Jewel - Sweet And Wild reviews
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| Allmusic |
 Unlike her dance-pop makeover 304, Jewel’s 2008 country excursion provided a perfect pivot back toward the soothing, strumalong folk that made the singer/songwriter a star. She alludes to this as much with the title of Sweet & Wild, a collection that is surely as sweet as sugar and just about as wild, too. Not so much abandoning her brief country dalliance as using it as flavoring -- diluting it to a much greater degree than the already mildly twangy Perfectly Clear -- Jewel is able to ease into a set of songs that have no concept, arguably for the first time in well over a decade. Without a stylistic device or narrative throughline, Jewel seems a bit at ease, spinning out sentimental tales, usually about love but sometimes about social issues, such as advanced age. Jewel tends to be a bit heavy-handed in her message and delivery, resorting to the throaty growl that tends to obscure her hooks and intent, but 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....full text |
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| Ew |
| Sweet and Wild is Jewel's second album in her cowgirl guise, following her '90s sensitive-folkie phase and her unfortunate turn as a dance-pop diva. 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.'' B–...full text |
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| Boston |
| On paper, country music should be right in the wheelhouse of acoustic-slinging yodeler Jewel. But the timbre of her voice (and husband Ty Murray’s rodeo career) notwithstanding, “Sweet and Wild’’ doesn’t reveal any special affinity for the genre. Instead, 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.’’ Worse, her pop sensibilities fail her even as she apes Taylor Swift as closely as possible, singing about love stories and fairy tales in “I Love You Forever’’ and “Fading,’’ the tale of a crazy person dragged naked from a Wal-Mart, from the crazy person’s perspective. Jewel also tries out songs suited to Keith Urban (“Ten,’’ “One True Thing’’) and Carrie Underwood (“Bad As It Gets,’’ “No More Heartaches’’), making “Sweet and Wild’’ sound like she rummaged through the reject piles on Music Row. But no, with one exception, she wrote the songs, which aren’t improved in the acoustic versions included in the deluxe edition as a bonus disc called “Sweet and Mild.’’ At least Jewel knows how to describe her music.(Out tomorrow) MARC HIRSH...full text |
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