Friday, January 4, 2013

Top 10 Home Songs

As the new year has come around and the holiday season has finally come to a close, I can catch up with the music!  But I'd like to take some time to go through a little project I set for myself as I was counting down the days, returning to the U.S.A.  Although "home" is a relative thing nowadays and I've become a true believer of "home is where the heart is," the home where I grew up still has a very special place, especially around the holidays.  So this "home" countdown was a way for me to process my emotions of returning the place where I grew up, where my parents still live, and also explore some tunes I hadn't listened to in a while and find some new songs along the way!  Ten songs was pretty hard to whittle down out of so many, but my main goal was to have the word "home" somewhere in the the title of the song.  Here's what I found, plus a few extras that came post-countdown!

1. Amy MacDonald- The Road to Home


2. Brandi Carlile- Hard Way Home

3. Simon & Garfunkel- Homeward Bound

4. She & Him- I'll Be Home For Christmas

5. O.A.R.- I Feel Home

6. Dolly Parton- Tennessee Homesick Blues

7. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros- Home

8. Donavon Frankenreiter & Jack Johnson- Heading Home

9. Marc Broussard- Home

10. Eliza Doolittle- Go Home


Plus some extras!

Phillip Phillips- Home

Gwenyth Paltrow- Coming Home