Mark Knopfler's Dire Straits

"Sailing To Philadelphia" could be also the then eighth studio album by Dire Straits. Like a leitmotif the unmistakable guitar of Knopfler through the CD. The already begun to "Brothers in Arms" stylistic diversity here is even more pronounced. Knopfler's penchant for folk is particularly the title track, a duet with James Taylor, clearly. Besides Taylor works with, inter alia, Van Morrison, whose vocal harmony brilliant with Knopfler's hoarse voice and guitar on "The Last Laugh". In "Sands of Nevada" Knopfler sounds very 'Dylan-esque', and on 'Junkie Doll "he comes bluesy and blacker than ever from the speakers. The longest piece, "Speedway At Nazareth," captures the quiet beginning, the builds to a furious finale, a little to the 1982 "Telegraph Road". With the already decoupled as single "What It Is" and titles like "Silvertown Blues" "Sailing To Philadelphia" also contains charts fodder of high quality.
It's a common trick to promote sales that the three additional pieces that are included in the "What It Is" single, missing on the album. Why, however, the present on the US and UK album entitled "Do America" ​​is missing on the album version published in Germany, remains a mystery to the record company, to a lack of space, it can not in any case have located ...
With pleasure I take from the sales charts that albums by artists such as Santana, Van Morrison, or indeed Mark Knopfler, which one can believe that the commercial success (more) is not the central driving force of her work, yet successful. This can among all the shooting stars in the music business a glimmer of hope for!