Beggars Archive Tellin' Charlatans' "Stories" Once More

Madchester band The Charlatans (known in America with the redundant appellation "The Charlatans UK") will reissue their 1997 album Tellin' Stories through Beggars Archive this month, for the album's 15th anniversary.

The enduring alt-rock band - who made humorous headlines earlier this year when a joking tweet from frontman Jim Burgess turned into a limited-edition cereal in England - suffered major tragedy during the recording of Stories, with the death of keyboardist Rob Collins in a car crash midway through production. The band pressed on, though, and the results were bountiful: Tellin' Stories was the band's third U.K. chart-topping album, and spun off the band's highest charting singles, Top 5 hits "One to Another" and "North Country Boy" and Top 10 hit "How High."

As the band preps a series of live dates in June to commemorate the album, and with Burgess having named his recent autobiography after the record, Beggars Archive will release limited double-vinyl and double-CD sets (limted to 1,000 and 2,000 copies, respectively), featuring the remastered album with a bonus disc of B-sides, including an unreleased outtake, "Rainbow Chasing." (It would morph into B-side "Don't Need a Gun.")

This set is available May 28, and is yours to preview after the jump.

The Charlatans, Tellin' Stories: Deluxe Edition (Beggars Archive (U.K.), 2012)

Disc 1: Original LP (released as Beggars Banquet BBQLP/CD 190, 1997)

With No Shoes
North Country Boy
Tellin' Stories
One to Another
You're a Big Girl Now
How Can You Leave Us
Area 51
How High
Only Teethin'
Get on It
Rob's Theme

Disc 2: B-sides

Two of Us
Reputation
Don't Need a Gun
Down with the Mook
Title Fight
Keep It to Yourself
Rainbow Chasing
Clean Up Kids
Thank You (Live @ Phoenix Festival - 7/18/1997)

Disc 2, Tracks 1-3 released as B-sides to "One to Another" (Beggars Banquet BBQ 301CD, 1996)
Disc 2, Tracks 4-5 released as B-sides to "How High" (Beggars Banquet BBQ 312CD, 1997)
Disc 2, Tracks 6 and 8-9 released as B-sides to "Tellin' Stories" (Beggars Banquet BBQ 318CD, 1997)
Disc 2, Track 7 previously unreleased - later became "Don't Need a Gun"

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