It’s been 10 years since Maverick Sabre dropped his critically acclaimed debut LP Lonely Are The Brave. The album went certified gold within the first two weeks of its release, not to mention landed #2 on the UK Charts.

Now Maverick Sabre is celebrating the anniversary of Lonely Are The Brave with a re-recorded anniversary edition after having retrieved ownership of his masters. Re-titled Lonely Are The Brave (Mav’s Version), the record will include the original tracks as well as three new demos, and acoustic versions of his cuts ‘Lonely Side Of Life’, ‘I Need’ and ‘I Used To Have It All’.

Lonely Are The Brave (Mav’s Version) is out November 30th on FAMM.

Touching on the re-release, Maverick Sabre stated:

“I’ve learned over the past 10 years that a musician’s career is an ever-growing tapestry. You never stop, it’s never just one picture or one painting and that’s it, you can tell a story over time that is never ending. I want to inspire the conversation amongst other artists to think about doing stuff like this, to not have a closed book on their released music, it can have another life and these can be artistic moves as well as business moves. There is no final chapter in music, if you have scope to add something to it or bring it back into your catalogue under your own ownership, under your own terms then artists should be inspired to do that. I would like this to be part of a story hopefully along the way that just ignites a conversation. There’s no boundaries on any of this.”

He also added:

“Coming back to the demos after 10 years was pretty special. I feel like so much music sits on musician’s hardrive over the years and fans of the music never actually get to hear it. I think it’s a beautiful way to have an insight and bring people into the world of the creative process and bring people into music that may have been lost forever if never released. On the acoustic tracks I think there’s always something special about a song if you can strip it back to one instrument and a vocal and it still has strength and the message still carries through. I feel these songs have always worked really powerfully stripped back, open and honest. It makes the lyrics more vulnerable and the tone and the emotion of the voice clearer and straight to the point.”