- “Message in a Bottle”
- “Roxanne”
- “All This Time”
- “I Wrote Your Identify (Upon My Coronary heart)”
In each musician’s profession, there are the songs that stand out among the many relaxation. Maybe it is a track that modified every little thing for them, the track they grew to like, or the track that was the toughest to jot down.
These are the songs we wish to be taught extra about on a brand new World Cafe function referred to as Backtracking. The premise is straightforward: We’ll give artists a protracted record of prompts they will select from. Then, they will look again via their catalog and decide the track that matches greatest. They’re going to inform us the tales behind them and carry out them reside.
In our newest installment, Sting joins us to speak in regards to the track that he nonetheless loves performing and the way he performs it when he is performed it 1,000,000 occasions.
“My job is to carry out a track that I’ll have written 40 years in the past with the identical vitality, similar curiosity, similar ardour, as if I had simply written it this afternoon,” he says.
Sting additionally talks in regards to the track that modified his life, which occurs to be the identical track that earned him a fairly spectacular distinction:
“I’m most likely the world’s most profitable butt pianist,” he says.
Discover out what track Sting performs butt piano in on this all new episode of Backtracking.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.