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Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings
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Sep 7, 2010I love Jewel, I really do. I think "Perfectly Clear" was flawed but enjoyable and I had great hopes on her country phase. But this is a snoring fest. The songs are bland, unoriginal, overproduced. Feels like the whole project was rushed or that the only aim was marketability.
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She’s saved here--on both the produced main album and its bare-bones acoustic cousin on the deluxe version, which isn’t as different as it might initially appear--by her essential sweetness, which shines through in her melody and mellow moods that aren’t sullied by a hint of wildness.
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Jewel offers basic country tropes both musical (twanging Telecasters, whining fiddles, banjoes bubbling underneath the surface, train-track rhythms) and lyrical (with references to both Wal-Mart and a dying soldier imparting wisdom) in the hopes of rousing the market base she first courted on 2008’s “Perfectly Clear.’’
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The pedal steel and fiddle sound like add-ons designed to get her played on country radio, and a few of the melodies could've been hijacked from a Nashville jingles factory. But there's some moving midlife melancholy beneath the surface, especially on the startling ''Fading.''