Coming Home

09/12/2006 | Island 

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All Music Guide Review

Lionel Richie's eighth studio album as a solo artist is led by "I Call It Love," a lightly buoyant and bittersweet single produced by Swedish hitmakers Stargate, the same team that helped boost Ne-Yo's In My Own Words. It's an ideal match, one that should've been made more than once. Too much of Coming Home is merely pleasant -- particularly the adult contemporary fare, with the exception of "I Love You" -- or too conscious of remaining with the times. While the likes of "Why" and "Up All Night" involved Richie's songwriting in some capacity, just about any twentysomething vocalist could be fronting them; the same goes for the Jermaine Dupri-produced "What You Are." The stab at emotionally cleansing reggae of the Bob Marley variety, "Stand Down," comes up short as well. That said, at least half the album should satisfy Richie's longtime followers. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • I Call It Love
  • 3:18

  • 2
  • Sweet Vacation
  • 3:54

  • 3
  • Why
  • 4:00

  • 4
  • What You Are
  • 4:12

  • 5
  • Up All Night
  • 3:35

  • 6
  • I'm Coming Home
  • 4:17

  • 7
  • All Around the World
  • 3:33

  • 8
  • Out of My Head
  • 3:14

  • 9
  • Reason to Believe
  • 4:45

  • 10
  • Stand Down
  • 4:01

  • 11
  • I Love You
  • 4:12

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    Credits

    • Tony Reyes
    • Guitar (Acoustic), Keyboards, Guitar (Electric), Slide Guitar, Bass
    • Graham Marsh
    • Guitar (Electric), Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
    • Dallas Austin
    • Percussion, Fender Rhodes, Producer, Keyboards, Drums


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