Feels Like Home | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Linda Ronstadt |
Cover: | Feels Like Home Linda Ronstadt.jpg |
Released: | March 14, 1995 |
Recorded: | 1994 |
Genre: | Country rock |
Length: | 39:26 |
Label: | Elektra |
Producer: | George Massenburg, Linda Ronstadt |
Prev Title: | Winter Light |
Prev Year: | 1993 |
Next Title: | Dedicated to the One I Love |
Next Year: | 1996 |
Feels Like Home is a studio album by American singer 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 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 remixed and 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.
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."
Studios
Date | Format | Label | Ref. | |
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North America | March 14, 1995 | Elektra Records | [1] | |