"Almost Home" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Mary Chapin Carpenter.

[4] Carpenter wrote the song with Beth Nielsen Chapman and Annie Roboff, and produced it with Blake Chancey.

[5] Deborah Evans Price of Billboard reviewed the single with favor, saying that "it's a vibrant musical outing that could signal a return to prominence for this talented singer/songwriter.

Carpenter's evocative vocals infuse any song with passion and integrity, and she's particularly effective on this poignant lyric.

"[5] Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly also described the song favorably in her review of the album, saying that it "scores the highest at marrying lyrical introspection and rhythmic yearning, one of the benchmarks of her graceful, if circuitous, career.