Editing Sailing to Philadelphia (section)

==Critical reception==
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|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic-stp"/>
|rev2 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="rs-stp">{{cite magazine|last=Wild |first=David |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/markknopfler/albums/album/307607/review/5943893/sailing_to_philadelphia |title=Mark Knopfler: Sailing To Philadelphia |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=3 October 2000 |access-date=1 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107111125/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/markknopfler/albums/album/307607/review/5943893/sailing_to_philadelphia |archive-date=November 7, 2007 }}</ref>
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In his review for [[AllMusic]], William Ruhlmann gave the album three out of five stars, writing that "in one song after another on this album, you get the feeling that he started out playing some familiar song in a specific genre and eventually extrapolated upon it enough to call it an original."<ref name="allmusic-stp"/> In his review for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine, David Wild gave the album three and a half out of five stars, writing that the album is "a welcome flashback" to Knopfler's earlier work with [[Dire Straits]].<ref name="rs-stp"/> Wild continued
{{blockquote|Knopfler duets with James Taylor on the title track, which deftly explores the relationship between Mason and Dixon; Van Morrison trades lines on the soulful "The Last Laugh." With Sailing to Philadelphia, Knopfler has taken a break from the rootsy side projects and soundtrack work that have occupied him for the past 17 years, and has evoked some of the grandeur of prime Dire Straits.<ref name="rs-stp"/>}}

By 2002, the album had sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cdshakedown.com/051603.htm |title=Sacred Steel |work=CD Shakedown |date=16 May 2003 |access-date=5 November 2011 |archive-date=28 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928224133/http://www.cdshakedown.com/051603.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="delafont">{{cite web|url=http://delafont.com/music_acts/mark-knopfler.htm |title=Delafont, Mk bio |work=Delafont  |access-date=5 November 2011}}</ref> In some territories—Western Europe for example—the album was released as an [[HDCD]] and a 5.1 [[Surround Sound]] [[DVD-A]].