....
Long Beach CA
Un vuelo de clase y estilo.......2006-11-22
Acquired listening for adult ears.......2006-07-23
MK is a renaissance man -- a wonderful storyteller, quitarist (south paw gone right with no pick? talking about left/right hemisphere of the brain looming out incredible tapesteries)vocalists and then some. I don't have a problem with his voice, it just another factor that equals the sum of a song. I'm sure he fixes small kitchen appliances on the weekends. He's a wonder.
If you don't like the cd, STUDY it, LISTEN to it, READ the friggin' lyrics. Check your DS baggage at the door and accept MK as a big boy now; an accomplished artist with more work ahead of him.
Odd thing about this cd is that there were a few cuts that were pulled and set aside for his Road Running with Emmylou Harris cd. That one took, I think I read, 7 years to piece together. I have to admit first listening, I wasn't impressed; but then I didn't study it, I didn't read the lyrics, I didn't do my homework. It's an incredible joint effort they should be proud of.
I was fortunate enough to hear him do Speedway at Nazareth live, and though it was a totally new song to me -- I was petrified end of the song.
My favorites are still Notting and Ragpickers but I am learning this one and loving it -- and I definitely am looking forward to whatever he has in the future.
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Sailing to Philadelphia (CD & DVD Audio)
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ASIN: B00069A5GE Release Date: 2005-04-19 |
Tracks:
- What It Is
- Sailing to Philadelphia
- Who's Your Baby Now
- Baloney Again
- The Last Laugh
- Do America
- El Macho
- Prairie Wedding
- Wanderlust
- Speedway At Nazareth
- Junkie Doll
- Silvertown Blues
- Sands of Nevada
Album Description
Critically acclaimed Sailing to Philadelphia marked the singer-songwriter-guitarist's long-awaited return to the signature sound that made Dire Straits one of rock's most acclaimed and popular groups. On the heels of the release of Knopfler's latest album, 2004's Shangri-La, Sailing to Philadelphia-which is near gold in the U.S. and has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide-is presented in a special CD-DVDA package.Customer Reviews:
Sailing to Philadelphia.......2007-03-16
Sheer beauty........2006-10-07
"Sailing to Philadelphia" is a wonderful piece of storytelling, not only in Mark Knopfler's lyrics and vocals but, even more so, in the album's amazingly beautiful instrumentation. This is no record for those who are only into fast, harsh tunes; although in songs like "Baloney Again," "Junkie Doll," and "Silvertown Blues" Knopfler does take issue with modern society and its problems. More than anything, however, this album is a voyage -- through time and space, from ancient Scottish citadels to 19th and 20th century America, and through musical styles ranging from blues to rock to folk to country; shining in its understated style as only Mark Knopfler's music can.
While "What It Is," the first track on the CD, is obviously reminiscent of the early Dire Straits, Knopfler said during his 2001 tour in support of the album that the song's intro and theme were actually (at least partly subconsciously) inspired by one of the Scottish folk songs he used to hear as a little boy in Glasgow. And indeed, it is hard not to picture Blue Bonnets (Over the Border) when you hear him sing about that Scottish piper standing alone high up on the parapet and the highland drums that are beginning to roll, all the while the garrison sleeps in the citadel "and something from the past just comes and stares into my soul."
From the cold tollgates of Caledonia, Mark Knopfler takes us to Durham and Northumberland and the coaly Tyne (where his own family moved from Glasgow, too, when he was still very young), and introduces us to Pynchon's heroes, the "Geordie boy" Dixon and Mason, the "baker's boy from the west country." While in many respects the guitar play in this song is vintage Knopfler, you can almost hear the waves of the Delaware River flowing out of the instrument. James Taylor's vocals, of course, are an ideal embodiment of Mason's character, and they perfectly compliment Knopfler's own voice which, it almost seems, has never been better than now.
"Prairie Wedding," the only love song of the album, carries on the theme of "A Night In Summer Long Ago" from 1996's "Golden Heart" -- the poor medieval Scottish knight has become a 19th century farmer somewhere out on the American prairies, but he still takes his queen from the train station in the small town where she has arrived up the home trail, stunned by her beauty, embarrassed by the simplicity of his own circumstances and wondering, "Do you think that you could love me Mary? You think we got a chance of a life?" (Compare the last verse of " Night In Summer Long Ago:" "Then I did lead you from the hall and we did ride upon the hill, away beyond the city wall, and sure you are my lady still. A night in summer long ago the stars were falling from the sky and still, my heart, I have to know, why do you love me, Lady, why?")
In modern-day America, Knopfler takes up the themes of black migrant workers in "Baloney Again," of a race car driver's tour from Indie track to Indie track and from accident to accident ("but at the Speedway At Nazareth I made no mistake"), and of the "tables haunted by the ghosts of Las Vegas" and the "Sands of Nevada [which] go drifting away." And as always, the song's instrumentation and Knopfler's dark and coarse rendition of the lyrics are a masterful portrayal of the desolation of a Nevada ghost town and a gambler who has met his fate there ("in a wasteland of cut glass my dreams have all crumbled, and I've paid with whatever I had left for a soul.")
The album was released in three different versions, with only the British version containing all fourteen songs Knopfler intended to include on it. ("One More Matinee" was considered inappropriate for the American market, "Do America" omitted on the version published in continental Europe.) Thus true fans are well-advised to make a point of obtaining the album's British edition. Yet, regardless which version you buy: This is Mark Knopfler at his best, featuring guest appearances not only by James Taylor but also by Van Morrison (in "The Last Laugh"), Gillian Welch (in "Prairie Wedding" and "Speedway At Nazareth") and many other artists; including, of course, "honorary 96er" Paul Franklin.
Since the release of "Sailing to Philadelphia," Mark Knopfler has geared down again and changed pace for his more recent solo albums, "Ragpicker's Dream" and "Shangri-La," both diamonds in the rough in their own right; thus proving yet again his versatility and his aversion to being type-cast. But regardless which aspect of Knopfler's amazing musical talent you appreciate most: This album will doubtlessly continue to shine as one of the brightest stars in the firmament of his creativity.
great music sounds even greater..........2006-07-22
Audio-wise, the "Sailing to Philedelphia" 5.1 DVD gave me the same revelation that I got from the "B.I.A." disc. You just hear so much more when it is not all compressed into two speakers. Knopfler's vocals really sound a lot better when they come out of their own speaker, and those little fills he does just hit you at various angles, making the music fresh. These DVDs will make you know that you were justified in upgrading to a digital sound system with speakers all over the room.
This Knopfler album has been improved over the "Brothers In Arms" release in a couple of ways. First, the B.I.A. album came as a single disc with both the stereo CD and the 5.1 DVD on opposite sides of that disc. This makes the disc vulnerable if you are inclined to lay it down since there is no "safe" painted side. The marking on those discs are very small, right along the hole, making me grab my reading glasses just to load the right side. The "Sailing to Philadelphia" set has corrected this flaw by issuing two discs, the standard stereo CD and a completely separate DVD, both with painted non-playing sides. So now you have a disc for your CD players, such as in the car and the DVD for your 5.1 surround sound system, which makes this a better deal over the previous set. Additionally, there is more on the DVD than just the audio tracks. There is a Knopfler semi-bio where he talks about his beginnings in Scotland and his evolution through his musical roots, including some guitar talk. While not really a performance type of presentation, he does do some noodling on a guitar to make points about some of the music.
The bottom line for me is that even though I have had the original CD from the day it came out, I bought this new version and not only feel it was worth it, but hope that Knopfler has plans to process all of his work into these 5.1 DVDs. I will gladly pay to replicate every one of my Dire Straits / Knopfler CDs if he does.
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ASIN: B00004YKY0 Release Date: 2000-12-11 |
Tracks:
- What It Is
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- Who's Your Baby Now
- Baloney Again
- The Last Laugh
- Do America
- Silvertown Blues
- El Macho
- Prairie Wedding
- Wanderlust
- Speedway At Nazareth
- Junkie Doll
- Sands Of Nevada
- One More Matinee
Amazon.com
Former Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler's second proper solo album (he's remained preoccupied with soundtrack work through the years) is a stirring and considered set of transatlantic blues. The collection is bolstered by contributions from Van Morrison ("The Last Laugh") and James Taylor (the title track), while Knopfler's guitar playing remains fresh and alive as he merges country and folk picking with electric blues. But it's as a writer that he really impresses: "Baloney Again" is a sensitive portrayal of a black gospel outfit in Jim Crow America; the title track is an intriguing distillation of Thomas Pynchon's doorstopper novel, Mason & Dixon; and "Silvertown Blues" is a stirring appreciation of blue-collar endeavor. A lovingly and honestly crafted collection, Sailing to Philadelphia shows Knopfler's talent and commitment remain as strong as ever. --Gavin MartinAlbum Description
UK pressing includes one bonus track. 14 tracks in all. Universal. 2000.Album Details
The Return of the Now Former Leader of Dire Straits on his Second Solo Record. Cameo Appearances by Van Morrison, Gillian Welch and David Rawling, Chris Difford and Glen Tillbrook (Squeeze) and James Taylor. Includes Bonus Track 'one More Matinee' which is Not on the USA Version.Customer Reviews:
Better than Clapton.......2007-05-20
I am an Ozark Moutain Daredevils fan too and I have worn out 5 of the "quilt" albums and cd's and I think one 8 track tape. Sailing to Philadephia will beat that record for me.
~Chrissy Phillips, Springfield - MO
Mark Rocks!.......2007-01-04
One of the Best.......2007-01-04
Lee....
Long Beach CA
Un vuelo de clase y estilo.......2006-11-22
Acquired listening for adult ears.......2006-07-23
MK is a renaissance man -- a wonderful storyteller, quitarist (south paw gone right with no pick? talking about left/right hemisphere of the brain looming out incredible tapesteries)vocalists and then some. I don't have a problem with his voice, it just another factor that equals the sum of a song. I'm sure he fixes small kitchen appliances on the weekends. He's a wonder.
If you don't like the cd, STUDY it, LISTEN to it, READ the friggin' lyrics. Check your DS baggage at the door and accept MK as a big boy now; an accomplished artist with more work ahead of him.
Odd thing about this cd is that there were a few cuts that were pulled and set aside for his Road Running with Emmylou Harris cd. That one took, I think I read, 7 years to piece together. I have to admit first listening, I wasn't impressed; but then I didn't study it, I didn't read the lyrics, I didn't do my homework. It's an incredible joint effort they should be proud of.
I was fortunate enough to hear him do Speedway at Nazareth live, and though it was a totally new song to me -- I was petrified end of the song.
My favorites are still Notting and Ragpickers but I am learning this one and loving it -- and I definitely am looking forward to whatever he has in the future.
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Mark Knopfler Manufacturer: Polygram ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000059X83 Release Date: 2001-02-26 |
Tracks:
- Sailing To Philadelphia (3:59 Edit)
- Going Home (Live)
- El Macho (Live)
- Baloney Again (Live)
Album Description
Second single and title track for the 2000 album, 'Sailing To Philadelphia'. Tracks, 'Sailing To Philadelphia' (3:59 Edit) and three non-LP live tracks, 'Going Home', 'El Macho' and 'Baloney Again'. 2001 release. Slimline jewel case.Album Details
Includes Two Live Versions of 'el Macho' and 'baloney Again.'Customer Reviews:
A must-have for a Knopfler fanatic.......2002-08-27
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