MTV Unplugged (Maxwell EP)

MTV Unplugged
Live album (EP) by
ReleasedJuly 15, 1997
RecordedMay 7, 1997
VenueBrooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, New York
Genre
Length34:18
LabelColumbia
CK 68515
ProducerMUSZE (Maxwell)
Maxwell chronology
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
(1996)
MTV Unplugged
(1997)
Embrya
(1998)

MTV Unplugged is a live EP by American neo soul singer Maxwell, released by Columbia Records in mid-1997. The album features recordings of Maxwell's performance on the MTV concert series program MTV Unplugged, filmed in New York City earlier in the year. The album includes covers of songs such as Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" and Nine Inch Nails "Closer."[1]

The singer was asked to do MTV Unplugged, despite only having released only one album, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite. Maxwell's episode of MTV Unplugged first aired on the network on July 22, 1997".[2]

The live version of "Whenever Wherever Whatever" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards, but it lost to "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John.