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THE CORRS BRING IT ALL BACK HOME
Multiplatinum
Band Of Irish Siblings Pays Tribute To Its
Celtic Roots On Album Available From Atlantic
February 7
LOS
ANGELES -- Almost 15 years after The Corrs
became an international, multiplatinum sensation
with a unique mix of pop songs and traditional
Celtic instrumentation, the band of Irish
siblings has recorded its first album of
traditional Irish music. Rhino Entertainment
has your ticket to the Emerald Isle with
HOME, The Corrs' fifth studio album, available
February 7 at regular physical and digital
retail outlets and at www.rhino.com
for a suggested retail price of $18.98.
Produced
by Mitchell Froom and featuring the BBC
Radio 2 Orchestra arranged by Fiachra Trench,
HOME contains a collection of 13 traditional
and modern Irish songs performed by The
Corrs clan -- Andrea on lead vocals and
tin whistle; Caroline on drums, bodhran,
piano and vocals; Jim on keyboards, guitar
and vocals; and Sharon on violin and vocals.
Recorded not only to please fans who have
long clamored for an entire album of Irish
music from the group, HOME is also a tribute
to the group's mother -- Jean -- who died
in 1999. Her handwritten songbook, Andrea
says, provided a major source of material
for the album. "She used to play every
weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written
all these Irish songs out in a book. They're
songs we've loved over the years, and because
our parents played them in their band, they're
very special to us."
HOME
includes songs that span a millennium of
Irish music from "Return to Fingal,"
a song music scholars say is at least 1,000
years old, to "Old Town," a song
written in 1982 by late Thin Lizzy frontman
and fellow Irishman Phil Lynott. Along with
traditional songs such as "My Lagan
Love," "Moorlough Shore"
and "Black Is The Colour," HOME
also includes The Corrs singing several
songs in Gaelic -- "Brid Og Ni Mhaille"
and "Buachaill On Eirne."
Born and raised as a close-knit family in
Dundalk, the Corrs siblings all played instruments
from an early age. In 1990 they appeared
in Alan Parker's film The Commitments. Since
1996, the band has released four studio
albums, all of which have achieved platinum
status internationally.
THE
CORRS -- HOME
Track
Listing
1. "My Lagan Love"
2. "Spancill Hill"
3. "Peggy Gordon"
4. "Black Is The Color"
5. "Heart Like A Wheel"
6. "Buachaill On Eirne"
7. "Old Hag"
8. "Moorlough Shore"
9. "Old Town"
10. "Dimming Of The Day"
11. "Brid Og Ni Mhaille"
12. "Haste To The Wedding"
13. "Return To Fingal"
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