The Corrs - Home

A major source of the material for Home was an old handwritten songbook owned by the Corrs' mother Jean, who died in 1999 and to whom the album, like Borrowed Heaven, is dedicated. ''She used to play every weekend in pubs with daddy and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book," Andrea says. ''They're songs we've loved over the years and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us.''

Other songs came from different sources. Richard Thompson's Dimming Of The Day was a favourite from the version recorded by Bonnie Raitt. Old Town
was a song they'd done before on their 1999 MTV Unplugged set. Heart Like A Wheel, written by Kate and Anna McGarrigle, was a song Jim Corr had played with Dolores Keane in his days as a session musician. "I think Jim's musicianship on this record is outstanding," Caroline says. "I don't think he's ever really had full credit for that."
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