Track Listing

1. Intro Alicia's Prayer
2. Karma
3. Heartburn
4. Woman's Worth
5. Unbreakable
6. How Come You Don't Call Me
7. If I Was Your Woman
8. If I Ain't Got You
9. Every Little Bit Hurts
10. Streets Of New York (City Life)
11. Wild Horses - Keys, Alicia & Adam Levine
12. Diary
13. You Don't Know My Name
14. Stolen Moments
15. Fallin'
16. Love It Or Leave It Alone/Welcome To Jamrock - Keys, Alicia & Damian Marley/Mos Def/Common

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1920 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

From the Label
Alicia Keys brings back MTV’s Unplugged! The CD includes her MTV Unplugged performance, which took place at The BAM Harvey Theatre on July 14th, where Alicia performed hits from her current and debut albums, including "Karma", "Woman's Worth", "How Come U Don't Call", "If I Ain’t Got You", "Diary", "You Don't Know My Name" and "Fallin’." Included in her performance was a mesmerizing duet of "Wild Horses" with Maroon 5’s Adam Levine.

The highlights of the evening were definitely the unveiling of new music, including a soulful track entitled "Unbreakable", which will be the first single from this release, and a cover of "Every Little Bit". She closed the show with guest rappers Common and Mos Def, performing the hip-hop classic "Love It Or Leave It Alone", with the blow-out finale bringing out Damien Marley for a group performance of the current reggae smash "Welcome To Jamrock".

CD Description
MTV revived its Unplugged acoustic series after a three year hiatus with this set from US soul diva Alicia Keys. As onemight expect this is a selection of tracks from her two studio albums performed in a stripped-down style with Keys behind the piano as usual. The show is also bolstered by the addition of two new songs including the single 'Unbreakable', acover of Aretha Franklin's 'Every Little Bit Hurts', and guest appearances by Damian Marley, rappers Common and Mos Def, and Maroon 5's Adam Levine.

Customer Reviews

Breathtaking
This is definately one of my favourite albums ever because it covers all her best material from her albums but a new amazing set up. All her original songs have been reworked with nothing sounding the same as her studio albums. But the best bit about this cd is probably Alicia herself as she has so much energy and her voice is incredible. It is raw and refined at the same time and the emotion is so strong. This is shown most clearly in How Come You Don't Call and the brilliant new Every Little Bit Hurts. Don't be fooled into thinking that most of the stuff on this album has been heard before because it hasn't.
My top 5 tracks are:
1. How Come You Don't Call Me (such a brilliant performance)
2. Unbreakble (Great new song written by her and Kanye west)
3. Every Little Bit Hurts (So much soul)
4. Wild Horses (Beautiful)
5. Diary (she and her backing singer are truly amazing)

One of my favourite albums I own that never bores me when ever i listen to it!

Truly Remarkable
Alicia Keys has such a remarkable voice and her stage presence is that of a real soul legend (she'll get there)After owning all of her previous work and seeing her live in 2004 and 2005 i knew that the Unplugged set wasn't gonna dissapoint me in the slightest and i wasn't wrong.
There's a few surprises and a few old favourites most notably are the covers of "Wild Horses" which has been covered plenty of times in the past Keys teams up with Adam Levine of Marron 5 and does a emotional duet that is truly heartwrenching one of the greatest remakes i've heard. The other remake is the classive "Every Little Bit Hurts" which was recorded first by soul singer Brenda Holloway and she does it justice and was the second single the video was like a tribute to Motown a great throwback video. Among the many highlights of this concert a few spring to mind the sheer rawness of "If I Aint Got You" is just breathtaking as well as one of the newer songs "Unbreakable" which celebrates black love it was the song that promoted the album and did quite well in the states. The version of "Fallin'" is that from the Ali soundtrack a more melodic version of the orginal and very haunting i felt "Heartburn" was the main song that was out of place it was too jumpy the 7 minute opus of "Streets of New York [City Life]" is wonderful Alicia gives us a nice poem then goes into the song lovely instrumentation.The last track "Love It or Leave It Alone/Welcome To Jamrock" plays the set out nicely joining Keys is Common,Mos Def & Reggae artist Damian Marley, Keys sings the hook on the latter which surprised me and it work very well. "Love It Or Leave It Alone" is just fantastic Mos Def and Common are just some of the greatest rappers alive and they sound actually good unlike alot of rappers.

Top 5
1.Wild Horses
2.A Woman's Worth
3.Diary
4.If I Aint Got You
5.Fallin'/Love It Or Leave It Alone...medley/Every Little Bit Hurts

Alicia Keys is one of the true talents that's keeping that revival r&b style alive i hope she'll be around for the next 40 years like her predecessors Lena Horne,Nina Simone,Roberta Flack...etc
Also, The Unplugged DVD of the concert is available too which is just as great with some cool special features
Buy This!

The best un-plugged album ever!!
This album is brillaint if you like listening to live music and of course the singer herself alicia keys, this album has music from both of her recent albums SONGS IN A MINOR and THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS together with some new materail and new songs.
After hearing her last album i was hooked, this live album is filled with raw emotion where you can hear it in her voice, what a voice!! like whitney houston her voice is so powerful that it makes you go goose bumpy!
All her albums are top notch where she has always stayed true to her self in making brilliant music.
rating 10 out of 10 excellent.