From: owner-jewel-digest To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V1 #60 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "jewel-digest-request@smoe.org" with "unsubscribe" as the body. jewel-digest Sunday, 18 February 1996 Volume 01 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Dar Williams Save The Linoleum, Rare Angels, etc... Text of Jewel interview in Detroit News leave first line blank! Jewel MTV interview Jewel pics MTV has finally caught on, for better or worse... Jewel interview on MTV Has Jewel ever played around here? [none] Rare Angels tape.. where do i get it? Re: MTV interview more save the linoleum requests and stuff... of course... week in rock ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Don Johnson Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 22:59 PST Subject: Dar Williams > >Hey All! >I had mentioned the beauties of Kristin Hersh's music. And I think it >was Paul Kim that mentioned a number of other musicians including >Dar Williams. [I seemed to have deleted this message, so I think it >was Paul who mentioned Dar] >Could Paul or anyone else tell me some more about Dar Williams. I have >seen advertisements for her shows but I have never actually heard her stuff. >I would appreciate any feedback! > > Thank you Angels, > > Dave DiCicco > diciccda@saber.udayton.edu Dar Williams is a marvelous singer-songwriter out of the northeast US. She is possibly the most literate of our current bumper crop of s-sw's. Her voice is pleasant but rather fragile, not a bit like Jewel. She released a CD independently a couple of years ago "The Honesty Room" which was a smash critical success and sold extremely well. It was reissued last year by the Razor N Tie label. She has just released "Mortal City" on the same label. Haven't heard it yet but I have seen her perform some of the songs on it and they were quite extraordinary. Don Johnson ------------------------------ From: Bill Fedak Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:42:48 -0500 Subject: Save The Linoleum, Rare Angels, etc... Does anyone know how I can get a copy of Save The Linoleum or Rare Angels? I would, of course, be willing to pay shipping charges to anyone who can provide me a taped copy. If anyone has an original Save the Linoleum that they would like to sell, I'd be more than happy to buy it :) Thanks all! Bill ------------------------------ From: Bill Fedak Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:53:14 -0500 Subject: Text of Jewel interview in Detroit News Her is the text of an interview/review that the Detroit News published a = couple of weeks ago. (If they wouldn't have published this, I would not = even have known about the concert!) SINGER JEWEL, 21, SWEARS SHE'LL NEVER GROW JADED By Brian McCollum If you've heard Jewel Kilcher's debut album, "Pieces of You," you = already know the 21-year-old singer-songwriter has a knack for = confidently delivered, bluntly personal expression. Jewel, as she's know professionally, is on a two-month co-headlining = tour with fellow Atlantic Records young 'un Edwin McCain. The pair will = stop by the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor for performances Wednesday. Despite the pressures of the cutthroat music business, Jewel keeps her = professional life emotionally fit by employing the same intelligent = clarity she displays in her introspective songwriting. "I don't think you should allow yourself to become jaded. There's a = choice: Just because you see ugliness doesn't mean you have to become = it, or even necessarily believe in it to wholeheartedly," she says. "I = believe that innocence isn't really something that can be lost - it's = something that should be maintained." The Alaska native talked by phone recently about: * Her upcoming album (to be recorded this spring) "The first album was very serious. It didn't really show any of my = other (traits), like my sense of humor, or my other styles of writing. = I write big band music as well as Western music, and I've been writing = for electric guitar lately. I think it'll be much more versatile, and = much more me. Musically, I've been able to catch up to what's in my = head - when I recorded the first album, I'd only been playing guitar for = about a year and a half." * Her first national touring stint "It's had ups and downs. Beauty has always been very important to me. = I don't mean physical beauty. You become what you're surrounded by, and = when you're on the road in Motel 6's everywhere, it becomes hard when = you've come from a place as beautiful as Alaska. So that took = adjusting, becuase where I found myself - my sweetness and where I wrote = from - was gone. So it's about learning how to find that center, on the = road in midst of cold, gray concrete." * The reason she makes music "You can use it to say such real things. That's beautiful, because in = my own life, I've felt so lonely, so afraid, so suffocated by my own = flesh, that I don't want other people to feel that way. And music = really helps people to feel less alone." - ----------------------- The article was accompanied by one of the stock publicity photos of = Jewel in her "55" shirt. Bill. ------------------------------ From: Jon Held Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:16:18 -0500 (EST) Subject: leave first line blank! Jewelers: There is a problem with Everyday Angels remailer(?) - it often leaves the first line blank, erases it completely. So, please, when you post, try to leave the first line blank and start typing on the second line. Thanks. -Jon Held elisheva@netaxs.com DISCLAIMER - These opoi^H^H "dang", ^H, [esc :q :qq !q "narf!" :Q! "Whaddya mean, Not an editor command?" :wq! ^C^C^C !STOP ^bye ^quit :quit! !halt ... ^w^q :!w :wq! ^D :qq!! ^STOP [HALT!...CEASE!!! "Why's it doing this?" :stopit! :wwqq!! ^Z ...DOH! ^L ^ESC STOP :bye bye bye! Hey, what's this red button dSAVING EXITING THANK YOU FOR USING EDLIN ------------------------------ From: ChasJKfan@aol.com Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:23:54 -0500 Subject: Jewel MTV interview Here's the transcript from the Jewel interview on MTV's week in rock. If anybody missed this, check it out. They show video clips of her in concert and she yodels and stuff. Cool! Chas (Tabitha) Oscar nominated actor Sean Penn has been living in an Airstream trailer on his multi-million dollar property in Los Angeles and sometimes dating twenty-one-year-old singer Jewel Kilcher, who used to live in a van in San Diego. She's just called "Jewel" on the cover of her debut album, "Pieces of You," and she's traveled an unusual road to the edge of stardom: her parents were locally noted singer-songwriters in her native Alaska, where she was raised on an 800 acre homestead with no television or even a shower. She toured with her parents from the age of six -- and after they divorced, continued touring with her father -- finally ending up in San Diego, California, where she started writing and singing the songs that first attracted attention on the local coffeehouse circuit. Alison Stewart caught Jewel's act in New York City recently and filed this report. ALISON STEWART: So, you're from Alaska, right? JEWEL KILCHER: I am. STEWART: I went to Alaska for vacation this summer. KILCHER: You did? STEWART: I did. What in your music is indicative of you growing up in Alaska? KILCHER: It's hard to separate things. I think ultimately it just gave me a lot of discipline. It gave me a strong feeling of, I guess, a serious centering. I really know myself because there weren't a lot of distractions like TV and things like that. I was raised writing. I spent a lot of time just with myself in my head or with a family that sang constantly. I've been singing in hotels and bars since I was really little. And I think more than anything, it was a lifestyle that gave me a certain optimism. STEWART: At the age of 18, Jewel moved south to San Diego, California where she got a job singing once a week at a local coffee shop. Four of the tracks on her debut album, "Pieces of You," were recorded at her coffee shop gigs. KILCHER: I'd been playing guitar for about a year and a half when I did the album, and writing songs for about a year and a half. I'm not very good. I'm much better live than I am recorded. So I just wanted it to be a real kind of honest representational time capsule of where Jewel was. That's the coffee shop I sang in, that I recorded in. And it's just kind of an honest album. It's kind of dorky but... STEWART: How do you learn to do that [yodeling] exactly? KILCHER: I was a very bored and deranged, disciplined little girl. My dad yodeled, but he wouldn't teach me because he said I was too young. And I think I did it out of spite. I just practiced constantly and I got kicked out of the 3rd grade with a note during math class saying "we appreciate Jewel's artistic endeavors but would you ask her not to yodel during math class." I still can't multiply but... STEWART: Now Sean Penn directed your video. KILCHER: Uh huh. STEWART: How does Sean Penn go about directing a video? KILCHER: I did my first video... like all of the ideas from it. And everything he does, I think he basically does all by himself. So we had two very opinionated people working on the project. We got together, and got our ideas together and ultimately you just have to turn it over and trust. And he wasn't a very hard person to trust that way. STEWART: Question du jour, the rumor mill has you guys are an item. Are you dating? KILCHER: I don't really talk about it. Next question. (Tabitha) Jewel and South Carolina singer Edwin McCain play Salt Lake City on Monday. ------------------------------ From: ChasJKfan@aol.com Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:42:15 -0500 Subject: Jewel pics My mailer supports attached files to mail. I have some REALLY good pics of Jewel(.jpg format) from the interview on MTV's Week In Rock. Does anyone know if I would be able to send them through to the people on the list if I send mail with these attached? Thanks, Chas ------------------------------ From: CJDavid@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 20:10 EST Subject: MTV has finally caught on, for better or worse... I know, long subject header but I just saw the interview. I was a liitle worried that they would make her like "Jewel - the alaskin folk singer and yodeler." Then in the intro, I thought that was what it was definitely going to be like, but it wasn't so that was pretty cool. They gave her over 3 minutes, which is a lot for that last slot. And the interview was actually good, considering it was an overview interview... So all and all I say thumbs up, the only problem is I'm not so sure that's great. This means, and I've seen it with almost all the HORDE-type bands, bigger venues and not the same kind of audience that has previously been there. In other words, more people who want to hear that one radio song, something like the rush when Blues Traveler plays "Run-around" or Tori Amos played "god" on her second tour. All this could have positive interpretations, of course, depending on if the people are actually truly into it. If they are, there could be an even better sense, but I'm not so sure I'm convinced that this is the way it willl turn. I do want to say that I'm happy for Jewel's sucess and I don't want to attack her for being popular, a trend I also saw manifest itself with a lot of the HORDE-type bands... ANyway, as usual, just my thoughts and ramblings... Peace, cj "You say the world is getting rid of her demons/ I say, 'Baby, what have you been smoking?'" ------------------------------ From: ChasJKfan@aol.com Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 13:49:01 -0500 Subject: Jewel interview on MTV Hi all, Following are the times for MTV's Week In Rock interview with Jewel. Saturday Feb 17 6:00pm est Sunday Feb 18 10:00am est Sunday Feb 18 1:30pm est Set your VCR's Chas ------------------------------ From: "Robert A. Edgar II" Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:49:55 -0600 Subject: Has Jewel ever played around here? Hello all, This is my first post to this list and I have some questions. On Jewel's current tour she seems to be going around my part of the world. I was wanting to know if she has ever played within driving distance from here (Oklahoma City). Driving distance would include Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. It of course does me no "real" good to know this information but it would at least give me the hope of a possible future visit to this area. If anyone knows of a past stop in this area or, most definetly, a planned stop in the future I would be most greatful. Thanks, Bob - -+- Robert A. Edgar II - -+- simplman@ionet.net - -+- Take your time, don't live too fast, troubles will come, - -+- and they will pass, find a woman and you'll find love. - -+- --Lynyrd Skynyrd - -+- Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, - -+- you can still change the road you're on. - -+- --Led Zepplin - -+- And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. - -+- --The Beatles ------------------------------ From: turtle Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:47:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: [none] hello all! this is my first post to the jewel mailer and just wanted to say 'greetings' to all fellow jewel fans. my one request, does anyone have a video copy of the mtv interview or the leno performance. i'd be happy to trade copies of the interview version of "who will save..." and the promo release of "you were meant for me". anyone interested in copies of those singles, send e-mail. i'd be happy to help out. see you all 'round the group! matt carroll ------------------------------ From: Truna@aol.com Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:47:35 -0500 Subject: Rare Angels tape.. where do i get it? Hey you guys, I lost the address to that person you write too to get the rare angels tape.. what was that again? Alison ------------------------------ From: Adam Thomas Heath Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:33:23 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: MTV interview On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 Hiranya@aol.com wrote: > These things are usually rebroadcast, anybody have a schedule? > We are having trouble getting it from our end. > Hiranya > It will be rebrodcast at 6p.m. Eastern tonight. (Sat) Adam ------------------------------ From: Arthur Joseph Moen Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 16:33:32 -0600 (CST) Subject: more save the linoleum requests and stuff... alright, im sure there are like four hundred thousand of these that you have all heard, but i only have Pieces of you and Rare Angels, and would absolutely LOVE anyone who could send me any others they have, i would of course provide for any money it would take for tapes, mail, whatever, i dont think i have anything worth trading, but email me and well work something out... ok! you know that picture of Jewel jumping with her coat over her head in her CD??? i absolutely love that one! why isnt it on any of the homepages??? i want to put in on mine! if i ever get to making one, but i would like even more to get itenlarged and PIP wouldnt do it, any way i can get the rights permitted to me to do it??? can you imagine that thing the size of a movie poster! well, i guess thats it, i cant remmember what else i wanted to say, so ill leave you all for now, thanx for any help, Henry ------------------------------ From: Sabra Richardson Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:39:01 -0700 (MST) Subject: of course... Well Jewelers, It wasn't bad enough that she had to come to SLC on a Monday night (school night for me), but that I had to win tickets to go and then find out two days before that I must be 21. I wrote a curt little letter to the Atlantic rep. saying that this "condition" should have been included in the contest rules on the web page or at least told to me when he called to say I won. So I am going to miss the Jewel SLC show. Does anyone know if she's been doing after-show shows like she did over the summer? 1,000 miles away and lying next to the Zephyr club, sabra - -----------------s a b r a r i c h a r d s o n b e d d e s----------------- ------------------------------ From: gvrn@ix.netcom.com (Gregory Vernon ) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:26:34 -0800 Subject: week in rock What luck! Early this afternoon, i'm flippin' through the channels, looking for somethintolerable on one of the music channels beforei begin to watch the X-Files i recorded from last night. Then, behind that Tabitha, is Jewel! So I immediately record....unfortunately this recorded over the beginning of the X-Files. Oh well, they were probably just scenes from last week (this is second of two parter). It was worth it though. Thats the first time I've ever heard Jewel yodel! :) It was soo cool! If any body knows what time crossroads airs please post it. My cable provider only gives me VH1 from sometime in the morning (not sure exactly when) till 4pm. So i never get to see it (being at work or sleeeping during the onlyu time its on). Thus I've never even seen a Jewel video! :( But I'm having someone tape it for me, if I can find out whne its on. PLEASE HELP! Thanks - -Greg ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V1 #60 **************************