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Discography- Spirit

Jewel's highly-anticipated second album SPIRIT is in stores since November 17th, 1998. The album is Jewel's acclaimed first new release since her multi-platinum 1995 debut, PIECES OF YOU. All thirteen songs on the album were written by Jewel with the exception of the first single, 'Hands,' which was co-written with producer Patrick Leonard (best known for his work with Madonna). 'Hands' was widely played in the US, having received 1, 800 spins in less than a week.

SPIRIT was recorded in the earliest 1998 at Groove Masters in Santa Monica, CA, and at Oceanway Studios in Hollywood. The album sees Jewel accompanied by a core group of both session musicians and fellow singer/songwriters. Among them are Jude Cole on acoustic guitar, Ednaswap bassist Paul Bushnell, vetran Afro-Cuban jazz percussionist Luis Conte, and drummer Brian Macleod. Flea, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, also appears in SPIRIT, featuring in the song 'Barcelona'. The songs in SPIRIT are quite different to the ones of PIECES OF YOU, in the way that Jewel is mostly accompained by her band. But its songs still possess a stark honesty, accompained with profound messages embodied in poetry and true stories that touch intimately and show you the core of what makes us pure human beings.

'I knew exactly what I wanted to do with this record and what I wanted it to do to people,' Jewel told Billboard. 'I wanted to write a record that was the antidote to all the things which made me worry in the world, so that it's comforting somehow.'

The complete track listing of SPIRIT is:

  1. Deep Water
  2. What's Simple Is True
  3. Hands
  4. Kiss the Flame
  5. Down So Long
  6. Innocence Maintained
  7. Jupiter
  8. Fat Boy
  9. Enter From The East
  10. Barcelona
  11. Life Uncommon
  12. Do You
  13. Absence Of Fear
    (Bonus track: 'Little Bird')
Also available in:

Australasian Edition:

Bonus track: Who Will Save Your Soul (recorded live in 1996 for "2 Meter Sessions" in The Netherlands)
Bonus CD Rom: including Jewel's 'Hands' and 'Down So Long' videos in QuickTime format.
Bonus disc audio track:

  1. Foolish Games (live in Madrid 1999)
  2. Deep Water (recorded live at Fox FM, Melbourne, 1999)

UK Edition:

Bonus CD: Live in Madrid 1999:
Recorded at: Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Madrid (Feb. 11 1999)

  1. Down So Long
  2. What's Simple is True
  3. Foolish Games
  4. Do You
  5. Who Will Save Your Soul

Japanese Edition:

Bonus track: Who Will Save Your Soul (live)