MARK KNOPFLER AND JAMES TAYLOR – Sailing to Philadelphia REACTION #jamestaylor #markknopfler #musicreactions
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MARK KNOPFLER ȘI JAMES TAYLOR – Navigare către Philadelphia REACȚIE – Este atât de visător – Prima audiere
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I just knew that this would be wonderful David, I love them both so much.
From Mark's first guitar note you are drawn in. The song is told in an autobiographical form about the famous surveyors Mason /Dixon. Mark's and James are magical together. James Taylor and Van Morrison both added vocals to Mark's album. It sold 3.5 million albums. Jame's also included this song on his 2002 album October Road. Wonderful collaboration. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and David.
Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
This song is indeed based on a true story. The Mason-Dixon Line was a surveyors line across the what is now the western border of Delaware and the southern border of Pennsylvania, plotted in the 1760s by the two surveyors portrayed in this song, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. Later, the territory north of this line marked the Northern (non-slave-owning) states, while the territory south of the line included the Southern (slave-owning) states.
Great song from a great album. My personal favourite from this album is “Speedway at Nazareth.” I really want to thank you for showcasing some of Mark Knopflers post Dire Straits work. There’s lots of it, dabbling with all sorts of genres. Beautiful music and lyrics as you’d expect from this bizarrely, forgotten genius.
One my favorites from Mark, there is a good video of how he researched to write this song.
The Mason/Dixon Line. In pre-independent America, Mason and Dixon were hired the British Government to survey and establish the border that defined the Pennsylvania colony on the north with roughly Virginia, Delaware and Maryland on the south and Pennsylvania on the north. Later, as the United States the Mason/Dixon line defined the separation between the northern Free states and the Southern Slave states. So, the dialogue between Charlie Mason and Dixon (the Geordie boy) was whether this new country would be a land of liberty or not. A beautiful and deeply meaningful song.
You should do Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Where Do The Children Play.
One of my favourites from Knopfler. He's also probably my favourite artist, favourite guitarist for sure.
He's truly a poet as well as a superb musician.
BTW Harri…Knopfler's favourite style is a fusion of folk, country/rockabilly and blues. With a little pop thrown in.
Gosh, it’s been a long time since I’ve heard this. Thanks Harry
I love “El Macho “ from this album. Give it a try.
You can also hear Paul Franklin playing the pedal steel in the background, he played with Mark solo, with Dire Straits and with Marks other band "The Notting Hillbillies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__yJN2TuBCo
David – This submission was excellent and particularly enjoyable if one was born and raised in Philadelphia. 😎 I haven't heard this magical pairing for too many years. Terrific performance by Mark and James. Harri, your review was most insightful and enjoyable. Thanks to both of you for this one!
Thank you for this reaction.
Lots of Dire Straits references in this album!
What It Is, Silvertown Blues, Speedway At Nazareth, One More Matinee, and of course Sailing To Philadelphia.
Check them all out, you won’t regret it.
Besides being one of the most fantastic guitarist and composer he is a fantastic story teller too.
The reference to the Georgie boy and the boy from the west country are also references to the north and in south of America. The industrial north and agricultural south west of Britain.
Another masterpiece created by Mark Knopfler. Never has there been another artist who invokes movies and pictures in your mind, like Mark Knopfler. He can turn his hand to anything. He wrote this song with James Taylor in mind. Whilst Knopfler is known for his virtuoso style, he really can do anything. The man is a genius. What a catalogue of music he had, solo, soundtrack and with Dire Straits
Mason & Dixon, an epic postmodernist novel by Thomas Pynchon first published in 1997, centers on the collaboration of the historical Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the American Revolutionary War.
I grew up with a lot of guitar because my dad plays (acoustic six-string and twelve-string), and he's always said that if God plays the guitar, the sound's probably pretty close to Mark Knopfler.