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"We called it Home because it's just the truth, isn't it? That's the place it all comes from.'' Andrea Corr, August 2005

Home is where the heart is. It's also the title of the album a lot of Corrs fans have been waiting for the band to make for a very long time - a magnificent collection of songs ancient and modern that fully reflects their Irish musical roots and Celtic influences, but delivered with a thoroughly contemporary sensibility.



It follows little more than a year after their last album, Borrowed Heaven, an astonishingly fast time to follow-up such a successful release in the modern record industry. Yet the reason is very simple. Home is a collection of the songs that are most close to their hearts and an album they made not because they had to but because they wanted to.

''The liberating thing was that there was really no pressure on us to make this record,'' says Caroline Corr, the band's drummer who on this record also spends a lot of her time playing the traditional Irish percussion known as the bodhran. ''The record company wasn't asking us for an album so soon after the last one. We made it because we wanted to do it. That was a lovely feeling. There was nobody saying 'where's the hit single?' It's not that sort of a record. It's a side of the Corrs perhaps we've neglected of late. All over the world people tell us they love our Irish stuff and that they want to hear more of it.''

The Corrs have always included Celtic elements alongside their own songs, ever since their multi-platinum debut album, Forgiven Not Forgotten, opened with the traditional Irish instrumental Erin Shore a decade ago. And the moment when they break out the tin whistles and bodhrans to accompany Sharon's violin and Jim's guitar and recreate the atmosphere of an Irish pub session on some of the world's biggest stages has long been a highlight of their concerts. Home is the Corr's present to those who've asked them to do more of it.

Listen to Pop Playlist - 12-09-2010

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