''Feels like Home'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter

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, released on February 10, 2004, through

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the album was nominated for

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, won the

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. "Creepin' In", featuring

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, was also nominated for a Grammy, in the category of

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Critical reception

''Feels like Home'' received generally positive reviews from

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an

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score of 74 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 19 reviews. Writing for

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, 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." 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 onesreach for more."

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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." ''

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'' also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than ''Come Away''--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk." ''

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'' 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." ''

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'' 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." ''

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'' gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its mood was "more or less the same, if slight friskier." 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." ''

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'' 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." ''

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'' 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."

Commercial performance

''Feels like Home'' sold 1,022,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. It sold 395,000 copies in its second week and spent its first six weeks of release atop the ''Billboard'' 200. It was the second best-selling album of 2004 in the U.S., selling 3,842,920 copies. It stands as the ninth largest first-week sales for a female artist, behind

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Track listing

Writing credits from AllMusic. Deluxe Edition (CD and DVD) # "Sleepless Nights" (Deluxe Edition bonus disc) # "Moon Song" (Deluxe Edition bonus disc) # "I Turned Your Picture to the Wall" (Deluxe Edition bonus disc) # "In the Morning" (live) (DVD) # "She" (live) (DVD) # "Long Way Home" (live) (DVD) # "Creepin' In" (live) (DVD) # "Sunrise" (music video) (DVD) # "What Am I to You?" (music video) (DVD) # Interview with Norah (DVD)

Personnel

Musicians *

– vocals, piano (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13),

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(2, 5, 10),

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(9) *

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–

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(2), accordion (6) * Rob Burger – pump organ (3, 7) *

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– acoustic guitar (1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12),

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(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) *

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– electric guitar (2) * Lee Alexander – acoustic bass (1–3, 5–12), electric bass (5),

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(12) *

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– drums (12) *

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– drums (5, 6, 8, 10),

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(1), box (3, 11), snare drum (7) *

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– drums (2) *

– vocal (7) * Daru Oda – backup vocals (1, 2, 5–8, 10–12), flutes (11) * Jane Scarpantoni – cello (4) * David Gold – viola (4) *

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– 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

References

External links

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