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Coming on the eve of the final Lilith Fair, the all-female concert tour that Sarah McLachlan brought to life two summers ago, her Mirrorball (Arista) marks one of the most exciting and fruitful periods for female singer-songwriters since Laura Nyro and Carole King lit up concert halls in the late '60s and early '70s. Much of the excitement has hovered around Lilith itself, which boosted once underrated talents like Lucinda Williams and Shawn Colvin. But the soul of the new female pop machine is surely McLachlan, whose tunes have gained the kind of prom-night, dorm-room...
...album was, truth be told, a little wan, a little precious, a little slight. It was enjoyable in large part because it came to you palms open, wide-eyed, innocent. Jewel's energy, her fire, her true worth came out during her live shows. Her performances on the traveling Lilith Fair showcased her talents and established her as a genuine phenomenon...
After the success of her first album, after Lilith, after her book of poetry became a best seller, Jewel's new release had a lot to live up to. She went through two producers, scrapped an album that was 70% done and started fresh...
Meanwhile, rock festivals like Lollapalooza, H.O.R.D.E. and Lilith Fair bring out hundreds of thousands of kids we would have once called hippies. These kids aren't self-impressed enough to make a symbol of their mere existence a la Woodstock, but the festivals are far more multiracial and gender equal than the hippie fests of yore. And if the rock fests are too mainstream, there's always Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert that brings as many as 20,000 people together to engage in conscious acts of Dadaist performance...
...what about the musical acts? How should I know? Like everyone else, I only showed up to see the Bare Naked Ladies. (After a tremendous line-up last year that reunited half of Lilith Fair, MIX stumbled badly this year, relying almost completely on the Bare Naked Ladies to draw the crowd.) And after three songs, I decided I would rather listen to them at home. At least it was dry there, and by flipping through their album cover, you can actually see them while you listen. That used to be the point of a concert...