Feels like Home is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released on February 10, 2004, through Blue Note Records. Featuring an alternative country sound, it serves as the follow-up to her 2002 breakthrough album, Come Away with Me. Jones co-wrote five of its songs and worked with Arif Mardin, as the main producer.

The album was received with generally positive reviews from critics, who compared it to her debut. It was also a commercial success, selling over a million copies in its first week and topping the Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks, becoming the second-best selling album of 2004. It has sold over 12 million copies worldwide.

At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005, the album received three nominations, Best Pop Vocal Album, while "Sunrise", the album's lead single, won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and "Creepin' In" Dolly Parton, was nominated for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

Critical reception

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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. 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." 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." 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." 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 Homes 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."

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 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.

Track listing

Writing credits from AllMusic.

Deluxe Edition (CD and DVD)

DVD Contents

  1. "In the Morning" (live)
  2. "She" (live)
  3. "Long Way Home" (live)
  4. "Creepin' In" (live)
  5. "Sunrise" (music video)
  6. "What Am I to You?" (music video)
  7. Interview with Norah

Personnel

Musicians

  • Norah Jones – vocals, piano <small>(1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13)</small>, Wurlitzer electronic piano <small>(2, 5, 10)</small>, pump organ <small>(9)</small>
  • Garth Hudson – Hammond organ <small>(2)</small>, accordion <small>(6)</small>
  • Rob Burger – pump organ <small>(3, 7)</small>
  • Kevin Breit – acoustic guitar <small>(1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12)</small>, resonator guitar <small>(5, 8–10)</small>, banjolin <small>(1)</small>, electric guitar and foot tapping <small>(10)</small>, backup vocal <small>(6)</small>
  • Jesse Harris – acoustic guitar <small>(3, 4)</small>
  • Adam R. Levy – electric guitar <small>(6, 8, 10, 11)</small>, acoustic guitar <small>(5)</small>, backup vocal <small>(1, 6, 7)</small>
  • Tony Scherr – electric guitar <small>(2)</small>
  • Lee Alexander – acoustic bass <small>(1–3, 5–12)</small>, electric bass <small>(5)</small>, lap steel <small>(12)</small>
  • Brian Blade – drums <small>(12)</small>
  • Andrew Borger – drums <small>(5, 6, 8, 10)</small>, slit drum <small>(1)</small>, box <small>(3, 11)</small>, snare drum <small>(7)</small>
  • Levon Helm – drums <small>(2)</small>
  • Dolly Parton – vocal <small>(7)</small>
  • Daru Oda – backup vocals <small>(1, 2, 5–8, 10–12)</small>, flutes <small>(11)</small>
  • Jane Scarpantoni – cello <small>(4)</small>
  • David Gold – viola <small>(4)</small>
  • Arif Mardin – string arrangement <small>(4)</small>

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

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! scope="row"| Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)

| 8

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| 1

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| 1

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| 5

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! scope="row"| Singaporean Albums (RIAS)

| 8

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! scope="row"| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)

| 3

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! scope="row"| Swedish Jazz Albums (Sverigetopplistan)

| 1

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! scope="row"|Taiwanese Albums (Five Music)

| 11

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Year-end charts

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! scope="row"| Argentine Albums (CAPIF)

| 12

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! scope="row"| Australian Albums (ARIA)

| 10

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! scope="row"| Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)

| 2

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! scope="row"| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)

| 1

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! scope="row"| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

| 2

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! scope="row"| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)

| 4

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!scope="row"|Danish Albums (Hitlisten)

| 2

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! scope="row"| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)

| 1

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! scope="row"| European Albums (Billboard)

| 1

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! scope="row"| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)

| 70

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! scope="row"| French Albums (SNEP)

| 5

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! scope="row"| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)

| 2

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! scope="row"| Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)

| 89

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! scope="row"| Irish Albums (IRMA)

| 20

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! scope="row"| Italian Albums (FIMI)

| 13

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! scope="row"| Japanese Albums (Oricon)

| 55

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! scope="row"| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)

| 3

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!scope="row"|Portuguese Albums (AFP)

| 7

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! scope="row"| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)

| 45

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! scope="row"| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)

| 4

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!scope="row"|Swedish Albums & Compilations (Sverigetopplistan)

|5

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! scope="row"| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)

| 2

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! scope="row"| UK Albums (OCC)

| 8

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! scope="row"| US Billboard 200

| 5

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! scope="row"| Worldwide Albums (IFPI)

| 2

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! scope="col"| Chart (2005)

! scope="col"| Position

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! scope="row"| Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)

| 4

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! scope="row"| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

| 40

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! scope="row"| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)

| 33

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!scope="row"|French Albums (SNEP)

|style="text-align:center;"|189

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! scope="row"| US Billboard 200

| 126

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! scope="col"| Chart (2006)

! scope="col"| Position

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! scope="row"| Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)

| 12

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!scope="row"|Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

| 2

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!scope="row"|Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)

| 9

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! scope="col"| Chart (2007)

! scope="col"| Position

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!scope="row"|Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

| 3

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!scope="row"|Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)

| 9

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! scope="col"| Chart (2008)

! scope="col"| Position

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!scope="row"|Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

| 22

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!scope="row"|Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)

| 28

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Decade-end charts

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! scope="row"| US Billboard 200

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Certifications and sales

References

  • Feels Like Home at Discogs
  • Album Review at IGN
  • Album Review at The New Yorker