From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Tue Jun 14 17:47:40 2005 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5ELknpF013614 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:46:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j5ELknWX013606 for jewel-news-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:46:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200506142146.j5ELknWX013606@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:24:35 -0300 To: jewel@smoe.org From: Fjjordao Reply-to: Fjjordao Subject: Jewel-News: New article! Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.8 (smoe.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:47:40 -0400 (EDT) http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music/article/0,1299,DRMN_54_3852595,00.html Her own road Denver first stop in Jewel's 11-show concert trek By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News June 14, 2005 When a musician achieves success, it means he or she can generally work on their own terms. So why, in the middle of recording her next album, is Jewel Kilcher going out and doing 11 shows in 12 nights across two states? Actually, that is her way of calling the shots, she says from her ranch in Texas. "I don't really enjoy having a night off in any city except where I live," she says. "I'd rather just work. My voice seems to handle it just fine. I'd rather do 14 shows in a row with no nights off, then get my time all bunched up together." If you do night-on, night-off, "it takes twice as long to do the same amount of dates. I just don't think it's very fun," she says. The marathon begins Wednesday night at the Denver Botanic Gardens, moves to Chautauqua in Boulder on Thursday, then the Telluride Bluegrass Festival on Friday. "My schedule has been kind of weird," she acknowledges "It's my last record for Atlantic under my contract. I'm not recording nonstop. I don't like to go in the studio for five months and not see daylight. I'll do five days of recording then take a couple of weeks off. It doesn't feel like homework that way." It's a time of transition in the career of the 31-year-old singer-songwriter who grew up in Alaska and went on to find fame with hits like Who Will Save Your Soul and Hands. She has to deal with the transitions of the music industry in the digital age like everyone else does. In fact, she stays slightly ahead of the curve, as she was one of the first major artists to sell instant live discs of her shows to fans. But she also has to struggle with an industry that pigeonholes artists. When Neil Young goes off on a weird tangent, that's just Neil being Neil. When Jewel made 0304 in 2003, setting her lyrics to dance grooves rather than the singer-songwriter style fans knew her for, some people flipped out. "Women in my industry have changed musically out of that premeditated, image-driven way," she says. "I don't think the industry has seen many women exploring musically." Even icons such as Joni Mitchell puzzle fans when she does something a little off the wall such as Dog Eat Dog. As for 0304, "I made a record I really like. My goal is to make my interpretation of modern dance-hall music. I imagined people crowded into bars in the '40s, during the second World War. That was the record I was looking to make," she says. "As a songwriter, it's some of the best songwriting I've ever done. There's a song on there called Haunted that's really good. . . . it reminds me of Who Will Save Your Soul." As for the reaction, "I was a little disappointed because a lot of people didn't listen to the record. I think they looked at imaging . . . and things like that and it got carried away. I was just disappointed that people didn't listen to the record, they didn't hear the songs." She does do those songs live, where they get new context. Playing solo acoustic gives her a chance to be a bit looser with the set list and the crowd. "I talk more when I'm solo. I tell more stories and goof around with the audience more," she says. New songs from the album in progress will appear as well. "I always do new stuff. That's how I'm able to tour as heavily as I do. I'm writing all the time and I'll always play a new song when I write it. I also have 400 or 500 songs in my catalog. I do obscure stuff that's not on any record but is probably pretty heavily bootlegged. I've always encouraged bootlegging. Fans request really obscure songs," she says. Fans who want to know which way the new album is going probably will be pleased it's more of her traditional singer-songwriter work. "The record is going fast. I did six songs in five days. I'll have the record done in a matter of weeks, total. I'm guessing I'll release it in the spring. I'm in no hurry. I'm enjoying my time off, just working in spurts," she says. That relaxed schedule has allowed her to develop a cartoon series for Nickelodeon called Punk Rock Angel Girl. It's still in development. "I drew her and invented the whole world and wrote the first episode," Kilcher says, but she's frustrated at the slow pace of television. "It takes forever. I work fast by myself, but working with a TV company, it starts to drag out." Mark Brown is the popular music writer. Brownm@RockyMountainNews.com From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Wed Jun 22 18:42:25 2005 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5MMgPpF004923 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j5MMgPZ5004922 for jewel-news-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200506222242.j5MMgPZ5004922@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f From: "Melissa Bruce" To: Subject: Jewel-News: concert review--Thousand Oaks (last night) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:58:18 -0700 Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.8 (smoe.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Last nights performance in the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center was a nice treat for any seasoned Jewel fan or new Jewel fan alike. She was energetic, passion filled and of course her same charming, witty self captivating the audience in song and humor. She was wearing a trendy/frayed (old/new rugged look) light-blue (denim) mini skirt with brown cowboy boots and a tan tank/cami with a satin bow tied just under the bust. She accented that with round, gold and black dangle earrings and sported a soft modern day flip (Farrah but not really) with bangs swept to her left temple. I took some pictures but I doubt they will be decent and I need to fill up the rest of the roll before developing. The set list: 1) Somewhere Over The Rainbow (acapella) 2) Near You Always 3) New Wild West She joked around by asking about whether or not the photographers had left or not because they were allowed to take pictures for only 3 songs. She said during this time she liked to sing pretty songs that make her look pretty with lots of "ooooo" sounding notes to avoid the double chin and then proceeded to joke about how Celine Dion--being as thin as she is--still manages the horrible double chin with her signature belting pose (and did this for the audience). Jewel joked about how photographers take lots of pictures but always use the bad ones accompanied by headlines saying, "Jewel badly needed to urinate, why didn't she pee before the show?" 4) Satellite She introduced this song saying she was going to sing some songs on her next album and said that she wrote this when she first came to California. 5) Goodbye Alice In Wonderland she said this was going on the new record and was "probably the most autobiographical song (she) ever wrote." At this point she started asking for requests. She commented on the "bootlegging skills" of an audience member when she requested Wolf and Dolphin (Cracker Thief!! Woo hoo!!). Someone in the first few rows requested Passing Time and she asked, "How do you know that song?" then tried to find it in hum but couldn't so she moved onto flipping someone off saying "Here's your free bird!" when asked to play the well known cover. lol 6) Hands 7) Standing Still She told her Bob Dylan story in her "valley girl" accent saying she wrote this next song on tour with Bob. 8) Sometimes It Be That Way 9) Stephenville, TX 10) Angel (Cowboy Waltz) She said this was one of the first songs she wrote for her dad 11) Cold Song she introduced this song in the normal manner she always does "I'd like to play you the best song I ever wrote..." building the audience up to think she was going to play some profoundly awesome thought provoking song--you all know how she does it. 12) Morning Song She took requests and someone yelled "Jesus loves me!" and she said with a smile in her voice, "I know." 13) Violet Eyes She took as a request from the audience. She introduced it by saying, "This is a sad song. I wrote this for my friend Jackie who died of cancer." It seemed like this song really got to her maybe because it's getting close to the anniversary of her friends passing because it seemed as though she had to hold back tears singing this song. It was a definite tear jerker. At the end she kept her head down, took a sip of tea, gathered herself and moved on. Here she did her social anxiety disorder bit joking about the Paxil commercial with someone holding hands with their mom walking on a beach, visions of kitten and the like...how she's a hypochondriac already so if she has 3 of the 10 symptoms mentioned she needs the drug: feeling uncomfortable around the in-laws, "yeah," taking longer than 60 seconds to fall asleep, "holy crap," do you breathe? "I need the drugs." She ended that part of the bit by talking about the speed-talker who talks you right out of it---"being shy around people I don't know anyway? or anal leakage?" She manages to tie in there the "super freak" fan of the year, naked with a Stephen Segal pony tail, covered in Crisco singing POY at 1/4-1/2 speed, how she's armpit height and the deep breather fan who wants to get her into his chair. She's such a silly goose. :) You all know how this goes--its a regular thing for her, but I wanted to mention it for those that haven't heard it before. 14) Intuition 15) YWMFM Hitchhiking/Kermit the frog story 16) WWSYS encore: 18) Per la Gloria D'adorarvi 19) Chime Bells As soon as she left the stage "Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer followed *blaring* from the speakers. lol That was it! Sorry this is so long, but I promised myself that I would actually go into more detail this time for those of you I have talked to and haven't that have never seen her and want the details :). I'm pretty sure I have all of the monologues mentioned from above recorded at different venues (she needs some new material! lol ;)) if anyone that has never heard them, wants to--she's pretty funny and they are worth a listen (she'd be a mushroom if she were a man *wink*) :) Take care everyone and God bless! Melissa :) ~~-~~-~~-~~-~~-~~-~~-~~-~~-~~-~~-~~ http://www.everythingbreaks.com/ From owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Wed Jun 22 18:43:45 2005 Received: from smoe.org (ident-user@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5MMhjpF005383 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by smoe.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j5MMhjDE005382 for jewel-news-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200506222243.j5MMhjDE005382@smoe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: smoe.org: majordom set sender to owner-jewel-news@smoe.org using -f Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:14:40 -0700 From: E N To: jewel@smoe.org Subject: Jewel-News: TO review ... and photos Sender: owner-jewel-news@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-Virus-Scanned: clamdscan / ClamAV version 0.60 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.8 (smoe.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Maybe it was the long drive from Riverside to the valley. Maybe I didn't get enough sleep the night before. But dang .... the show was kind of boring to me. I found myself yawning a few times. She also did not sing ONE single "new" song all night. What a bummer. I also have to admit, her vocal abilities were still good. I was just bored. I can't really place why. Melissa already posted the set list, so I won't do it again. I'll just comment on a few songs. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: I haven't heard that live before, so that was a treat. I really liked that. Satellite: I haven't heard that one live before either. That sounded great and the audience thought it was funny/clever. The second time she asked for requests, I would like to think it was me she heard. I waited for the audience to quiet down and requested "Violet Eyes." Then someone else seconded that. So, I think it was me she heard. Not sure of course. But in my mind, it will be me ;-) I agree with Melissa. I think it was one of the most emotional performances of the song. It really did seem like she was holding back tears. And some parts, sounded choked up. It was a great performance. I mean, overall,a Jewel show is always great. Maybe I was bothred by the 13 year old girls next to me who kept sitting on each other and whispering. I just didn't enjoy the show like I normally would. Hehe. Weird? Hope everyone enjoys the upcoming shows! Oh, yeah, and pictures ... they are kind of far away since I was in Row J. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/porkch0p31/album?.dir=/4d06&.src=ph ~Elizabeth