Feels like Home (Sheryl Crow album)

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Feels like Home
Studio album by
Sheryl Crow
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2013 (2013-09-10)
Recorded2012–2013
Studio
  • Blackbird Studio (
    Ocean Way Nashville
    )
  • Big Green Barn Studio (
    Nashville
    )
GenreCountry
Length44:10
Label
Producer
Sheryl Crow chronology
100 Miles from Memphis
(2010) 		Feels like Home
(2013) 		Be Myself
(2017)
Singles from Feels like Home
  1. "Easy"
    Released: March 12, 2013
  2. "Callin' Me When I'm Lonely"
    Released: October 28, 2013
  3. "Shotgun"
    Released: June 2, 2014

Feels like Home is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter

Warner Bros. Records. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and was produced by Crow and Justin Niebank.[1] The album was ranked by Billboard as one of the ten best country albums of 2013.[2]

Background

In an interview for

Americana and lyrically to troubadour/country kinds of music, but in the tradition of old country. I couldn’t begin to understand how to make a new country record. I don’t even know what that is now. But I would love to make a straight up old country record, which would probably never get played.”[3]

Having worked with country artists such as

Grammy nomination in 2002, Crow has contributed to country music over the years.[4][5]

After releasing her last album through

CMA Awards, it was Nashville neighbor Brad Paisley the one who gave Crow the suggestion of “coming home” to the format he believed she belonged to. According to Paisley, had Crow’s early efforts been released today, they would belong to country radio.[6]

Crow was convinced, although she did have doubts about the reception her "crossover" would generate. She recalls: “I’ve seen other kind of pop-oriented people come over to the format and kinda try to capitalize on the loyalty of the country fan base, and I’m super-persnickety about it.”, but considering the directions pop/rock and country music had shifted to in the past decade, it seemed like a natural transition for Crow, whose career has already spanned 20 years.[7]

Songwriting

Writing for the album began with some helpful advice from

The Toronto Sun.[9]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Great American Country
Very favorable[18]
Music Is My Oxygen[19]
The Oakland Press[20]
Rolling Stone[21]
Roughstock[22]
The Daily Telegraph [23]

Feels like Home garnered generally positive reception from

Allmusic stated that the release "feels like standard-issue Crow", and that the album was "show biz panache, how Crow cheerfully adapts to her surroundings and gives the people what she believes they want."[11] At American Songwriter, Jim Beviglia told that "Feels Like Home goes astray only at the times when it seems like it’s too eager to court hard-core country fans", which he noted that the album has an "appropriate title", and found that "the evidence on the disc suggests that this was a natural progression for Crow’s music rather than a mercenary one."[12] In a positive review, Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe affirmed that the release "feels natural."[24]

At The Oakland Press, Gary Graff highlighted that "The change certainly fits like a proverbial glove for Crow; her own singer-songwriter sensibilities have long embraced the image-rich, storytelling conventions of country music".[20] Jason Schneider of Exclaim! noted that "The image of country music has changed a great deal as well, and while it's easy to say that Feels Like Home is Crow selling out to the new Nashville, even a cursory listen suggests the opposite: that Nashville has conformed to what Crow was doing all along."[15] In addition, Schneider told that "on the surface Feels Like Home is a makeover aimed at the parents of every Taylor Swift fan, but the essence of Crow's sound remains intact, and irresistible."[15] At Roughstock, Matt Bjorke wrote that "If Feels Like Home proves anything it's that she's genuinely making the move to Country and that's all that the gatekeepers at radio and longtime fans of the genre want out of their artists, a commitment to making great music and Feels Like Home is definitely that."[22] Rob Burkhardt at Music Is My Oxygen highlighted that the album "feels like she's come home".[19]

In the UK, the album was Album of the Week on BBC Radio 2 for the week commencing January 25, 2014.[25]

Chart performance

Feels like Home entered the

Official UK Chart and becoming the singer's seventh top twenty album.[29]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shotgun"Sheryl Crow, Chris DuBois, Kelley Lovelace, John Shanks3:13
2."Easy"Crow, DuBois, Jeff Trott4:10
3."Give It to Me" (featuring Vince Gill and Ashley Monroe)Crow, Trott3:57
4."We Oughta Be Drinkin'"Crow, DuBois, Luke Laird3:52
5."Callin' Me When I'm Lonely"Rodney Clawson, Brent Anderson3:25
6."Waterproof Mascara"Crow, DuBois, Brad Paisley3:32
7."Crazy Ain't Original"Crow, Al Anderson, Leslie Satcher3:17
8."Nobody's Business"Crow, DuBois, Lovelace3:34
9."Homesick" (featuring Zac Brown)Crow, Chris Stapleton4:05
10."Homecoming Queen"Brandy Clark, Laird, Shane McAnally3:24
11."Best of Times"Crow, Anderson, Satcher3:19
12."Stay at Home Mother"Crow, Natalie Hemby4:09
Total length:44:02
Deluxe edition bonus tracks (iTunes, Target)[30][31]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."This Is You (That Was Then)"Crow, Jon Randall, Jessi Alexander3:49
14."You're Asking the Wrong Person"Crow, DuBois, Lee Thomas Miller3:32

Personnel

  • Sheryl Crow – vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals, whistling on "We Oughta Be Drinkin'"[32]
  • Samuel Bacco – vibraphone
  • Richard Bennett – electric guitar
  • Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
  • Perry Coleman – vocals
  • J.T. Corenflos
    – electric guitar
  • Eric Darken – percussion
  • David Davidson – violin
  • Dan Dugmore – pedal steel
  • Chris Farrell – viola
  • Paul Franklin – pedal steel
  • Tania Hancheroff – background vocals
  • Tony Harrell – keyboards
  • Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
  • Wes Hightower – background vocals
  • Jim Hoke – harmonica
  • Jedd Hughes – electric guitar
  • Charlie Judge – accordion, keyboards, string arrangements
  • Anthony LaMarchina – cello
  • Ashley Monroe – background vocals
  • Greg Morrow – drums
  • Brad Paisley – slide guitar
  • Sarighani Reist – cello
  • Pamela Sixfin – violin
  • Ilya Toshinsky – dobro, mandolin
  • Jeff Trott – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel
  • Wei Tsun Chang – violin
  • Karen Winkelmann – violin
  • Glenn Worf – bass

Charts

Album

Chart (2013/2014) Peak
position
Australian Country Albums Chart (ARIA)[33] 14
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[34]
 101
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[34]
 90
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[35] 16
Dutch Albums Chart[27]
 92
French Albums Chart[36] 145
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[37] 4
Irish Albums Chart[38] 47
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[39] 63
Scottish Albums Chart[40]
 12
Swiss Albums Chart[41]
 60
UK Albums Chart (OCC)[42] 16
UK Download Chart (OCC)[43]
 30
UK Country Albums Chart (OCC)[44] 1
US Billboard 200[45] 7
US
Digital Albums (Billboard)[46]
 10
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[47] 3
US
Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[48]
 19

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country US Country Airplay US
CAN Country
[49]
2013 "Easy" 21 17 72 49
"Callin' Me When I'm Lonely" 37 26 — —
2014 "Shotgun" — 51 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Year-end charts

Chart (2013) Position
US
Country Albums (Billboard)[50]
 51

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