Re: Jewel Bush?

[heisjohn@juno.com]

Lane wrote:
>"It's best considered as a guided tour through three decades of female
>folk-pop styles.  "Near You Always" is Blue-era Joni Mitchell; "Foolish
>Games," pure Kate Bush; 'I'm Sensitive,' [Suzanne] Vega with a
>lobotomy."
>I never bought the CD, so I can't comment.  Anyone out there care to
>explain what "pure Kate Bush" is as it relates to Jewel's "Foolish
>Games"?  If Jewel is really capable of combining all of the elements
>that make Kate's music so special into a single three minute ballad,
>then we may need to consider changing the focus of this news group.  
>;-)

Hardly.  "Foolish Games" is a fairly simple piano riff with an
intermittent string accompaniment -- vaguely reminiscent of Tori's work
on Little Earthquakes.  Now that I'm listening to it again (looking for
*any* similarity to Kate), I hear Tori again in Jewel's phrasing -- but
she really doesn't sound like either one.  

And for that matter, "Near You Always" doesn't sound anything like Joni
Mitchell and I don't hear Suzanne Vega in "I'm Sensitive" either.  Maybe
the reviewer had the lobotomy instead ;-)

John