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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Bna Entertainment
Salesrank: 160233
Released: September 13, 2005 |
| Our Price: $0.49 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Coming Home Track Listing:
1. You're Like Comin' Home
2. Doghouse
3. I Am a Man
4. I'll Die Tryin'
5. Wild
6. Noise
7. Little Town
8. I Never Needed You
9. What's Wrong with That
10. Two Bottles of Beer
11. I Just Want to Love You
12. When I Go Home Again
Editorial Review:
Lonestar's new album, Coming Home, finds them digging deep for new dimensions in their music, cutting loose with a new attitude of fun and pushing their performances into fresh new country-rockin' territory. Hooking up with a hot new producer, Justin Neibank, the band enthusiastically discovered a new level of musical creativity that spurred them forward to edgier, more passionate and more energized performances than they'd ever given in the studio before.
Description of Coming Home:
Lonestar lead singer Richie McDonald is the Conway Twitty of his generation. He knows what women want--as lovers, wives, and mothers. And since he's also the band's principal songwriter, he means to give it to them. That--and the major success of 1999's "Amazed"--is how Lonestar became the sappiest band in country-pop, building a repertoire of over-the-top ballads filled with romantic fantasies (the slowhand husband who takes his time making love, the devoted father who wilts at the sight of a sippy cup), all shot straight to the heart on the arrow of McDonald's emotional tenor. Though Coming Home, the group's eighth album, features a new producer (Justin Niebank), the formula hasn't really changed. "I Am a Man," "I'll Die Tryin'," "I Never Needed You," and "I Just Want to Love You" all trade in fevered desire of one sort or another, even if Sara Evans couldn't possibly sound more disinterested in McDonald on "I Never Needed You." But Niebank also tries to break it up a bit, although he doesn't push the band to get particularly original, or take the tempo out of the mid-zone. "You're Like Comin' Home" is really less about finding refuge in a woman's arms than about capturing Keith Urban's catchy and sophisticated brand of ear candy, while "What's Wrong With That," another declaration of fatherly bliss, sounds suspiciously like a rewrite of Tim McGraw's "Something Like That." "Little Town" and "Two Bottles of Beer" mine two current songwriting stereotypes--the virtues of small-town America, and the tiresome Jimmy Buffett fixation. "Wild," a contrived song about a curvaceous babe who saves it all for her man, feeds into typical male fantasies, not female. And "When I Go Home Again" gets down with the hoedown sound, just to remind you that this is supposed to be country music. Lonestar will never be raw and unvarnished in the style of so many other singer-songwriters from Texas. But what's missing is a song that dares to not play it safe, or even one that sounds as if it hadn't been written by committee. If Lonestar ever wants to bring things back to reality, the follow up to Coming Home will be Moving Out. Remember when hillbillies sang the blues? --Alanna Nash
Coming Home Reviews:
Solid release...they brought it home this time 
2007-01-13 - I had pretty much given up on Lonestar after seeing the direction they were trying to take following their smash hit "Amazed". This song became a template they tried to follow up with "I'm Already There", which happened to be a great track in itself. But the ones they released after that in the hopes of expanding their fan base were songs that were almost unbearable to listen to (take note: Let's Be Us Again and My Front Porch Looking In).
It was not until I finished previewing this album (in some site) that I decided to give em another chance and boy did they hit HOME on this as they went back to basics by making this a country album...well, almost. Though not as country as their first ever album, I got the same refreshing feeling I had when I listened to LeAnne Rimes' "This Woman", Faith Hill's "Fireflies" and Trisha's "Jasper County"; the feeling that country is cool again.
Given that this album still contains the power ballads that lean towards the pop/rock side (if it were not for Richie's voice), it also contains treasures like the opening cut "You're Like Comin' Home" and the no-place-like-home themed "Little Town".
Overall, this album is solid and worth buying...way better than "Let's Be Us Again" (darn I really don't like that album).
one of my favorites 
2007-01-11 - This is a good CD it is full of heartfelt and feelgood songs
Typical Lonestar 
2006-03-19 - It's not that this is a "bad" project by itself. It is actually better than their last 2 projects. I just find that "Lonely Grill" is the standard Lonestar has to hold themselves up to, and once again it was not met. There are of course the romantic ballads, but nothing as well done as "Amazed". It strikes me as strange that the first 2 singles off this CD were originally songs done by Emerson Drive (on their "What If" CD). In my opinion, Lonestar does not measure up on these songs. They just kind of drag in comparison to the fire and passion Emerson Drive put into it. But I suppose if you haven't heard the previoius versions these songs would be capable of standing on their own, since they both are good songs in their own right. I wish Lonestar better luck on their next CD.
Lonestar's greatest album!!!
2005-12-30 - Lonestar, coming home, is one of their greatest albums! The greatest songs on the album are: "You're Like Comin' Home", and "What's Wrong With That". I have always been a Lonestar fan, and I always collect their newest albums through the years. Lonestar's band and voices's were incredibly great on this album! Once again they had another sucsessful CD! So if you're looking for a great CD, buy Lonestar, Coming Home!
Coming Home IS Like Coming Home
2005-10-17 - I always enjoy Lonestar with their down-home morals and uplifting songs. I've never missed a concert whenever they are within driving distance.
Just watching them, one can see how much they enjoy thier work. Listening to them, one can tell how much they love their families. Where else can you find that combination, in such a dynamic group?
This Cd is the best ever. Delivering, once again, the very best of Lonestar!
They are a group for All ages, which is evident when you see the crowds at their concerts.
Lonestar is what True Entertainers are all about.
Not since Neil Diamond started have we seen a group This Good!
