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Jewel's first CD, originally released in the US on 28th February 1995, took a while to make its way to the UK. Finally released in the repackaged format during her UK tour in October 1997 (previously available in the UK on import with its original US cover). The cover is identical to the single release of Foolish Games (which unbelievably has still not been released in the UK)
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Who Will Save Your Soul, Pieces Of You, Little Sister, Foolish Games, Near You Always, Painters, Morning Song, Adrian, I'm Sensitive, You Were Meant For Me, Don't, Daddy, Angel Standing By, Amen, Foolish Games Edit
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| Reviews |
Q - June 1996. Review by John Aizlewood.
Star rating: ****
Twenty-year-old Alaskan Jewel (hippy parents alert) Kilcher has plenty going for her. She's uncommonly attractive, has spotted the gap in the market for a less squawky Tori Amos and has sufficient songwriterly cachet to entice Ben Keith, who produced Harvest, Harvest Moon and Patsy Cline, to do the same on this debut (recorded in 1994 but only now stumbling up the Billboard Top 10). She's obviously an unreconstructed hippy - allegedly lives in a van in San Diego; allegedly carries some Alaskan soil with her in a Tupperware container; certainly pads out her lyric booklet with poems, including the grim Upon Moving Into My Van - but nobody's that perfect. Lyrically, especially on the genuinely moving Angel Standing By and the plainly bonkers - if literary - Morning Song (You can be Henry Miller and I'll be Anais Nin) she's often brilliant and she has supremely wrought vocals. More bright melodies like Who Will Save Your Soul, two less songs and she'd be a world beater, but this is excellent for starters.
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