This Way

Performer: Jewel
Engineer: Jeff Balding; John Kurzweg
Producer: Jewel Kilcher; Dann Huff; Jewel; John Kurzweg
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: This 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. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: John Willis, B. James Lowry (acoustic guitar); Dann Huff, Gordon Kennedy, Jerry McPherson, Kenny Greenberg, J.T. Corenflos (electric guitar); Dan Digmore, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, fiddle, cello); Roger Spencer , Bruce Christensen, Kathryn Plummer, Connie Ellisor, Karen Winkelmann, Beth Beeson, Dave Angell, Julie Tanner, Gerald Greer, Glenn Wanner, Lynn Bloom, Joy Worland, Anthony LaMarchina, Calvin Smith, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Bob Mason , Lee Larrison, Alan Umstead, Monisa Angell, Catherine Umstead, Cate Myer, Janet Askey, Gary VanOsdale (strings); George Tidwell (trumpet); Tim Akers, Steve Nathan (keyboards); Chris McHugh, Steve Brewster (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); David Lyndon Huff, Tedd T. (programming); Wayne Rodrigues (drum programming); Chris Rodrigues, Gene Miller, Lisa Cochran, Bekka Bramlett (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Jeff Balding. Recording information: Emerald ENtertainment, Nashville, TN; Ocean Way Nashville, Nashville, TN; The Sound Kitchen, Franklin, TN. Photographer: Ellen Von Unwerth. Arranger: Mark Goldenberg. 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.

Rolling 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..."

Influenced in equal measure by Tracy Chapman, the Indigo Girls, and Natalie Merchant, modern-day folk-rock singer Jewel hit it big in the late-'90s with her confessional and stark songwriting. Jewel has also branched out into other fields besides music--as a published poet and movie actress.

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