Product Description

JEWEL Spirit (1998 US 13-track CD album including Deep Water Hands Down So Long and Jupiter picture sleeve 82950-2)

Track Listing

1. Deep Water
2. What's Simple is True
3. Hands
4. Kiss the Flame
5. Down So Long
6. Innocence Maintained
7. Jupiter
8. Fat Boy
9. Enter from the East
10. Barcelona
11. Life Uncommon
12. Do You
13. Absence of Fear

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #232 in Music
• Released on: 1998-11-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 4.00" w x 6.00" l, .23 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
It's time for an update of our image of Jewel, the ingenue who set the music world on fire with her 1995 debut album, Pieces of You. After all, that effort consisted primarily of songs Jewel had written several years before, some of them dating back to her days as a free- spirited waif living in a van on the beach in San Diego. Now, at 25, she's become a sort of guru for self-expression and full disclosure, revealing perhaps too much of herself in see-through dresses worn to awards shows and a critically drubbed (yet bestselling) book of poetry. Spirit makes plain why Jewel's well-intentioned yet sometimes facile lyrics strike a chord with her audience while her poetry lies flat on the page. On songs like "Deep Water", "Hands", and "Down So Long", her words are borne aloft by sparkling melodies and her soaring voice, making even the most cynical observer take a schoolgirl-notebook image such as "your heart like grape gum on the ground" or an unreassuring platitude like "If I could tell the world just one thing / It would be that we're all OK" somewhat in stride. On Pieces of You, Jewel posed the musical question "Who will save your soul?" On Spirit, it sounds like she wants to do it herself. And the truth is, if you don't overanalyse it, the album does act as a sort of balm for wounded psyches or maybe a primer for raising your own inner child. Maybe she's right and we are all OK. Who knew? --Daniel Durchholz

Chronique amazon.fr
Lors de la sortie de son premier album, Pieces Of You, Jewel fut considérée comme la nouvelle égérie folk par une critique dithyrambique. Après une participation remarquée aux concerts féminins du Lilith Fair et le succès de ses singles "You Were Meant For Me", "Who'll Save Your Soul ?" ou "Foolish Games", elle était attendue au tournant de son second album. Elle n'a pas manqué de décevoir, y compris ses fans. Spirit hésite entre hard folk (ce qui faisait l'originalité du premier disque tant il s'opposait aux courants musicaux émergents comme la techno) et pop surproduite. Non, n'est pas Joni Mitchell ou Joan Baez qui veut... --Pierre-Marie Dufour

Entertainment Weekly
With her dulcet voice and lulling refrains, Jewel makes the social and political ills of the world go down easy. But in doing so, she unintentionally confounds the problem, since her honeyed background-music folk makes issues of life and death appear more benign and less worrisome than they are.