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Feels like Home
Studio album by Norah Jones
Released	February 10, 2004
Recorded	2003–2004
Studio	Allaire, Shokan, New York Avatar, New York City Sear Sound, New York City Sorcerer Sound, New York City
Genre	Alternative country
Length	46:26
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Arif Mardin Norah Jones
Norah Jones chronology
New York City (2003) Feels like Home (2004) New York City - The Remix Album (2004)
Norah Jones studio album chronology
Come Away with Me (2002) Feels Like Home (2004) Not Too Late (2007)
Singles from Feels Like Home
"Sunrise" Released: January 12, 2004 "What Am I to You?" Released: May 20, 2004 "Creepin' In" Released: June 14, 2004 "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
Source	Rating
Metacritic	74/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Entertainment Weekly	B
Los Angeles Times
PopMatters
Robert Christgau
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The New York Times	(mixed)
USA Today
Yahoo! Music UK

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.

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." 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 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."

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 (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

Certifications and sales

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External links

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

• 2004 albums
• Norah Jones albums
• Albums produced by Arif Mardin
• Blue Note Records albums
• Country albums by American artists