Paul McCartney Unplugged (1991)

Are we at all surprised that Paul McCartney, after a couple of decades, still sounds phenomenal singing the music he loves? We shouldn’t be. This officially bootlegged recording of his MTV Unplugged performance will go down as one of the greatest stripped-back albums of all time.

McCartney gets back to his basics and his roots, breaking a bunch of songs out of the vault, like I Lost My Little Girl, one of the first songs he ever wrote, at 14 years old. All over this record are McCartney solo songs like Every Night, and Beatles classics like I’ve Just Seen a Face, Blackbird, and a completely new, refreshing rendition of And I Love Her. That’s one of my all-time favorite Beatles songs, and it was amazing to hear Paul sing it reimagined.

This record plays wonderfully as a whole from start to finish, and yes… back to back to back NSAs for Paul. He’s on an unstoppable run at this point.

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Highlight Songs:

• Here, There and Everywhere

• Every Night

• And I Love Her

• Ain’t No Sunshine

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Own it, Stream it, Forget about it?

Apparently it’s very tough to find a physical copy of this record, but if you ever come across one, you should absolutely buy it! For any setting that calls for acoustic music, this album should always be in contention. Stream the hell out of it until then.

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Overall Rating:

4.5 Stars