... Spirit is definitely an album that you can chill out to. Her lyrics are always thought provoking though and make you look at her world and the world around us differently after listening to the tracks. It almost seems like some of her songs are a therapy for her, like she is trying to get ... Read review
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Advantages: Folk music, thought provoking, calming Disadvantages: None
...feel really calmed and peaceful. Spirit is definitely an album that you can chill out to. Her lyrics are always thought provoking though and make you look at her world and the world around us differently after listening to the tracks. It almost seems like some of her songs are a therapy for her, like she is trying to get over some things or tell people how she feels by putting those words into song. I like the fact that she uses real life experiences ... ...for everyone.
Spirit is her second album after the very successful Pieces of You. It was released in 1998 and debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 368,000 copies sold in its first week. She dedicates this album to her mother. In the sleeve she writes this:
"My mother has always sought to understand what it means to be a human being in the highest sense and how to be that. She has gently inspired and nurtured ... more
We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend. (A quote from her album)
Jewel is one of my favourite singers. Her full name is Jewel Kilcher but use Jewel as her stage name. She is s an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide, and almost twenty million in the United States alone. All this from a girl who grew up quite poor and at one time lived in her car when she was just starting out doing gigs. I would definitely say that she is way more famous in the US than here. I don't really think I have ever heard any of her stuff here as it was in the US that I really got to know her.
I would describe her music as a type of folk music, on a lot of the songs it is just her and her guitar so it has quite an acoustic sound. She writes her own songs too which I like, they are not written for her. You can tell that she actually cares about each song and has a real connection to it and the words which makes it even more special. What I love about her is that you can put on her songs and feel really calmed and peaceful. Spirit is definitely an album that you can chill out to. Her lyrics are always thought provoking though and make you look at her world and the world around us differently after listening to the tracks. It almost seems like some of her songs are a therapy for her, like she is trying to get over some things or tell people how she feels by putting those words into song. I like the fact that she uses real life experiences to form part of her songs as it makes them way more interesting if they have a story attached to them.
I do admit though that it's one of those albums that the first time you hear it you either love it or you hate it as I do accept that her music is not for everyone.
Spirit is her second album after the very successful Pieces of You. It was released in 1998 and debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 368,000 copies sold in its first week. She dedicates this album to her mother. In the sleeve she writes this:
"My mother has always sought to understand what it means to be a human being in the highest sense and how to be that. She has gently inspired and nurtured that desire in me. This album is dedicated to my mother and partner, Nedra Carroll, who is an example and teacher to me of what it means to be the difference and to all of you who are being the difference in our world."
My favourite track on this album is number 3, Hands. It talks about how they are her hands but that she can use them to do good in the world and that they are also God's hands.
The rest of the tracks are as follows:
"Deep Water" "What's Simple Is True" "Hands" "Kiss the Flame" "Down So Long" "Innocence Maintained" "Jupiter" "Fat Boy" "Enter from the East" "Barcelona" "Life Uncommon" "Do You" "Absence of Fear"
Advantages: A very thought provoking album with a beautiful delicate voice Disadvantages: Maybe too thought provoking!!
A friend told me about Jewel, I wasnt too sure as I dont usual go for female soloists but I was certainly surprised. Jewel isnt too well known in the UK and I am surprised that she has not made it bigger here. Her album is very thought provoking and has a definate affect on people. The lyrics are amazing and really makes you think. This isnt for some people but I tend to listen to lyrics more and their meanings rather than the sound of the song. ...
renneevans 29.04.2007
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Advantages: Jewel has a beautiful voice - the instrumentation doesn’t drown it! The lyrics are full of meaning Disadvantages: Perhaps some will be surprised at the change in style since her first album, pieces of you. I personally don’t think this is such a bad thing
The Alaskan solo singer, Jewel, has evolved at a rate resembling a cheetah both in musical style and lyrics over the gap between her last album and this. The ingénue who set the music world alight in 1995 with her debut album, Pieces of You, is back and the contrast between her first album, which 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, and this, her second, is all to obvious. Now, at 25, she's become a sort of guru for self-expression and full disclosure with her latest book of poetry, A Night Without Armour, gaining both critical acclaim and remaining on the best-seller list for months.
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Jewel's voice may be on the sunny side, but her music and lyrics are sharp. the songs are predominately accostic and are full of wry observations such as, "you wake up making love to a wall. The album starts strongly with Drowning in Deep water and Hands, but towards the middle she seems to lose her way a little with songs like Fat Boy. The message she is trying to put out is clrear - too clear, so that the lyrics are corny and overly sentimental. However she makes up for these with the last listed song - The Absense of Fear, with a memorable piano part and her voice put to its best effect by singing softly but at no time weakly. ...
Advantages: Relaxed feel, amazong voice, variety of tracks Disadvantages: Too short
Amazing. I borrowed the album off an acquaintance at church; fair enough, I thought, could be a bit overpoweringly Christian, but I'll give it a go. And boy, am I glad I did! This fantastic album is more than songs; its an outlook on life through well though out lyrics and deep thoughts, portrayed in heart rendering songs in a country/rock style. But dont be put off, theres none of your average southern texas style wailing in this country, just a purely amazing voice singing in a style that suits her. ALthough the underlying feelings are Christian, these arent too strongly put across, just the odd reference to us being 'God's hands' which is fair enough.
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Product details
Title
Spirit
Performer
Jewel (Folk Rock)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Release Date
16/11/1998
Recomended Retail Price
15.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1998
Label / Distributor
Atlantic / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Ross Hogarth; Chris Shaw
Producer
Patrick Leonard; Peter Collins
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
75678295027
Catalogue Number
7567829502
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Jewel (vocals, acoustic guitar); Nedra Carroll (vocals); Jude Cole (acoustic guitar, mandolin, dobro, dulcimer, background vocals); James Harrah (acoustic & electric guitars); David Channing, Josh Clayton-Felt (electric guitar); Marty Rifkin (pedal steel guitar); Paul Jackson, Jr. (12 string guitar); Cameron Stone (cello); Patrick Leonard (piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3, programming); Flea, Paul Bushnell (bass); Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Brian Macleod (drums, hand drum); Luis Conte (percussion). Recorded at Groove Masters, Santa Monica, California; Oceanway, Hollywood, California; Sound Stage Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; Bearsville Theatre, Bearsville, New York. Includes liner notes by Jewel. All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. Aided by airy but sparkling production by Patrick Leonard, Jewel comforts one and all with this collection. On "Hands," she sings that if she could tell the world just one thing, "It would be that we're all OK." Outside of her multi-octave, crystalline voice, therein lies a large part of Jewel's true appeal--a seemingly boundless compassion. To the Beatles prescription "All You Need Is Love," she adds one more ingredient: "Fill your lives with love and bravery/And you shall lead a life uncommon." While much of her yearning is spiritual and utopian, Jewel is not immune to the call of the flesh. In "Do You" she wants to stay with a lover because their teeth are straight and "the sex is good." It's not all about words however. There's a hip-hop touch in the rhythm section on "Down So Long," confirmed in the third verse when Jewel raps for about two bars. The natural sounds throughout the CD dominate the subtler synth touches. Acoustic guitar, tasteful wah-wah and spot-on harmonies make this an extremely intimate, personal sounding release.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (12/10/98, pp.119-120) - 3 (out of 5) - "...Jewel's sincere sentiment has its attractions in a time of irony overload; she plays John Denver to Dylanesque tricksters like Courtney Love and Beck..." CMJ (12/21/98, p.24) - "...Her sentimental musings and near-anthemic tunes...explore love, quircky obsessions, and feelings of loneliness in such a gooey, poetic kind of way, you can't help but listen."
Titles on disc 1
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.
Abscence Of Fear
14.
This Little Bird (live, overdubbed harmony vocals) - Nedra Carroll
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