Editing Sailing to Philadelphia (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Sailing to Philadelphia
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Mark Knopfler]]
| cover      = MK_Sailing_to_Philadelphia.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|2000|09|25|df=y}}
| recorded   = 1998–2000
| venue      =
| studio     = 
*[[Ocean Way Nashville|Ocean Way]], Nashville
*Tracking Room, Nashville
| genre      = {{flatlist|
*[[Roots rock]]
*[[folk rock]]
*[[Blues music|blues]]}}
| length     = {{Duration|m=60|s=11}} <small>(International)</small> <br />{{Duration|m=60|s=25}} <small>(USA)</small>
| label      = [[Mercury Records|Mercury]]<br />[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]] <small>(USA)</small>
| producer   = [[Mark Knopfler]], [[Chuck Ainlay]]
| prev_title = [[Metroland (album)|Metroland]]
| prev_year  = 1999
| next_title = [[A Shot at Glory (album)|A Shot at Glory]]
| next_year  = 2002
}}

'''''Sailing to Philadelphia''''' is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist [[Mark Knopfler]], released on 25 September 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/5672-2608-2|title=BPI}}</ref> by [[Vertigo Records]] internationally, and by [[Warner Bros. Records]] in the United States.<ref name="allmusic-stp">{{cite web|last=Ruhlmann |first=William |title=Sailing to Philadelphia |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/sailing-to-philadelphia-r499009 |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=24 November 2011}}</ref> The album contains featured vocal performances by [[James Taylor]],  [[Van Morrison]], and Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook of [[Squeeze (band)|Squeeze]].

The title track is drawn from ''[[Mason & Dixon]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]], a novel about [[Charles Mason]] and [[Jeremiah Dixon]],<ref name="independent">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/off-the-straits-and-narrow-701809.html |title=Off the Straits and narrow |work=The Independent |date=22 September 2000 |access-date= 27 May 2009}}</ref> 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]].