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Year of first release: 2005
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Tracklists may vary; this is from release 5051011-02932-5| # | Title | Lyrics | Listen | |
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| 1. | My Lagan Love (4:19) |  |
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| 2. | Spancill Hill (5:08) | |
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| 3. | Peggy Gordon (4:25) | |
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| 4. | Black Is The Colour (3:48) | |
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| 5. | Heart Like A Wheel (3:52) | |
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| 6. | Buachaill Ón Éirne (3:14) | |
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| 7. | Old Hag (3:43) | (I) | ||
| 8. | Moorlough Shore (4:16) | |
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| 9. | Old Town (3:46) | |
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| 10. | Dimming Of The Day (2:57) | |
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| 11. | Bríd Óg Ní Mháille (3:38) | |
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| 12. | Haste To The Wedding (2:27) | (I) | ||
| Total running time: 45:33 | ||||
Singles
- Heart Like A Wheel / Old Town (Oct. 2005)
Credits
Produced by Mitchell Froom
Recorded at Westland Studios and RTE Studios, Dublin (Ireland) and at Whitfield Street Studios, London (UK)
Thanks to (among others) Bono, Shaun Evans, Jason Flom, David Foster, Gavin Friday, Helen Hughes, John Hughes Jnr., Marie Hughes Jnr., Ciaran Tanham and all our fans everywhere... and remembering Brendan O'Hare
Very special thanks to: Marie Hughes, Gavin Bonnar, Frank Woods
Dedicated to Jean and Gerry
Trivia
All songs on this album are cover versions, some of traditional Irish songs, but they are not exclusively instrumentals. These songs were taken from a handwritten songbook by the Corrs' late mother, Jean. "Home" is dedicated to her and the Corrs' father Gerry. Said Andrea: "She used to play every weekend in pubs with daddy and she had written all these Irish songs out in a book. They are songs we have loved over the years and because our parents played them in their band, they are very special to us."
Andrea about "My Lagan Love": "[It] is raw, earthy and yet exotic. It is truly evocative of an Ireland that is definitely in the past, where a person's desires are not easily fulfilled. So the hunger is even stronger."
There are some minor modifications made to the songs concerning the lyrics - some verses are left out and the pronouns sometimes change from "she" to "he". Andrea mentioned that even though most of the songs are about a man longing for a woman, she likes the fact that they are sung by a female singer, which is not unusual in traditional Irish music.
Both "Buachaill ón Éirne" ("Boy from Ireland") and "Bríd Óg Ní Mháille" ("Bridget O'Malley") are sung in Gaelic and well-known to the Corrs since they learned these way back in school.
For this record, the Corrs were accompanied by the BBC Radio 2 Concert Orchestra and worked with orchestral arranger Fiachra Trench. The orchestra parts were dubbed over later, which means the Corrs recorded their part of the songs and then later the orchestra sound was added.
The idea for this traditional album came from Caroline, who said, "everywhere we go in the world we are asked to do more Irish music". She probably had an album full of instrumentals in mind, but as soon as her siblings jumped on the bandwaggon, that idea was quickly dropped.
Recording of "Home" took six months. As Caroline was still recovering from having given birth to her second child Georgina, she is only heard on the bodhrán on this album. Behind the drums were Jason Duffy (tracks 1,7 and 12) and Matt Chamberlain respectively (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 11).
The artsy cover not only bears a resemblance to the Beatles' "Revolver", but also to the cover for "Talk On Corners". The illustration of the Corrs were done by David Downton, whereas the rest of the images are by Sarah Foley and Anthony Liu. The font used for cover and back is called "le vengeur agaçant".
On the cover a female fiddle player, Glendalough Tower and a Gaelic cross can be seen. The Corrs' first video, "Runaway", was also partly shot in Glendalough.
"Old Town" has appeared on "Unplugged" before and is a cover version of Phil Lynott's / Thin Lizzy song . The song premiered on the BBC2 radio show "Wake up to Wogan" on August 23rd, 2005.
The song "Haste To The Wedding" is an instrumental which has been performed by the band before, actually for many years. It can be found on the DVDs "Live At The Royal Albert Hall" and "Live At Lansdowne Road", as well as on the single "So Young (Remix)".
Sharon sings "Dimming Of The Day", which was written by Richard Thompson and among other performed by Any Trouble .
There are some minor spelling mistakes in the booklet, which mixes repeatedly British and American spelling. Mostly the apostrophe is missing or place incorrectly ("young one's" in "Spancill Hill" or "my true loves hair" in "Black Is The Colour").
A few explanations about the Irish vocabulary used in the lyrics:
- "My Lagan Love":
- Lagan = a river in Northern Ireland, flowing through Belfast
- lenanshee = fairy-lover: a banshee (a fairy) feeding off from the love of men, thereby destroying them
- shieling = a hut or shelter for shepherds and fishers
- crickets' singing stone = crickets were a sign of good luck and therefore often placed on the oven
- bog wood = wood found in swamps, rather old and of a certain colour
- "Spancill Hill":
- Spancill Hill = (also known as Spancilhill, Spance Hill) town in the county of Clare, famous for its annual horse fair
- Cluney = (also known as Clooney) parish near Spancill Hill
- britches = pants for riding (also: breeches)
- "Black Is The Colour":
- Clyde = a river in Southern Scotland
- "Buachaill Ón Éirne":
- glen = valley
- Tyrone = county in Ulster (Norther Ireland)
- County Mayo = county in the north-west of Ireland
- "Moorlough Shore":
- Moorlough Shore = the shore of a lake near a swamp
- Maine = New England state in the USA
- "Bríd Óg Ní Mháille":
- Oriel = ancient Irish kingdom in Ulster
- sloe = bush with black berries and white blossoms
- wedlock = marriage
- Drum Slieve = a city, literally "mountain ridge"