Come Away with Me Best Albums of the Decade. "Come Away with Me" received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 9 reviews. The album received 3.5 out of 4 stars from both the "Chicago Sun-Times" and the "Los Angeles Times" reviews. AllMusic's David R. Adler wrote that "while the mood of this record stagnates after a few songs, it does give a strong indication of Jones' alluring talents." Robert Christgau of "The Village Voice"
Northern soul with a more contemporary sound. The phrase "Northern soul" emanated from the record shop Soul City in Covent Garden, London, which was run by journalist Dave Godin. It was first publicly used in Godin's weekly column in "Blues & Soul" magazine in June 1970. In a 2002 interview with Chris Hunt of "Mojo" magazine, Godin said he had first come up with the term in 1968, to help employees at Soul City differentiate the more modern funkier sounds from the smoother, Motown-influenced soul of a few years earlier. With contemporary black music evolving into what would eventually become known as