Greatest Hits

by Jewel

Overview

Jewel's back story as a sensitive singer/songwriter busking her way across the country while living out of her van carries so much mythic weight it winds up overshadowing the entirety of her career, much of which does not consist of simple folky songs as Greatest Hits, her first-ever compilation, makes clear. Released in 2013, two years after her Grammy Award-winning children's album but three after her second country album, Sweet & Wild, Greatest Hits rounds up all of Jewel's big hits, a move that emphasizes how often she's gunned for the top of the charts. Not long after 1995's debut Piece of You and its three smash singles ("Who Will Save Your Soul," "You Were Meant for Me," "Foolish Games") turned into a platinum hit, she began broadening her sound, lathering strings upon "Hands" from 1998's Spirit, shaking off lingering preciousness for her 2001 adult alternative set This Way (hit single, "Standing Still"), and then taking a sharp left turn for 2003's dance-pop makeover 304 (hit single, "Intuition"). That album lost her some folk purists so she made a partial return to the sound for 2006's Goodbye Alice in Wonderland before finding a new audience within the parameters of contemporary country. Taken album by album, these turns were sometimes bewildering but compressed into a hits collection, they do seem to follow crowd-pleasing logic, emphasizing Jewel's knack for pleasing melodies. That instinct to satisfy a broad audience extends to the new cuts added to the Greatest Hits -- the gleaming insistent adult pop of "Two Hearts Breaking" fits right into modern radio circa 2013, but the bigger tell is the inclusion of re-recordings of "You Were Meant for Me" and "Foolish Games," performed as duets with the Pistol Annies and Kelly Clarkson, respectively, each a bid for the continued patronage of her country and pop audiences. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	10/19/2018
Label:	Craft Records
UPC:	0888072072305
Rank:	30667

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jewel   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Patrick Leonard   Organ,Piano,Keyboards,Piano (Electric)
Paul Bushnell   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Kelly Clarkson   Featured Artist
Steve Brewster   Drums
Chris McHugh   Drums
Spooner Oldham   Keyboards
Rusty Anderson   Guitar (Electric)
John Pierce   Bass
John Willis   Guitar (Acoustic)
Josh Clayton   Guitar (Electric)
Rob Cavallo   Guitar
Luis Conte   Percussion
Jewel Kilcher   Vocals
Jimmie Sloas   Guitar (Bass)
Dorian Crozier   Drums
The Nashville String Machine   Strings
Tim Drummond   Guitar (Bass)
Dann Huff   Guitar (Electric)
Tim Pierce   Guitar
David Channing   Guitar (Electric)
Jackie Street   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Greg Suran   Guitar
James Harrah   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Eric Darken   Percussion
Tim Akers   Keyboards
Jamie Muhoberac   Piano,Keyboards
Robbie Buchanan   Piano
Ronn Huff   Conductor,String Conductor
Jude Cole   Guitar (Acoustic)
Jerry McPherson   Guitar (Electric)
Brian Macleod   Drums
Mark Oakley   Guitar (Acoustic)
Oscar Butterworth   Drums
Nedra Carroll   Vocals (Background)
Mike Bolger   Accordion
Lester A. Mendez   Keyboards
Pistol Annies   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Serban Ghenea   Mixing
Allen Sides   Engineer
Patrick Leonard   Composer,Producer,Recording Producer
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Andrew Scheps   Engineer
Steve Poltz   Composer,Lyricist
Harold Arlen   Composer
Bob Ludwig   Mastering Engineer
Kevin Killen   Mixing
Chris Bellman   Remastering
Matt Beckley   Pro-Tools
Chris Gehringer   Mastering
Chuck Ainlay   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Recording Producer
Will Quinnell   Assistant Engineer
F. Reid Shippen   Mixing
Clif Norrell   Engineer
Gene Eichelberger   Mixing
Ben Keith   Producer,Recording Producer
Lou Giordano   Producer
John Dixon   Engineer,Assistant Engineer
Greg Collins   Engineer
Greg Wells   Composer
Doug McKean   Recording
Steve Woolard   Project Assistant
Mike Engstrom   Project Assistant
Virginia Davis   Management
Jason Hall   Engineer
John Nowland   Engineer,Recording
Rob Cavallo   Producer,Recording Producer
Ryan Freeland   Engineer
John Rich   Producer
Justin Niebank   Mixing
Peter Collins   Producer
Liz Rose   Composer
Jewel Kilcher   Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Jimmy Hoyson   Assistant Engineer
Rick Nowels   Composer,Lyricist
Mary Green   Composer
Jewel   Composer,Producer,Recording Producer
Ross Hogarth   Mixing,Engineer,Recording
Kara DioGuardi   Composer
Keith Armstrong   Mixing Engineer
Tim Mulligan   Engineer,Mastering,Recording,Music Editor,Mastering Engineer
Glenn Worf   Producer,Recording Producer
Dann Huff   Producer,Recording Producer
John Morrical   Assistant Engineer
Nathan Chapman   Producer
Carlos Paucar   Engineer
Tim Roberts   Assistant Engineer
Chris Steffen   Assistant Engineer
Gary LeMel   Producer
Drew Bollman   Assistant
Danny Bramson   Producer
Seth Waldmann   Assistant Engineer
Steve Marcantonio   Engineer
Chris Lord-Alge   Mixing
Frank Liddell   Producer,Recording Producer
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg   Composer
Jay Joyce   Engineer,Producer,Recording Producer
Lester Mendez   Composer
Marv Green   Composer
Mason Williams   A&R
Brian Vibberts   Assistant Engineer
John Hanes   Pro-Tools
Gloria Gabriel   A&R
Barry Saling   Recording
Lenedra Carroll   Executive Producer
Lisa Gilnes   Design,Art Direction
David Campbell   Arranger,Horn Arrangements
Mike "Frog" Griffith   Production Coordination
Becky Scott   Production Coordination
Evan Lamberg   Executive Producer
Matthew Wheeler   Assistant
Greg Burns   Assistant Engineer
Dmitar Krnjaic   Mixing Engineer
Troy Jensen   Tray Photo
Ron Shapiro   A&R,Executive Producer
John Hausmann   Assistant Engineer
David Lessoff   Project Assistant
Brian Cometa   Assistant Engineer
Dan Chase   Engineer
Shawn Daugherty   Assistant
Richard W. Nowels Jr.   Composer
Brandon Schexnayder   Assistant
Lester A. Mendez   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Linzi Schall   Project Assistant
Wolfgang Ludes   Photography
Bruce Gilmer   Arranger