“Shadows in the Rain” by Sting

"Shadows in the Rain" is one of the deeper cuts on The Dream of the Blue Turtles, the 1985 album that launched Sting's solo career. He wrote it alone, sings it and plays guitar on it, and he produced it with Pete Smith, who engineered alongside Jim Scott.

What makes it worth hearing is the band he gathered: Omar Hakim on drums, Darryl Jones on bass, Kenny Kirkland on keyboards and Branford Marsalis on saxophone, with Danny Quatrochi adding Synclavier and Dolette McDonald and Janice Pendarvis singing backup. It never went out as one of the album's five singles, which leaves it as a showcase for how hard that lineup could push him.

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