Live & Acoustic (Missy Higgins album)

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Live & Acoustic
Live & Acoustic by Missy Higgins.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedNovember 2005
Recorded8 November 2005
Genre Pop
Length20:59
Producer Tony Brooke
Missy Higgins chronology
All for Believing
(2005)
Live & Acoustic
(2005)
On a Clear Night
(2007)

Live & Acoustic is a live album by Australian pop singer-songwriter Missy Higgins.

Missy Higgins Australian singer-songwriter

Melissa Morrison Higgins is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Her Australian number-one albums are The Sound of White (2004), On a Clear Night (2007) and The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (2012), and her singles include "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in 2004 and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005, she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. Higgins won her seventh ARIA in 2007. Her third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle, was released in Australia in June 2012. As of August 2014, Higgins' first three studio albums had sold over one million units.

Contents

Background and release

On 8 November 2005, Missy Higgins was recorded live at the San Francisco Apple Store's theater. The album was part of a series of in-store appearances that were recorded by Apple and released exclusively through the iTunes Store. [1]

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Track listing

  1. "All for Believing" (Intro) – 0:40
  2. "All for Believing" – 3:10
  3. "Ten Days" (Intro) – 0:17
  4. "Ten Days" – 3:41
  5. "The Special Two" (Intro) – 0:36
  6. "The Special Two" – 4:26
  7. "Scar" (Intro) – 0:28
  8. "Scar" – 3:43
  9. "This is How it Goes" – 3:58

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References

  1. "Live and Acoustic (at The Apple Store)". Silent Way. Retrieved 2 November 2016.