Seventeen time Grammy Award winning bass player and singer for The Police, Sting has been making music in bands and as a solo artist for over 40 years. This year marks the 30th anniversary of his triple platinum album “Ten Summoner’s Tales”. The album also earned Sting three Grammy Awards and a Brit Award.
In celebration, Sting is releasing a digital only expanded edition of the album. The new release features the original 12 songs plus 15 bonus songs – eleven of which have never been released in a digital format.
The album was originally released on March 1, 1993 and includes the hits “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You”, “Fields of Gold” and “Shape of My Heart”. The bonus tracks are a mix of B-sides to singles, live performances, alternate recordings, and remixes.
Known the world over simply as Sting – a name bestowed on the artist by some former bandmates over his choice of clothing – his given surname is Sumner. Sting does a play on words of his name and “The Canterbury Tales” the summoner by Geoffrey Chaucer for the title of the album.
The album is available now and sells for $14.99 on iTunes and $14,49 on Amazon Music
The tracklisting for the expanded anniversary release of “Ten Summoner’s Tales”:
“Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith in You”
“Love is Stronger Than Justice”
“Fields of Gold”
“Heavy Cloud No Rain”
“She’s too Good for Me”
“Seven Days”
“Saint Augustine in Hell”
“It’s Probably Me”
“Everybody Laughed but You”
“Shape of My Heart”
“Something the Boy Said”
“Epilogue (Nothing ‘Bout Me)”
“We Work the Black Seam”
“January Stars”
“If I Ever Lose My Faith in You” / “Miracle of Science” mix
“If I Ever Lose My Faith in You” / “Hoax” mix
“It’s Probably Me” with Eric Clapton
“Nothing ‘Bout Me” remix
“Nothing ‘Bout Me” remix with horn intro
“Love is Stronger than Justice”
“Seven Days” radio edit
“Nothing ‘Bout Me” with fade
“Shape of My Heart” Live
“Love is Stronger than Justice” live
“It’s Probably Me” live
“Purple Haze” live
“Ain’t No Sunshine” live
Feature photo credit: courtesy of Ume nd Meg McLean Corso