Track Listing

1. Again and Again
2. Long Slow Slide
3. Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
4. Good Day
5. Satellite
6. Only One Too
7. Words Get In the Way
8. Drive To You
9. Last Dance Rodeo
10. Fragile Heart
11. Stephenville, TX
12. Where You Are
13. 1000 Miles Away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7025 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Album Description
Jewel is about to deliver her most personal and autobiographical record so far-Goodbye Alice in Wonderland. Not content to relegate herself to a traditional music arena, or to be typecast, Jewel has established herself as a culturally significant and relevant brand. Author, songwriter, actress, poet-there are no limits to how Jewel can and will deliver her message. The underlining truth that ties it all together is the integrity of that message.

Amazon.com
The word "confessional" is frequently applied to folk of all stripes, including folk-rock and folk-pop, which is where Jewel comes in. Even within the bounds of folk, however, her music is more nakedly confessional than most. (Too nakedly, some have carped.) Along with a coterie of Nashville pros, she began her latest musical journey by laying down another introspective song cycle in the vein of 1995's Pieces of You. Dissatisfied with the results, the Texas-based artist scrapped that effort and re-recorded with Rob Cavallo (Green Day). This lends her sixth album the expected rock edge, but Jewel hasn't changed her spots. If anything, she sounds more like, well, Jewel than she did on dance-oriented departure 0304. She’s still pop star ("Fragile Heart"), sensitive folkie ("Long Slow Slide"), and scrappy country gal ("Stephenville, TX"). Her Joni Mitchell-esque soprano soars as high as ever, with more of a sardonic Dylan chaser than before. What's changed is that maturity has granted Jewel, now in her early 30s, greater perspective--"Growing up is not an absence of dreaming," she states in the title track--and a sense of humor missing from her more earnest early work. On "Satellite," for instance, written when she was 18, but revamped since, she notes that "the Pope," "rock and roll," "Valium," even "Miss Cleo" can't fix her broken heart. In her statement about the album, Jewel claims that, after years of ups and downs, she's "not broken, just more myself." --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews

Inesquecível e imperdível
Jewel tem sido, há anos, uma nova voz, inspiradora, doce, juntamente com Paula Cole. O CD está sensacional

Much better!
The previous two CDs of her's before this one were less than mediocre. I didn't think they were Jewel at all. The last two CDs were lacking in lyrical content in my opinion. Goodbye Alice in Wonderland is the old Jewel! Her lyrics on this CD actually make a point. I've have liked Jewel since Who Will Save Your Soul and I am so glad she is still making music!

back to basics
almost anyway. I'm glad jewel got away from her pop stuff. it was horrible. After reading her book I understand why it happened but it was still really awful to watch jewel try to glam anything up. The album was good and very relaxing but she didn't have the same fight in her.