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Product Identifiers

Record LabelWarner Bros.

UPC9325583013751

eBay Product ID (ePID)13050180132

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2001

GenreRock

ArtistJewel

Release TitleThis Way

Additional Product Features

DistributionMSI Music Distribution

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

ReviewsRolling Stone (11/22/01, p.89) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Elegant, earthy, engaged..." Q (2/02, p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...An album of tuneful but calculated pop-rock to be admired rather than loved..."

Additional informationThis is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel includes: Jewel (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Willis, B. James Lowry (acoustic guitar); Dann Huff, Jerry McPherson, Kenny Greeenberg (electric guitar); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, cello); The Nashville String Machine (strings); George Tidwell (trumpet); Tim Akers, Steve Nathan (keyboards); Jimmie Sloas (bass); Chris McHugh, Steve Brewster (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Tedd T. (programming); Chris Rodriguez, Gene Miller, Bekka Bramlett (background vocals); Josh Freese. Recorded at Emerald Entertainment and Ocean Way Nashville, Tennessee; The Sound Kitchen, Franklin, Tennessee. CD contains 1 bonus track. The first three songs on Jewel Kilcher's first new album after a long layoff (her previous release was a 1999 Christmas album) embrace country, alternative rock, and a kind of John Cougar Mellencamp rock/country. She finds her own voice five songs in, with the tour de force "Do You Want to Play?" whose smart lyrics combined with a killer chorus are an immediate highlight of this self-assured collection. "Jesus Loves You" is a thoughtful meditation on consumerism that also manages to include the sassy couplet "It's not what I can do for anybody/It's what their body can do for me," underlining the singer's confident way with her subject matter. "Till We Run Out of Road" is that rock & roll staple, the road song, but she returns to form with "Everyone Needs Someone Sometime," a self-explanatory examination in which the singer's smart storytelling skills are on full display. With the inclusion of a couple of solo acoustic live tracks showcasing Jewel's raw talent and its firm rock backbone underlaying her maturing vocals, THIS WAY is a confident return to form from a singer many had previously written off as a one-hit wonder.

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo