They're Calling Me Home

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| MC = 89/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/theyre-calling-me-home/rhiannon-giddens|title=They're Calling Me Home by Rhiannon Giddens Reviews and Tracks|website=Metacritic|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/theyre-calling-me-home-mw0003475353|title=Rhiannon Giddens – They're Calling Me Home Album Review|website=AllMusic|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

| rev2 = The Guardian

| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/16/rhiannon-giddens-and-francesco-turrisi-theyre-calling-me-home-review|title=Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi: They're Calling Me Home review – big, beautiful laments|newspaper=The Guardian|last=Rogers|first=Jude|author-link=Jude Rogers|date=April 16, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

| rev3 = PopMatters

| rev3score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/rhiannon-gidden-calling-me-home|title=Rhiannon Giddens Remains Timeless and Contemporary on They're Calling Me Home|website=AllMusic|last=Ezell|first=Brice|date=May 19, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

| rev4 = Under the Radar

| rev4score = {{Rating|8|10}}{{cite magazine|url=https://undertheradarmag.com/reviews/theyre_calling_me_home|title=Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi: They're Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)|magazine=Under the Radar|last=Jardine|first=Ben|date=April 13, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

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They're Calling Me Home received a score of 89 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on seven critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Uncut described it as an "extended mediation on the expat experience, with yearningly hymnal renditions", while Mojo called "the pair's musical chemistry a potent one". Jim Hynes of Glide Magazine wrote that "while this work may not be as riveting and stunning as its predecessor, due mostly to the familiarity of many of the tunes, that dynamic cuts both ways because there are few interpreters as adept as Giddens for traditional fare. Also, the remarkable musical chemistry between the duo just continues to grow".{{cite web|url=https://glidemagazine.com/255505/rhiannon-giddens-and-francesco-turrisi-collaborate-in-dublin-on-theyre-calling-me-home-album-review/|title=Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi Collaborate In Dublin On They're Calling Me Home (Album Review)|website=Glide Magazine|last=Hynes|first=Jim|date=April 5, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2023}}

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described the album as "soulful, searching" as well as "homesickness [... ,] meditations on mortality and the meaning of home" with "traditional melodies [...] revived alongside new compositions that feel ancient, and folk traditions from America and Europe are blended so they're difficult to parse". Jude Rogers of The Guardian called it "a big, beautiful album, a showcase for direct, punchy emotions and Giddens' vocal versatility" and felt that its "dazzling examples" of tracks such as the Italian lullaby "Nenna Nenna", the title track and "Niwel Goes to Town", will "live on".

Reviewing the album for PopMatters, Brice Ezell characterized the album as "a set of new and traditional songs exemplifying [Giddens's] rootedness in music history", one that also "memorializes and breathes new life into a set of songs that feel familiar and entirely unexpected". Ben Jardine of Under the Radar summarized it as "folk songs, lullabies, and spirituals, all of which have been influential to Giddens and Turrisi. Each track is an emotional glimpse of their musical DNA: reworked [... and] refreshed with the virtuosic pulse of two of the world's finest maestros".

{{Track listing

| headline = They're Calling Me Home track listing

| title1 = Calling Me Home

| length1 = 3:49

| title2 = Avalon

| length2 = 3:54

| title3 = Si Dolce è'l Tormento

| length3 = 3:56

| title4 = I Shall Not Be Moved

| length4 = 4:58

| title5 = Black as Crow

| length5 = 5:22

| title6 = O Death

| length6 = 3:13

| title7 = Niwel Goes to Town

| length7 = 3:22

| title8 = When I Was in My Prime

| length8 = 4:06

| title9 = Waterbound

| length9 = 3:57

| title10 = Bully for You

| length10 = 2:40

| title11 = Nenna Nenna

| length11 = 2:37

| title12 = Amazing Grace

| length12 = 3:55

| total_length = 45:49

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