"unplugged" -- in fact, solo with an acoustic guitar or piano on all but a couple of tunes -- is otherwise a retrospective concert album on which cherry-picks songs from her five studio albums, including the hits and and others from her breakthrough debut record. The studio album arrangements always tried to support and augment ' idiosyncratic writing and playing style, which sounds less unusual when she is simply accompanying herself, and in many ways more effective. a previously unreleased song, strays into territory, mixing religion with eroticism. ~ William Ruhlmann