From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #654 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Tuesday, November 24 1998 Volume 03 : Number 654 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Jewel tour dates, go to: * http://jewel.zoonation.com and click on "TOUR" * OR * go to the OFFICIAL Jewel home page at http://www.jeweljk.com * and go to the "What, When, Where" section * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jewel on TODAY show among other TV appearances ["Eliot Lemoncelli" ] NJC: Israeli Eda gathering. ["Abby Greif" ] EDA help center ["Abby Greif" ] Jewel in German magazine [Marian Veselcic ] Full text of Spirit/Jewel articles in USA Today [Mike Connell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 05:03:48 PST From: "Eliot Lemoncelli" Subject: Jewel on TODAY show among other TV appearances This was posted on the Atlantic Records website. After reading this you may want to set your VCR. Jewel To Serenade The TODAY Show, Friday, Nov. 27th JEWEL will make an appearance on this Friday's edition of NBC's "TODAY" show, as part of their outdoor concert series. Jewel and her band will perform her new hit single, "Hands," along with two other songs -- to be announced. We understand that Jewel has a very special surprise in store for the appearance, so don't miss this! Other upcoming Jewel appearances include the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting, which will air live on NBC December 2nd and -- the same day -- an appearance that morning on ABC-TV's "Live With Regis And Kathie Lee." In addition, Jewel is scheduled to appear on ABC-TV's "The View," December 16th. Jewel's sophomore album, SPIRIT, was released last week. Eliot ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:36:36 +1000 From: Louise Subject: Big Jewel pic in Who Weekly!!! Spirit review also Hey Aussie EDA'S, As far as i know we're the only ones who get Who Weekly so I'm rtelling you guys. In the Nov 30, Special Issue of Who Weekly with Jennifer Love Hewitt on the cover has an A4 pic of Jewel at the front of the Picks & Pans section. It's a gorgeous pic of her the writing says "That's the Spirit: Jewel shines on her follow-up to Pieces Of You. She either looks really angry or about to cry, i can't tell... The review... It's hard not to be sarcastic about Jewel-she is just so po-faced and earnest. But block out the more clanging lyrics and just listen to the voice, set against her picked acoustic guitar and sighing pedal steel, and the atmosphere is quite tingling indeed. At her best, you have to compare Jewel with the likes of Emmylou Harris and Rickie Lee Jones. When she dips out, boho hippie-chicks such as Edie Brickell and Lisa Loeb come to mind. One other problem is that the two extra tracks overshadow the rest of the album-an acapella duet with her mother and a remarkable live version of her hit "Who Will Save Your Soul" show what she can do when she gets less precious. Grade: B Ok so the review kinda sux but the picture is awesome :) Take care my Angels Louise, "one of the kindest Angels" "In the end only kindness matters" - Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:57:16 -0500 From: Sean Aron Subject: Spirit review at cnn.com There's a review of Spirit on cnn.com. The link is above the entertainment section, or you can simply go here: http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9811/23/review.jewel/ Peace, - -s ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 05:43:24 PST From: "Abby Greif" Subject: NJC: Israeli Eda gathering. Hey to all israeli angels out there! I was thinking, since there seem to be quite a lot of us now, that we should have ourselves a gathering, get to know each other, trade tapes, etc... If you guys are interested, Email me, and We'll see what happens :) Loads of love, Abby. A rare angel lost among you {\o/} /_\ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ dance like no one is watching,& love like you've never been hurt. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 08:04:50 PST From: "Abby Greif" Subject: EDA help center Hey EDA's. As I've said before, I'll be posting this every once in a while, as a reminder. Any Eda, especially newbies, who have any Jewel/list related questions are welcome to write the Edacebter@hotmail.com And have their questions answered. Please, use this service if you need to, that's what it's there for. Loads of love, Abby. A rare angel lost among you {\o/} /_\ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ dance like no one is watching,& love like you've never been hurt. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:54:16 +0100 From: Marian Veselcic Subject: Jewel in German magazine Hi fello EDAs Some new Jewel news from Germany. Today at University during lunchtime they were passing out some flyers from eastwest records. It was the first time I was getting some music information at University anyway and they were about Jewel's new Album. It mentioned that her CD'll be CD of the month December in WOM magazine (a free magazine in music stores here in Germany). So if you have access to this magazine take it :-) On this flyer there was also a question. If you can answer on which position 'Hands' is on 'Spirit' you can win a backstage meeting with Jewel in February 1999 at her concert. So maybe you can find one of these and give it a try. Take care Marian A German EDA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:09:23 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Full text of Spirit/Jewel articles in USA Today Here's the full text of the three online articles on todays' USA Today online page (two of the articles were in the paper edition, on page 8 of the Life section) Nice new pictures at these pages: http://www.usatoday.com/life/lfront.htm http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/lmds418.htm Mike :-) Article one: ************ Jewel's semiprecious 'Spirit' still sparkles NEW YORK — Three years after MTV polished a perfect Jewel out of Pieces of You, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter and poet returns to the pop charts with her follow-up album Spirit. Initially she entered the studio intent on deviating from her soft soprano melodies. But after eight weeks of recordings, Jewel's Thanksgiving release is as sweet and familiar as pumpkin pie. While Jewel hopes Spirit reflects creative and emotional growth, the new material doesn't present a significant shift in style or attitude. However her girlish voice is backed by a spirited band and a savvy producer, Patrick Leonard, renowned for his collaborations with Madonna. Article two: ************ Jewel, Spirit ( 3 stars - out of four): The reigning diva of hippie folk-pop reveals her multifaceted side in this tasteful setting, a refinement of the rough-and-tumble debut that vaulted her to fame. With its billowy pop melodies and lilting vocals, Spirit could hijack the masses. But it's not 1995's Pieces of You re-pieced. Jewel's slightly twangy singing is more nuanced and her songwriting more sophisticated. She's enlisted a spirited band and a savvy producer, Patrick Leonard, renowned for his collaborations with Madonna. In a sweet, girlish voice that projects vulnerability (and, less convincingly, wisdom), Jewel effuses hope and encouragement on New Age sermons such as Deep Water, Life Uncommon and first single Hands. On close inspection, this gem has its flaws. Jewel's gentle musings can turn shrill, self-conscious and annoyingly naive. But at 24, she's entitled to the blind optimism and inspiring mantras at the core of Spirit. Article three: ************** Jewel goes where 'Spirit' moves her NEW YORK — Spirit, the eagerly awaited sophomore album from multiplatinum-selling artist Jewel, could have been a gritty, rock-flavored, radical departure from her 1995 debut, Pieces of You. And it nearly became a Christmas album. Over herbal tea in her midtown Manhattan hotel suite, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter explains she made her first stab at a second album more than two years ago — a project called off after only a few weeks in the studio, when it became obvious that Pieces, now a worldwide 10-million seller, would have a lot more staying power than was initially anticipated. For this short-lived venture, Jewel had recruited some veteran rock session musicians to help her make a grittier, more muscular album than Pieces, which consisted of songs she had written while still a teenager. "My first album was like student art — it wasn't meant to be sold in galleries," says Jewel, who drops metaphors the way other young stars drop names. "When it ended up being a hit, it was like an alley dog winning the Westminster dog show." If Pieces of You was a surprise success story, it wasn't one that happened overnight. Prior to being signed by Atlantic Records in 1994, Alaska native Jewel Kilcher lived out of a Volkswagen van in San Diego and struggled to support herself by waiting tables and performing in a coffee shop. Then, after Pieces was released, the singer toured relentlessly for about 18 months — covering, she estimates, "15,000 miles every four weeks" — before her softly glowing debut single, Who Will Save Your Soul, began climbing the charts. With her delicate soprano voice, tender lyrics and mellow, mostly acoustic arrangements, Jewel was perhaps more comfortably accessible to mainstream audiences than some of the edgier young female artists who helped make "women in rock" a media phenomenon in 1996 and 1997 — Fiona Apple, for instance, or even that commercial behemoth Alanis Morissette. Some critics may have panned Jewel's lyrics as overly earnest or naive, but fans praised her straightforward warmth and sincerity. Granted, it didn't hurt that Jewel's wholesome, blonde good looks appealed to MTV and VH1 viewers, or that she was linked romantically to Sean Penn, who directed the video for her second hit, You Were Meant for Me. Pieces yielded a third hit, the ballad Foolish Games, and landed Jewel on the covers of both Time and Rolling Stone. NOTE FROM MIKE: to those who do not know, there were TWO videos of You Were Meant For Me. The first one was directed by Sean Penn and is rarely seen (I've never seen it). The second one, the one most of you have seen, was directed by Laurence (sp?) Carroll, who is no releation to Jewel's mother Lenedra Carroll. Junking the rebuttals When Jewel prepared to re-enter the studio earlier this year, she realized that the songs she'd written for the aborted 1996 follow-up "were catered to rebutting the criticism I'd gotten in the press — which is a really weak way to make a record." So instead, Jewel did what her fans would no doubt have wanted her to do: She followed her heart. "At first, I was gonna do an album of spirit-of-Christmas stuff," she says. "Then I thought, what is the spirit of Christmas — and why is it just for Christmas? . . . It became this question of spirituality. Spirituality is all aspects of being human. How do you have courage? How do you love yourself when you don't live up to your own standards? How do you stop feeling bad when feeling bad is all you've ever done?" According to Atlantic executive vice president and general manager Ron Shapiro, one of her early champions, Jewel turned such reflections into product with unusual swiftness. Shapiro says the label had been gearing up for a new album from Jewel in 1999, when the singer called him up last spring and said she would have it completed sooner. "It wasn't some corporate fourth-quarter thing," says Shapiro, alluding to labels' desire for high-profile autumn releases. "This incredibly driven woman . . . wrote this incredibly moving, sonically pleasing, brilliant album, recorded it in eight weeks, and delivered it for Thanksgiving." While Jewel describes Spirit as a more personal album than Pieces of You, and hopes it reflects creative and emotional growth, the new material doesn't present a significant shift in style or attitude. Produced by Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard — whom Jewel chose after interviewing numerous boardsmen "because he was the only one who understood the album's theme and wasn't afraid of it" — Spirit is full of spare, sweetly folky tunes that promote love, faith and positive action. On the first single, Hands, which Jewel co-wrote with Leonard, the singer rejects apathy and cynicism. Discussing the song's message, Jewel uses firm, somewhat studied language, sounding — as she often does — like a cross between a self-help guru and an eager young schoolteacher. "When you're down and out, cynicism is a luxury you can't afford," she says. "There are two kinds of optimism: blind optimism, which is denial, and informed optimism, which is what somebody like Martin Luther King represented. He never let himself despair; he said, I will persevere and I will win, and I will kick ass. That's intelligent optimism." Fierce competition The question industry insiders may ask is whether sales for Spirit will vindicate Jewel's intelligent optimism. In addition to being the follow-up to a successful breakthrough album, Spirit is facing a market saturated with superstar releases. Morissette's sophomore U.S. album preceded it by two weeks, while the day of Spirit's release, Nov. 17, also saw new entries by Garth Brooks and Whitney Houston, as well as Mariah Carey's greatest-hits package and The Prince of Egypt soundtrack. Turbulent youth In conversation, at least, Jewel herself seems to empathize most with her younger fans. Her own youth, she says, was turbulent: Her parents, who also sang, split up when she was 8. Jewel, the second of three children, lived for a while with her father, Atz Kilcher, with whom she performed in Alaskan bars, before reuniting with her mother, Nedra Carroll, now Jewel's manager. (Spirit is dedicated to Carroll.) In addition, Jewel struggled with dyslexia and adolescent insecurity. Before she started writing songs, Jewel turned to poetry as an emotional outlet; last May, a collection of her poems, titled a night without armor, quickly became a bestseller. (The anthology inspired a parody, titled a night without armor II: the revenge; Jewel says she hasn't seen it, but she isn't offended by the concept. "A friend of mine said that I would like it — it's fun.") "I wanted to do something that would let kids know who I am, and what I thought about when I was growing up," Jewel says. "Even though the first stuff I wrote wasn't great, it shows a process I went through — being disillusioned by love, coming to terms with my sexuality. . . . That way, kids can go, 'Wow — she was just as confused as I am!' "To tell you the truth, I make decisions based on how I felt when I was a little girl. I remember I couldn't look at magazines because I never saw (women with) my body type or nose or teeth. I still can't look at magazines like Vogue, or watch certain movies." Of course, Jewel herself is now a cover girl, and she just filmed her first movie role, as a Civil War bride in the upcoming drama Ride With the Devil. But she seems a bit conflicted about how to handle her status as a fledgling celebrity and sex symbol. She'll stress the need for keeping her private life private but will reveal she has a new boyfriend, "a cowboy from Montana." (Jewel is currently based in San Diego; they travel to visit each other.) She'll lament the way other actresses and female singers bare their breasts to sell magazines, but the ribbed tank top she modeled for Rolling Stone left little to the imagination. Then again, Jewel would be the first to admit that she's still learning to be a public figure — just as she's still learning to be an artist. "I'm a person who's trying to get her chops down," the singer smiles. "I'm not always gonna make the right decision. But every decision I've made has been about how to keep creating good art, and the best way not to do that is to create in order to please outside opinion. All I can do is be honest. Beyond that, it's up to the graces of whatever." By Elysa Gardner, Special for USA TODAY ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:20:24 EST From: CHERuBUG2@aol.com Subject: Re: Down So Long sounding like Tom Petty I personally think that the beginning of Down So Long sounds like Shawn Colvins "Sunny Came Home".... i don't really remember the Tom Petty song you're all talking about but to me it sounds more like S. Colvin :) Michele ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:49:05 -1000 From: Brent Masao Anbe Subject: Jewel Background at MTV Online Just wanted to let you guys know that MTV Online's main page has a beautiful wall paper of Jewel as it's background. I have no idea why though. It's nice anyway. It's at http://www.mtv.com Also does anyone remember when they are having that special MTV 1515 with the top sellers from super tuesday? Thanks Brent ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #654 ***************************