''The Corrs Unplugged'' is a live album by

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band

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, released in 1999. The album is part of MTV's Unplugged series. It was released internationally but for a short time was not available in the

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until later. The song "No Frontiers" was sung by Sharon and Caroline, with Jim playing the piano. It is a cover of the

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song, written by

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. This session was recorded live on in front of an audience at

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, and was released on CD,

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and VHS. The CD release features the songs in a somewhat different order to in which they were actually performed.

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was omitted from the track list and is only featured as a bonus track on some releases. The DVD and VHS retains the original song order and are also mostly unedited, while the CD edits out almost all of the talking between songs.

Track listing

CD

DVD and VHS track listing

# "Only When I Sleep" # "What Can I Do" # "Radio" # "Toss The Feathers" # "Everybody Hurts" # "Dreams" # "Runaway" # "Forgiven Not Forgotten" # "At Your Side" # "Little Wing" # "No Frontiers" # "Queen Of Hollywood" # "Old Town (This Boy Is Cracking Up)" # "(Lough) Erin Shore" # "So Young"

Personnel

The Corrs

Andrea Corr Andrea Jane Corr MBE (born 17 May 1974) is an Irish singer, songwriter, musician and actress. Corr debuted in 1990 as the lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs along with her three elder siblings Caroline, Sharon ...

– lead vocals,

tin whistle The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria. ...

Caroline Corr Caroline Georgina Corr MBE (born 17 March 1973), known to fans as the "Chick with the Stick", is an Irish singer and drummer for the Celtic folk rock band The Corrs. In addition to the drums, Corr plays the ''bodhrán'', ''cajón'', percussions ...

– drums,

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

bodhrán The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'' or ''bodhráns'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or othe ...

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest). ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "No Frontiers" *

Sharon Corr Sharon Helga Corr MBE (born 24 March 1970) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality. She is best known as a member of the pop-rock band The Corrs, which she co-founded in 1990 with her elder brother Jim and younger sis ...

–

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "No Frontiers" *

Jim Corr James Steven Ignatius Corr, (born 31 July 1964) is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter and DJ. He is a member of the Irish folk/rock band The Corrs, the other members being his three younger sisters Andrea, Sharon and Caroline. Musical ...

–

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, backing vocals

Guest musicians

Anthony Drennan Anthony "Anto" Drennan (born on 1 November 1958) is an English-born Irish guitarist noted for his involvement with the Corrs, Genesis and Mike + the Mechanics among others. Drennan is from a musical Irish family and was born in Luton, England ...

– acoustic guitar,

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–

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, percussion * Mitchell Froom –

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

, piano * The Irish Film Orchestra conducted by Fiachra Trench – orchestration

Technical

* Engineers – Tim Martin and Tim Summerhayes * Producers – Mitchell Froom and the Corrs

Charts

Album charts

Video charts

Year-end charts

All-time charts

Certifications

Album certifications

Video certifications

Release history

* , Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Atlantic 7567-80986-2, CD * , Europe, Canada, UK, Atlantic 7567-80986-2, CD * , Singapore, Atlantic 7567-80986-2/4, CD (with bonus track) * , Australia, Atlantic 7567-80992-2, CD (with "Dreams" bonus track) * , Japan, Warner AMCY-7120, CD (with "Dreams" bonus track) * , Mexico, Atlantic CS 809862–8, CD (with "Dreams" bonus track) * , Germany, Atlantic 0756-792890-2, CD (reissue, with different bonus track) * , Taiwan, Warner 7567-80986-2, CD (with bonus disk of "Rainy Day" 7567-80986-4) * , Australia, Warner 7567-93277-2, CD (double album with ''

The Best of The Corrs ''Best of The Corrs'' is a compilation album by the Republic of Ireland, Irish pop rock band the Corrs, released in Ireland on 19 October 2001. The album consisted of the band's best-selling singles since their first chart appearance in 1995 wi ...

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References

{{Authority control Unplugged (Corrs, The album) The Corrs albums Albums produced by Mitchell Froom 1999 live albums Live video albums 1999 video albums 143 Records live albums 143 Records video albums Atlantic Records live albums Atlantic Records video albums