Feels Like Home (Linda Ronstadt album) explained

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.

Reception

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."

Personnel

Production

Studios

Release history

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DateFormatLabelRef.
North AmericaMarch 14, 1995Elektra Records[1]

Notes and References

  1. Ronstadt . Linda . Feels Like Home (Liner Notes) . . March 14, 1995 . 61703-4 (Cassette); 61703-2 (CD).