Feels_Like_Home_(Linda_Ronstadt_album)

<i>Feels Like Home</i> (Linda Ronstadt album)

Feels Like Home (Linda Ronstadt album)

1995 studio album by Linda Ronstadt


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.

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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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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

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Personnel

Production

  • George Massenburg – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Linda Ronstadt – producer, mixing
  • Gail Rosman – production coordinator
  • Nathaniel Kunkel – engineer
  • Sean O'Dwyer – assistant engineer
  • Gil Morales – assistant engineer
  • Ron Lewter – mastering
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • John Allair – piano technician
  • John Kosh – art direction, design
  • Robert Blakeman – photography
  • Greg Sudmeier – orchestra coordinator
  • Ira Koslow – management

Studios

  • Recorded at Jim Brady Recording Studios (Tucson, AZ); The Site and Skywalker Ranch (Marin County, CA); Studio F (Los Angeles, CA); Conway Studios (Hollywood, CA).
  • Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).

Release history

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References

  1. Promis, Jose F. "Fells Like Home - Linda Ronstadt". AllMusic. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
  2. Dretzka, Gary (June 1, 1995). "Linda Ronstadt Feels Like Home (Elektra)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
  3. Thigpen, David (March 17, 1995). "Feels Like Home Review". Entertainment Weekly: 88. Retrieved April 12, 2013.[permanent dead link]
  4. TS (April 8, 1995). "Long Play". NME. p. 55. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  5. Galvin, Peter (April 6, 1995). "Feels Like Home". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
  6. Ronstadt, Linda (March 14, 1995). "Feels Like Home (Liner Notes)". Elektra Records. 61703-4 (Cassette); 61703-2 (CD).

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