2004 studio album by Norah Jones
Feels like Home is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter
Norah Jones , released on February 10, 2004, through
Blue Note Records . It serves as the follow-up to Jones' 2002 breakthrough album,
Come Away with Me .
At the
47th Annual Grammy Awards the album was nominated for
Best Pop Vocal Album . "
Sunrise ", the album's
lead single , won the
Grammy Award for
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance . "Creepin' In", featuring
Dolly Parton , was also nominated for a Grammy, in the category of
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals .
Critical reception
Feels like Home received generally positive reviews from
music critics . At
Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an
average score of 74 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 19 reviews.
[2]
Writing for
Yahoo! Music , Ken Micallef gave the album a favorable review and said, "Recalling Come Away With Me only for Jones's sultry voice, the album has its share of pleasant throwaways, but those are balanced by a handful of starkly beautiful and excellently arranged songs."
[13]
The A.V. Club 's Keith Phipps also gave it a favorable review and stated that the album "should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear [Jones] reach for more."
[14]
E! Online gave it a B+ and said, "Instead of making any stupid concessions to her sudden celebrity... the Home girl plays it cool, carrying on with the same smooth vibes that made her a star."
[2]
Spin also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than Come Away --less piano bar, more honkey-tonk."
[2]
Mojo gave it four stars out of five and said the album was "similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art."
[2]
The Village Voice gave the album a positive review and stated, "If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured."
[15]
Blender gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its mood was "more or less the same, if slight friskier."
[2]
Other reviews are average, mixed or negative:
Uncut gave the album three stars out of five and stated that, "Yes, it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic."
[16]
The Austin Chronicle gave it two stars out of five and said, "Material is everything to a chanteuse, and in contrast to Come Away With Me , the problem here is that Jones wrote/co-wrote almost half of the Home ' s 13 tracks."
[17]
The Guardian only gave it one star out of five and said that the album was "so inoffensive you have trouble remembering whether you put it on."
[18]
Commercial performance
Feels like Home sold 1,022,000 copies in its
first week of release in the U.S.
[19] It sold 395,000 copies in its second week
[20] and spent its first six weeks of release atop the
Billboard 200 .
[21] It was the second best-selling album of 2004 in the U.S., selling 3,842,920 copies.
[22] It stands as the tenth largest first-week sales for a female artist, behind
Adele 's
25 ,
Taylor Swift ’s
1989 (Taylor’s Version) and
Midnights ,
Britney Spears '
Oops...! I Did It Again ,
Taylor Swift 's
1989 ,
Reputation ,
Red , and
Speak Now , and
Lady Gaga 's
Born This Way . In the
Netherlands , it was the year's best-selling album and the twenty-fourth best-selling album of the
2000s .[
citation needed ]
Track listing
Writing credits from AllMusic.
[23]
Deluxe Edition (CD and DVD)
[24]
DVD Contents
"In the Morning" (live)
"She" (live)
"Long Way Home" (live)
"Creepin' In" (live)
"Sunrise" (music video)
"What Am I to You?" (music video)
Interview with Norah
Personnel
Musicians
Norah Jones – vocals, piano (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13) ,
Wurlitzer electronic piano (2, 5, 10) ,
pump organ (9)
Garth Hudson –
Hammond organ (2) , accordion (6)
Rob Burger – pump organ (3, 7)
Kevin Breit – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12) ,
resonator guitar (5, 8–10) , banjolin (1) , electric guitar and foot tapping (10) , backup vocal (6)
Jesse Harris – acoustic guitar (3, 4)
Adam R. Levy – electric guitar (6, 8, 10, 11) , acoustic guitar (5) , backup vocal (1, 6, 7)
Tony Scherr – electric guitar (2)
Lee Alexander – acoustic bass (1–3, 5–12) , electric bass (5) ,
lap steel (12)
Brian Blade – drums (12)
Andrew Borger – drums (5, 6, 8, 10) ,
slit drum (1) , box (3, 11) , snare drum (7)
Levon Helm – drums (2)
Dolly Parton – vocal (7)
Daru Oda – backup vocals (1, 2, 5–8, 10–12) , flutes (11)
Jane Scarpantoni – cello (4)
David Gold – viola (4)
Arif Mardin – string arrangement (4)
Technical
Producers: Arif Mardin, Norah Jones
Recording and mixing engineer: Jay Newland
Assistant engineers: Matthew Cullen, Dick Kondas, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura
Mastering:
Gene Paul
Mastering assistant: Jamie Polaski
A&R: Eliott Wolf
A&R Assistant: Danny Markowitz
Product manager: Zach Hochkeppel
Creative director: Gordon Jee
Design production assistant: Burton Yount
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications and sales
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Recording Industry Association of Japan . Select 2004年10月 on the drop-down menu
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Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas . Type Norah Jones in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Feels like Home in the box under the TÍTULO column heading .
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