Mark Knofler

2001-04-26 Mark Knofler

Tower Theater

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The year after I moved to the Philadelphia area, Mark Knoffler put out an album called "Sailing to Philadelphia," which seemed to be a huge coincidence. I mean, why would a British rock star be writing about Philadelphia, anyway? I learned only later that it was a reference to a novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the English surveyors who established the border that became known as the Mason-Dixon line, one separating the southern and northern portions of the United States.