Re: Jewel Bush?

[Leiter <leiter@skypoint.com>]

Lane Stephenson wrote:
> 
> This week's Entertainment Weekly (8-15-97) includes a new review of
> Jewel's year and a half old "Pieces of You" to coincide with it's
> re-release as a double vinyl LP with 5 "bonus tracks".  The reviewer
> (who basically says that it is OK but weak) writes:
> 
> "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."

"Foolish Games" is nothing like KB.  It does sound an awful lot like
Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust", though.  Jewel doesn't have any of KB's
Victorian thing.