★★★★★
In the handwritten liner notes to her new album, Greatest Hits, Jewel admits that fans could simply create their own collections of an artist's music on iTunes rather than "fork over hard earned dough" on a new compilation. But for a singer-songwriter whose singles were so frequently remixed and re-recorded for mass consumption, most of which weren't widely available until now, Jewel's Greatest Hits should be an exception to the rule...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-02-15
★★★★★
Summary: what we call human nature in actuality is human habit By now, we all know the story of how Jewel came to be what she is today - how she overcame a poverty stricken life as a young adult by writing and performing music out of a van, gaining local recognition, and eventually going on to tour at venues worldwide. Her long and illustrious career has spurred numerous honors, awards, and tributes as she has transformed into one of pop's most recognizable figures from the past two decades...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
You Don't Know Her At All "Poetry is a passage into those parts of our being where we understand who we have been and where we discover and decide who and what we will be." --Jewel Kilcher, from a night without armour: poems Perhaps you are as tired of her as the rest of the world. For awhile there, it was Jewel everywhere. On stage, being outfitted by Tommy Hilfiger, dating movie stars, and all the while speaking about the degradation of fame and its trappings. Then came the white horse...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Ever since Bruce Springsteen's rise about a quarter century ago, authenticity in pop stars has become a fetish among consumers, and since the music business loves to give the public what it wants, it has snatched up whichever performers seem to have the most homegrown cred. If these stars are lacking in this department, the gap is bridged with careful image manicures. If these artistes stray from their original path, they explain it away with talk of a restless muse...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Ever since she arrived on the music scene with "Foolish Games," a part of me wondered if Jewel wasn't better off releasing records that focused on country music. It may have taken her thirteen years to do so but with the release of "Perfectly Clear," Jewel has finally come home to country and has been embraced with open arms by the mainstream country music community. Leading off "Perfectly Clear" is Jewel's first Top 15 hit at country radio...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
From the first time that I heard "Folish Games" by Jewel I thought her music felt more 'country' than mainstream pop or at the very least country in the way that any folk/pop album could be country. The lyrics of almost all of Jewel's albums haven't ever felt like the kind of stuff that mainstream pop or rock would consist of and while she fit well within the Lilith Fair set, Jewel always felt like an odd pop star...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
I find it absolutely baffling that someone who had something approaching credibility - an alt-folkie singer/songwriter from Alaska who played alongside her parents in Inuit villages as a child, and slept in her van before making it big on the strength of intellectual integrity and stripped, down-to-earth approachability - would next come out of the gate doing third-rate Britney Spears at a time when even Britney wishes she wasn't Britney. This is desperate, no bones about it...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Jewel is a lady of undeniable success. Eleven years have passed since her splendid debut album 'Pieces of You' during which she has sold over 25million records worldwide. Poetry books, painting, acting are all part of her many skills but its back to music for now with her sixth and latest LP release 'Goodbye Alice in the Wonderland'...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Jewel picked a funny way of introducing listeners to what she calls her most autobiographical CD. You might think intimate truths would be launched carefully, small-scale, so fans could hear the words. But she debuted these songs at a NASCAR race, followed by a concert broadcast in Wal-Marts. And why not? Her lyrics might once have torn pages out of her journal, but the new songs are excessively polished and precisely drawn, and relentlessly deliver an uplifting message...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
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