Fifty years after the release of their eponymous debut album in 1967 Ten Years After are back with a brand new studio album containing twelve newly written tracks. As well as original members Ric Lee and Chick Churchill, the band now features Bass Icon Colin Hodgkinson and multi-award winning Guitarist/Vocalist Marcus Bonfanti. Ric Lee & Chick Churchill were keen to record a studio album that showcases this exciting new lineup that has been touring the world as Ten Years After to great critical acclaim over the last three and a half years The album was engineered and produced by Bonfanti at his Cricklewood Green Studios in Cricklewood, North London and mixed by acclaimed Canadian mix engineer Doug Organ in Edmonton Canada. Mastering duties were taken care of by the legendary John Astley who had worked on Ten Years After remasters in the past, and had also worked on projects with individual band members in various guises. The subject material on the album ranges from childhood memories of growing up in post war Britain, songs of love lost to the rock n roll lifestyle as well as sincere odes to a life well lived. They pay homage to the steam train drivers of the past and guitar heroes of the future as well as other interesting characters the band have encountered since they embarked on this journey over fifty years ago. There is a great depth of subject matter packed into this 53 minute album. Each member met individually with Bonfanti, using him as a central writing hub and crafted the songs before full band rehearsals were used to hone them in to Ten Years After songs. The band were careful not to over rehearse this new material as they wanted to capture that same energy and spontaneity in the studio that made the early TYA albums so magical. The title A Sting In The Tale reflects the same sentiment Ric & Chick wished to convey in the 2015 live album The Name Remains The Same . Although the band lineup has changed and the music continues to evolve and grow fifty years on, the sound of the band will always be heavily rooted in the way they paved the way during the late sixties and early seventies and will never forget its incredible heritage. This record is the Sting in the continuing Tale of Ten Years After.