For his new studio album, "The Last Ship," which is set in a shipbuilding community, Sting brought in an eclectic group of musical collaborators with ties to his native Newcastle, England. He coerced singer-actor Jimmy Nail out of retirement, brought in frequent collaborator Kathryn Tickell and was even able to teach the always-harmonizing Wilson Brothers to sing in unison for a change, to capture the sound of chanting workers.
