Feels Like Home (Linda Ronstadt album)
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| Studio album by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| Released | March 14, 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Country rock | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Producer | George Massenburg, Linda Ronstadt | |||
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Feels Like Home is an out of print studio album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt released in 1995. It reached #75 and lasted 12 weeks on the Billboard album chart. It received excellent critical reviews upon release. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the disc sold precisely 188,815 copies in the United States. This album is now out of print physically, although it is available digitally and five of its tracks were subsequently included on Trio II.
A double sided single, Tom Petty's "The Waiting" and "Walk On", was released simultaneously with the album. "Walk On" returned Linda to the Billboard Country Singles chart for the first time as a solo artist (not counting the late 1980s 'Trio' hits) since 1983. The song was previously recorded by Matraca Berg on her 1990 debut album Lying to the Moon.
Adult Contemporary radio picked up the album track "The Blue Train" which reached 31 on that chart and lasted for ten weeks in the chart's Top 40. Album track "Feels Like Home" was incorporated into Randy Newman's musical Randy Newman's Faust, which opened later in 1995, and has been subsequently covered by a number of artists.
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Chicago Tribune |  [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A−[3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
Music critic Jose Promis called the album a "return to her country-rock roots" in his Allmusic review, writing: "… the final result is an album that is top-quality but a little bland. Ronstadt's voice is nothing short of stellar, and the songs are fine, but there is a certain immediacy that is lacking in this album, especially toward the end, when it just seems to drift... this is top-quality material, but one can't help but pine for the punch and perfect production of her previous pop packages."[1]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "The Waiting" | Tom Petty | 3:58 |
| 2. | "Walk On" | Matraca Berg, Ronnie Samoset | 2:58 |
| 3. | "High Sierra" | Harley Allen | 4:24 |
| 4. | "After the Gold Rush" | Neil Young | 3:33 |
| 5. | "The Blue Train" | Jennifer Kimball, Tom Kimmel | 5:04 |
| 6. | "Feels Like Home" | Randy Newman | 4:50 |
| 7. | "Teardrops Will Fall" | Eddie Deane | 3:08 |
| 8. | "Morning Blues" | Traditional | 3:57 |
| 9. | "Women Cross the River" | David Olney | 3:33 |
| 10. | "Lover's Return" | A.P. Carter | 4:01 |
Personnel
- Linda Ronstadt – vocals
- Larry Atamanuik – drums
- Mike Auldridge – dobro
- Robbie Buchanan – keyboards, Hammond organ, piano, synthesizer strings
- Valerie Carter – vocals
- Mark Casstevens – guitar
- Craig Fuller – background vocals
- Emmylou Harris – background vocals
- John Ronstadt – background vocals
- John Starling – background vocals
- Herb Pedersen – background vocals
- Claire Lynch – background vocals
- Larry Epstein – bass
- Bob Glaub – bass
- Jeff Neighbor – bass
- Leland Sklar – bass
- David Grisman – mandolin
- Roy M. "Junior" Husky – bass
- Carl Jackson – guitar, background vocals
- Booker T. Jones – Hammond organ
- Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar
- Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
- Alison Krauss – fiddle
- Russ Kunkel – drums
- David Lindley – autoharp
- Dean Parks – guitar, mandolin, ukulele
- Roy Rogers – National Steel guitar
- Jeremy Cohen – violin
- Joseph Edelberg – violin
- Ronald Erickson – violin
- Stuart Canin – violin
- Jenny Bifano – violin
- James Shallenberger – violin
- Rebecca Sebring – viola
- Katherine Johnk – viola
- James Hurley – viola
- Larry Granger – cello
- David Kadarauch – cello
- Thalia Moore – cello
- Teressa Adams – cello
Production notes:
- George Massenburg – producer, engineer, mixing
- Linda Ronstadt – producer, mixing, arrangements
- Nathaniel Kunkel – engineer
- Sean O'Dwyer – assistant engineer
- Gil Morales – assistant engineer
- Ron Lewter – mastering
- Doug Sax – mastering
- Gavin Lurssen – mastering
- John Kosh – art direction, design
- Robert Blakeman – photography
