Jewel

Jewel – Spirit (Deluxe Edition) (1998/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:34:02 minutes | 3,04 GB | Genre: Pop Rock, Folk Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

25th anniversary Deluxe Edition of Jewel’s second album, Spirit. The 2-CD set includes the singles, “Hands,” “Down So Long” and “Jupiter.” The Deluxe Edition features eight previously unreleased demos and outtakes, rare live performances, and a collection of singles. The original 1998 release debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200. “Hands” was named Music Week’s Single of the Week, who stated that it “is a delicious, softly-sung number, showcasing this talented Alaskan’s songwriting skills.”

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Jewel – Picking Up The Pieces (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:35 minutes | 733 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Concord Sugar Hill

Picking Up the Pieces is Jewel’s 14-track LP through Sugar Hill Records. She self-produced the record – with her first producer, the late Ben Keith, always in mind – and hired a band comprised mostly of Neil Young collaborators to help her strip away the veneer she’d built up over two decades in the music business.

“This is just me. These are my thoughts. These are my feelings. This is my poetry,” Jewel said. “It really felt like returning to a part of me that I didn’t mean to lose, but with time and relationships and life and surviving and dealing, you take on new things and not all of them are great.”

The last five years have been full of change, both personal and creative, for the 41-year-old Alaska-born singer. Her 4-year-old son Kase was born, but her marriage fell apart. She wrote her memoir, Never Broken, and recorded a pair of children’s albums. Picking Up the Pieces captures some of these moments on “Love Used to Be” and “Mercy,” but also gathers longtime unrecorded live favorites like “Carnivore” and “Boy Needs a Bike.” The album also includes “My Father’s Daughter,” a stunning autobiographical collaboration with Dolly Parton.

“I was trying to keep my mind quiet and honestly get back to something I feel like I’d lost touch with in my life. It was really an exercise in shutting out fear. I was giving myself permission to be exactly who and what I was.”
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Jewel – Spirit (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:34:02 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Jewel – Freewheelin’ Woman (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:00 minutes | 886 MB | Genre: Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Words Matter Media

On her new album Freewheelin’ Woman, Jewel presents her boldest and most unbridled body of work to date, revealing entirely new dimensions of her breathtaking voice. In giving life to such a powerful selection of songs, the four-time Grammy Award-nominated artist immersed herself in a process she refers to as a spiritual rewilding—a reawakening of the raw creative energy that first set her on her path as an ever-evolving singer/songwriter.
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Jewel – Picking Up The Pieces (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:35 minutes | 733 MBGenre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Concord Sugar Hill

Picking Up the Pieces is Jewel’s 14-track LP through Sugar Hill Records. She self-produced the record – with her first producer, the late Ben Keith, always in mind – and hired a band comprised mostly of Neil Young collaborators to help her strip away the veneer she’d built up over two decades in the music business.

“This is just me. These are my thoughts. These are my feelings. This is my poetry,” Jewel said. “It really felt like returning to a part of me that I didn’t mean to lose, but with time and relationships and life and surviving and dealing, you take on new things and not all of them are great.”

The last five years have been full of change, both personal and creative, for the 41-year-old Alaska-born singer. Her 4-year-old son Kase was born, but her marriage fell apart. She wrote her memoir, Never Broken, and recorded a pair of children’s albums. Picking Up the Pieces captures some of these moments on “Love Used to Be” and “Mercy,” but also gathers longtime unrecorded live favorites like “Carnivore” and “Boy Needs a Bike.” The album also includes “My Father’s Daughter,” a stunning autobiographical collaboration with Dolly Parton.

“I was trying to keep my mind quiet and honestly get back to something I feel like I’d lost touch with in my life. It was really an exercise in shutting out fear. I was giving myself permission to be exactly who and what I was.”
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