Honestly, I am not in cahoots with HSN to get you to purchase Jewel's latest album from them. I recently watched an episode of GAC "Origins" where Jewel discusses her album Sweet and Wild
and performs acoustic versions of some of the songs (recordings of which are also available on the CD itself). I've always wanted to like Jewel, but I was never terribly impressed by her material up to this point (maybe the melodies were too mellow, or the singing too breathy - I don't really know what it was). So while the clips from "Origins" are not available online, the ones from this HSN special are, and I have included a few of the best ones below. Suffice it to say I was completely blown away by these acoustic performances, and the songs have been swirling around in my brain for the past week or so. I've already purchased this CD - if you decide to do the same, I think you will agree that this is probably her best songwriting so far. And if you purchase it from HSN, I wonder if they might cut me in on a little commission? Update: my original videos were removed, so I uploaded some new, non-HSN ones. I found a good (though oddly-edited) video of an acoustic performance of "Ten," and I also included the music video for "No Good in Goodbye."
