Feels Like Home (Norah Jones album)

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Feels Like Home
Studio album by Norah Jones
Released February 10, 2004
Recorded 2003-2004
Genre Jazz, Country
Length 46:26
Label Blue Note
Producer Norah Jones, Arif Mardin
Norah Jones chronology
Come Away with Me
(2002)		 Feels Like Home
(2004)		 Not Too Late
(2007)
Singles from Feels Like Home
  1. "Sunrise"
    Released: February 2004
  2. "What Am I to You?"
    Released: June 2004
  3. "Those Sweet Words"
    Released: February 2005

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

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB[3]
Los Angeles Times[4]
New York Times(mixed)[5]
PopMatters[6]
Q[7]
Robert Christgau[8]
Rolling Stone[9]
USA Today[10]
Yahoo! Music UK[11]

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.[1]

Yahoo! Music 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."[12] The A.V. Club 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."[13] 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."[1] Spin also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk."[1] 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."[1] 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."[14] 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."[1]

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."[15] 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.[16] 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."[17]

Track listing

Writing credits source: BMI.[18]

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Sunrise"  Norah Jones, Lee Alexander 3:20
2. "What Am I to You?"  Jones 3:29
3. "Those Sweet Words"  Alexander, Richard Julian 3:22
4. "Carnival Town"  Jones, Alexander 3:12
5. "In the Morning"  Adam Levy 4:07
6. "Be Here to Love Me"  Townes Van Zandt 3:28
7. "Creepin' In" (featuring Dolly Parton)Alexander 3:03
8. "Toes"  Jones, Alexander 3:46
9. "Humble Me"  Kevin Breit 4:36
10. "Above Ground"  Andrew Borger, Daru Oda 3:43
11. "The Long Way Home"  Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits 3:13
12. "The Prettiest Thing"  Jones, Alexander, Julian 3:51
13. "Don't Miss You at All"  Jones, Duke Ellington 3:06
Total length:
 46:26

Deluxe Edition (CD and DVD)

  1. "Sleepless Nights" (Deluxe Edition bonus disc)
  2. "Moon Song" (Deluxe Edition bonus disc)
  3. "I Turned Your Picture to the Wall" (Deluxe Edition bonus disc)
  4. "In the Morning" (live) (DVD)
  5. "She" (live) (DVD)
  6. "Long Way Home" (live) (DVD)
  7. "Creepin' In" (live) (DVD)
  8. "Sunrise" (music video) (DVD)
  9. "What Am I to You?" (music video) (DVD)
  10. Interview with Norah (DVD)

Personnel

Musicians
  • Norah Jones - vocals, piano (1,3,4,6,8,12,13), Wurlitzer electric piano (2,5,10), pump organ (9)
  • Lee Alexander - bass (1-3, 6-12), acoustic bass (5), 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)
  • Kevin Breit - acoustic guitar (1,3,6,7,11,12), resonator guitar (5,8-10), electric guitar (10), banjolin (1), foot tapping (10), backup vocal (6)
  • Rob Burger - pump organ (3,7)
  • David Gold - viola (4)
  • Garth Hudson - Hammond organ (2), accordion (6)
  • Adam R. Levy - electric guitar (6,8,10,11), acoustic guitar (5), backup vocal (1,6,7)
  • Daru Oda - backup vocals (1,2,5-8,10-12), flutes (11)
  • Dolly Parton - vocal (7)
  • Jane Scarpantoni- cello (4)
  • Tony Scherr- electric guitar (2)
  • Arif Mardin - string arrangement (4)
  • Jesse Harris - acoustic guitar (3,4)
Technical personnel
  • Producers: Norah Jones, Arif Mardin
  • Engineer: Jay Newland
  • Assistant engineers: Matthew Cullen, Dick Kondas, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura
  • Mixing: Jay Newland
  • Mastering: Gene Paul
  • A&R: Eliott Wolf
  • Assistant: Jamie Polaski
  • String arrangements: Arif Mardin
  • Product manager: Zach Hochkeppel
  • Creative director: Gordon Jee
  • Design production assistant: Burton Yount

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 seventh largest first-week sales for a woman, behind Adele's 25, Britney Spears' Oops...! I Did It Again, Taylor Swift's 1989, 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. Worldwide, this album has shipped over 12 million copies.[23]

Charts

Weekly

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[24] 2
Austrian Albums Chart[24] 1
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart[24] 1
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart[24] 1
Canadian Albums Chart[25] 1
Danish Albums Chart[24] 1
Dutch Albums Chart[24] 1
European Top 100 Albums[26] 1
Finnish Albums Chart[24] 2
French Albums Chart[24] 1
German Albums Chart[25] 1
Greek Albums Chart[27] 3
Irish Albums Chart [25] 1
Italian Albums Chart[24] 1
Japanese Albums Chart[28] 5
New Zealand Albums Chart[24] 1
Norwegian Albums Chart[24] 1
Polish Albums Chart[25] 1
Portuguese Albums Chart[24] 1
Spanish Albums Chart[29] 3
Swedish Albums Chart[24] 1
Swiss Albums Chart[24] 1
UK Albums Chart[25] 1
US Billboard 200[25] 1

End of decade charts

Chart (2000–2009) Position
US Billboard 200[30] 58

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[31] 3× Platinum 210,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[32] 3× Platinum 90,000*
Belgium (BEA)[33] 2× Platinum 100,000*
Brazil (ABPD)[34] Gold 50,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[35] 4× Platinum 400,000^
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[36] Gold 20,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[37] Gold 16,000[38][37]
France (SNEP)[39] 2× Platinum 802,000[40]*
Germany (BVMI)[41] 3× Platinum 600,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[42] Platinum 250,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[43] Gold 50,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[44] Platinum 80,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[45] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Sweden (GLF)[46] Platinum 60,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[47] 3× Platinum 120,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[48] 3× Platinum 993,632 (in 2004)[49]^
United States (RIAA)[50] 4× Platinum 4,632,000[51]^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[52] 4× Platinum 4,000,000*

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Reviews for Feels Like Home by Norah Jones". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Matt Collar. "Feels Like Home – Norah Jones". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Feels Like Home - EW.com". Entertainment Weekly's EW.com.
  4. ↑ "She's sneaking up on us again". latimes.
  5. ↑ New York Times review
  6. ↑ "Norah Jones". PopMatters.
  7. ↑ "Norah Jones - Feels Like Home CD". cduniverse.com.
  8. ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: norah jones". robertchristgau.com.
  9. ↑ "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  10. ↑ "USATODAY.com - Jones' 'Feels Like Home' also sounds like home: Familiar". usatoday.com.
  11. ↑ "LAUNCH, Music on Yahoo! - Norah Jones - Feels Like Home". yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2004.
  12. ↑ "Yahoo! LAUNCH - Album Review: Feels Like Home". yahoo.com.
  13. ↑ "Review: Norah Jones: Feels Like Home · Music Review · The A.V. Club". avclub.com.
  14. ↑ Tom Smucker. "The Review of Norah". Village Voice.
  15. ↑ "Norah Jones - Feels Like Home". Uncut: 99. March 2004. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  16. ↑ "Review: Norah Jones - Music - The Austin Chronicle". austinchronicle.com.
  17. ↑ Alexis Petridis. "CD: Norah Jones, Feels Like Home". the Guardian.
  18. ↑ BMI Repertoire Search for Norah Jones
  19. ↑ Caulfield, Keith (November 3, 2010). "Taylor Swift Sells Over 1 Million in Record Billboard 200 Debut". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Norah Still Tops On Billboard 200". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. February 25, 2004. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  21. ↑ Trust, Gary (January 7, 2010). "Chart Beat Thursday: Avett Brothers, Susan Boyle, Lil Wayne". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Confessions is the top-selling album of 2004, a year in which album sales increased.". Tampa Bay Times. Times Publishing Company. January 7, 2005. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
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  31. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  32. ↑ "Austrian album certifications – Norah Jones – Feels Like Home" (in German). IFPI Austria. Enter Norah Jones in the field Interpret. Enter Feels Like Home in the field Titel. Select album in the field Format. Click Suchen
  33. ↑ "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – 2004". Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
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  35. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Norah Jones – Feels Like Home". Music Canada.
  36. ↑ "Danish album certifications – Norah Jones – Feels Like Home". IFPI Denmark. Click on næste to go to page if certification from official website
  37. 1 2 "Norah Jones" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.
  38. ↑ "Musiikkituottajat - Tilastot - Kulta- ja platinalevyt". ifpi.fi.
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  40. ↑ "Charts français". free.fr.
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  43. ↑ "Certificaciones – Norah Jones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas.
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External links

Preceded by
When the Sun Goes Down
by Kenny Chesney		 Billboard 200 number-one album
February 22, 2004 - April 3, 2004 		Succeeded by
Confessions by Usher
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