It may be far too obvious to even mention that Norah Jones' follow-up to her 18-million-unit-selling, eight-Grammy-winning, genre-bending, super-smash album Come Away With Me has perhaps a bit too much to live up to. But that's probably the biggest conundrum for Jones: having to follow up the phenomenal success of an album that was never designed to be so hugely popular in the first place. Come Away With Me was a little album by an unknown pianist/vocalist who attempted to mix jazz, country, and folk in an acoustic setting -- who knew? Feels Like Home could be seen as "Come Away With Me Again" if not for that fact that it's actually better. Smartly following the template forged by Jones and producer Arif Mardin, there is the intimate single "Sunrise," some reworked cover tunes, some interesting originals, and one ostensible jazz standard. These are all good things, for also like its predecessor, Feels Like Home is a soft and amiable album that frames Jones' soft-focus Aretha Franklin voice with a group of songs that are as classy as they are quiet. Granted, not unlike the dippy albeit catchy hit "Don't Know Why," they often portend deep thoughts but come off in the end more like heartfelt daydreams. Of course, Jones could sing the phone book and make it sound deep, and that's what's going to keep listeners coming back. What's surprising here are the bluesy, more jaunty songs that really dig into the country stylings only hinted at on Come Away With Me. To these ends, the infectious shuffle of "What Am I to You?" finds Jones truly coming into her own as a blues singer as well as a writer. Her voice has developed a spine-tingling breathy scratch that pulls on your ear as she rises to the chorus. Similarly, "Toes" and "Carnival Town" -- co-written by bassist Lee Alexander and Jones -- are pure '70s singer/songwriting that call to mind a mix of Rickie Lee Jones and k.d. lang. Throw in covers of Tom Waits and Townes Van Zandt along with Duke Ellington's "Melancholia," retitled here "Don't Miss You at All" and featuring lyrics by Jones, and you've got an album so blessed with superb songwriting that Jones' vocals almost push the line into too much of a good thing. Thankfully, there is also a rawness and organic soulfulness in the production that's refreshing. No digital pitch correction was employed in the studio and you can sometimes catch Jones hitting an endearingly sour note. She also seems to be making good on her stated desire to remain a part of a band. Most all of her sidemen, who've worked with the likes of Tom Waits and Cassandra Wilson, get writing credits. It's a "beauty and the beast" style partnership that harks back to the best Brill Building-style intentions and makes for a quietly experimental and well-balanced album.
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Feels Like Home is the second album by jazz/pop songwriter Norah Jones, released in 2004. It sold a million copies in the first week of its U.S. release, the first album to do so since Eminem's The Eminem Show (2002) and it was the second best-selling album of 2004, with about 4 million copies sold in U.S. It is also holds the record for the sixth largest first week sales for a woman, just behind Britney Spears' Oops...! I Did It Again, Taylor Swift's 1989 and Red, Lady Gaga's Born This Way, and Swift's album Speak Now, respectively. It sold approximately 1,000,000 copies on its first week in the US. 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. Jones won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for ("Sunrise"), and was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album (Feels Like Home), and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for "Creepin' In" with Dolly Parton. To support the album her record label recorded a commercial to be in televised in the U.S. and worldwide. In the commercial she dubs the three singles from the album. This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. The album so far has a score of 74 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". Yahoo! Music gave it 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 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." 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." Spin also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk." 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." 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." 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." 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." 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. 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." No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Sunrise" Norah Jones, Lee Alexander 3:20 2. "What Am I to You?" Norah Jones 3:29 3. "Those Sweet Words" Lee Alexander, Richard Julian 3:22 4. "Carnival Town" Norah Jones, Lee 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) Lee Alexander 3:03 8. "Toes" Norah Jones, Lee 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" Norah Jones, Lee Alexander, Richard Julian 3:51 13. "Don't Miss You at All" Norah Jones, Duke Ellington 3:06 "Sleepless Nights" (Deluxe Edition bonus track) "Moon Song" (Deluxe Edition bonus track) "I Turned Your Picture To The Wall" (Deluxe Edition bonus track) "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) 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) 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 "Feels Like Home" debuted with first week sales of 1.047 million in US. It sold 395,000 copies in its second week, and eventually spent 6 weeks atop the Billboard 200, spending 71 weeks on the chart in all. Chart (2004) Peak position Australian Albums Chart 2 Austrian Albums Chart 1 Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart 1 Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart 1 Canadian Albums Chart 1 Danish Albums Chart 1 Dutch Albums Chart 1 European Top 100 Albums 1 Finnish Albums Chart 2 French Albums Chart 1 German Albums Chart 1 Greek Albums Chart 3 Irish Albums Chart 1 Italian Albums Chart 1 Japanese Albums Chart 5 New Zealand Albums Chart 1 Norwegian Albums Chart 1 Polish Albums Chart 1 Portuguese Albums Chart 1 Spanish Albums Chart 3 Swedish Albums Chart 1 Swiss Albums Chart 1 UK Albums Chart 1 US Billboard 200 1 | style="width:50%; text-align:left; vertical-align:top;" | Chart (2000–2009) Position US Billboard 200 58 Region Certification Sales/shipments Australia (ARIA) 3× Platinum 210,000^ Austria (IFPI Austria) 3× Platinum 90,000x Belgium (BEA) 2× Platinum 100,000* Brazil (ABPD) Gold 50,000* Canada (Music Canada) 4× Platinum 400,000^ Denmark (IFPI Denmark) Gold 20,000^ Finland (Musiikkituottajat) Gold 16,000 France (SNEP) 2× Platinum 802,000* Germany (BVMI) 3× Platinum 600,000^ Japan (RIAJ) Platinum 250,000^ Mexico (AMPROFON) Gold 50,000^ Netherlands (NVPI) Platinum 80,000^ New Zealand (RMNZ) 3× Platinum 45,000^ Sweden (GLF) Platinum 60,000^ Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) 3× Platinum 120,000x United Kingdom (BPI) 3× Platinum 993,632 (in 2004)^ United States (RIAA) 4× Platinum 4,632,000^ Summaries Europe (IFPI) 4× Platinum 4,000,000* *sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone xunspecified figures based on certification alone |} Feels Like Home at Discogs Feels Like Home at Metacritic Album Review at IGN Album Review at The New Yorker 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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