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Jenny Lewis [© Autumn DeWilde]

There's no place like home. There's no place like home.  Truer words have never been spoken and Jenny Lewis' new song "Barking at the Moon" from the animated Disney movie Bolt is about just that. George Carlin once said that home is simply a place to put your stuff, but Jenny has a sweeter message to lend about the concept of home. Home is where the heart is and "Barking at the Moon" is all heart. When Lewis sings "there is no home like the one you got cause that home belongs to you" in her golden-voiced country twang that trots alongside a bluegrass jangle (in the same vein as the sound she implored on her first solo album Rabbit Fur Coat), you can practically feel the sunshine on your shoulders pushing you towards home.  And just like that, with a click of her heels, and tilt of her head towards the moon, Lewis brings us home again.

— 12/05/2008