- “Message in a Bottle”
- “Roxanne”
- “All This Time”
- “I Wrote Your Title (Upon My Coronary heart)”
In each musician’s profession, there are the songs that stand out among the many relaxation. Maybe it is a tune that modified all the pieces for them, the tune they grew to like, or the tune that was the toughest to put in writing.
These are the songs we wish to study extra about on a brand new World Cafe function referred to as Backtracking. The premise is straightforward: We’ll give artists a protracted checklist of prompts they’ll select from. Then, they will look again by their catalog and choose the tune that matches finest. They will inform us the tales behind them and carry out them stay.
In our newest installment, Sting joins us to speak concerning the tune that he nonetheless loves performing and the way he performs it when he is performed it 1,000,000 instances.
“My job is to carry out a tune that I could have written 40 years in the past with the identical vitality, identical curiosity, identical ardour, as if I had simply written it this afternoon,” he says.
Sting additionally talks concerning the tune that modified his life, which occurs to be the identical tune that earned him a fairly spectacular distinction:
“I’m most likely the world’s most profitable butt pianist,” he says.
Discover out what tune 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.
