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Title: Joy - Not Half Bad
Review: The first half of this Christmas album is very good. Jewel does wonderful versions of classic songs. Beginning with track 8 (Rudolph), however, this album takes a nose dive. While some reviewers consider Jewel's Rudolph a "playful" rendition, my wife and I just found it dumb (one of those tracks you just want to immediately skip over). In the second half of the album, the best songs (or parts of songs in the case of "Life Uncommon") are essentially just remixes of "Hands" and "Life Uncommon". But you can get these - and many other great songs - by just buying Jewel's Spirit CD (which is excellent). So in a nutshell, the first half of this CD gets 5 stars, while the second half knocks the total down to 2.
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