Product Description

JEWEL This Way (2002 UK 14-track CD album featuring 2 live tracks: Grey Matter and Sometimes It Be That Way picture sleeve)

Track Listing

1. Standing Still
2. Jesus Loves You
3. Everybody Needs Someone Sometime
4. Break Me
5. Do You Want To Play?
6. Till We Run Out of Road
7. Serve The Ego
8. This Way
9. Cleveland
10. I Won't Walk Away
11. Love Me, Just Leave Me Alone
12. The New Wild West
13. Grey Matter (Recorded Live)
14. Sometimes It Be That Way (Recorded Live)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11029 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 5.00" h x 5.75" w x .50" l, .23 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
It's easy to see on This Way that Jewel wants to lighten up. With two previous multimillion-selling albums (and a couple of much-scorned but popular books) filled with earnest, clueless revelations behind her, the singer-songwriter comes a little closer to ground with This Way.

"Give it hell 'til the end," a former compatriot urges her on "Till We Run Out of Road", her version of Jackson Browne's "The Load Out". Could that be a hard-bitten road warrior deep inside the woman who makes a point of pronouncing the "O"'s in the opening line ("Mirror, mirror") of this album's "Serve the Ego"? Maybe. But despite her icky streak's spread to cutesy jokes ("Jesus Loves You"), Jewel hasn't quite abandoned her old judgmental ways (in "I Won't Walk Away", she spies a couple "resisting being one") and ambitions to, you know, really say something, as in the "Desolation Row"-lite "The New Wild West". Still, with some nice, if bland, arrangements set around her, This Way is the Jewel album most likely to appeal to Jewel non-fans. --Rickey Wright

Chronique amazon.fr
Dans le genre, This Way est une réussite. La voie qu'indique Jewel n'est pourtant nouvelle en rien ; bien au contraire, elle est un sommet de classicisme classieux comme en attendent les amateurs d'americana FM. La recette est parfaite et pas un boulon ne manque, de l'engagement des paroles qui renvoie à une certaine tradition du folk ("The New Wild West") au chouia de spiritualité bon chic bon genre ("Jesus Loves You") sans compter que la diva caracole, très à l'aise, dans tous les registres – qu'elle minaude d'une voix sensuelle ou qu'elle s'excite avec une pêche qui évoque le blues de certaines de ses consoeurs. À dire vrai, les portes du succès sont garanties à Jewel qui rappelle en bien des points Heather Nova. À 27 ans, elle signe un disque mature produit par le guitariste qui monte en 2002 : Dann Huff. Du mainstream de qualité qui devrait ravir fans de Tracy Chapman et Rickie Lee Jones. --Hervé Comte

Album Description
Exclusive Australian version of her 2001 album includes the two bonus tracks that grace the US version, 'Grey Matter (Live)' & 'Sometimes It Has To Be That Way (Live)' + the Japanese bonus track, 'A Long Slow Slide (Live)' making this the most complete version in the world. Also included on this 15 track edition is an enhanced component that features studio footage of her first single off the album 'Standing Still'.