From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #24 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Friday, January 15 1999 Volume 04 : Number 024 * 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 V4 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Down so long release date (US) ["Eliot Lemoncelli" ] Entertainment Weekly! [lindes15@juno.com (Lindsey M. Babb)] NJC: Innerchange Question ["Walter Hasselbring" ] Jewel.......who she is [Karen Miller ] "Grammy in the Schools" Article [Corky08@aol.com] Re: Entertainment Weekly [MAXMOUZE@aol.com] Re: B-sides on Down So Long [Jenifer Jewel Moffett ] Jewel on TV in January ["george.snowden" ] songs poll [LuverMb20@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:20:18 PST From: "Eliot Lemoncelli" Subject: Down so long release date (US) The website has the UK release date for "Down So Long" what about U.S in the USA, any info. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:16:49 -0600 From: lindes15@juno.com (Lindsey M. Babb) Subject: Entertainment Weekly! Hey angels! Wasup??? I was on the way to school this morning and some local DJs on my fave station started talking about Jewel. Rumor is that the Entertainment Weekly truck that takes the magazines to texas (where I am) and Oklahoma! Well I knew there had to be a logical explanation for not being able to find them anywhere in Dallas! So if anybody has more than one and just feels like being my best friend today :) write me back! I'll pay money ;) Peace and love, Lindsey the Groovy Angel Lindes15@juno.com "Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:28:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Walter Hasselbring" Subject: NJC: Innerchange Question Hi, Can someone please tell me the address of what used to be InnerChange? Also, is there anything there now? My uncle is going to San Diego next month for business and vacation, and he would like to go there, even if nothing is there anymore. Thanks, Wally ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:41:21 -0500 (EST) From: Karen Miller Subject: Jewel.......who she is Hello Fellow ANgelzs I was just thinking as I saw a picture of our lady and it struck me. Why is she so pretty? I mean her beauty. She isn't a stick like Kate Moss or any super model, she is real. She is human. She has normal size thighs, she has large breast, and she had a real waist. I say these things to you not to insult her but to say to all the girls out there. SHE IS HUMAN JUST LIKE US!! because right now girls my age and older are going through really hard time and to have some one who inspires you that is human is a relief top all the supermodels with eating disorders. it is jus plaina wonderfult hing and i feel we shold stop talking about if you like eth albulm or not but just to say. Jewel, thank you for being a person who is real who knows what life is. thank you and good night holly the angel in discise ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:46:25 EST From: Corky08@aol.com Subject: "Grammy in the Schools" Article EDAs- My high school choir went to San Francisco State University to learn about the recording arts and sciences. We were given a book called the "Career Handbook" and in it is an interview with Jewel. Here it is: Sender: owner-jewel@smoe.org Precedence: bulk JEWEL Diamond in the Rough: Jewel talks about paying the price for art and career How did you go about getting the industry's attention? I didn't. I was singing in a coffee shop and got a very strong local following going, which ultimately resulted in a buzz sort of starting. Without my knowledge, record labels started coming down. The idea of [sending out] demo tapes seemed absolutely impossible. And actually, the more I learn about it, the more I think I'm right. When you send tapes to A&R people they don't necessarily get listened to. Were you surprised how quickly you gained success? It took three years on my first album. It took about a year-and-a-half for the first song to become even somewhat successful. When the song first came out, radio said it was unlistenable and unplayable. I actually didn't think it would be successful anyway. My goal was to model myself after the career of someone like Neil Young, who doesn't depend on radio success so much as and ardent following. That way he always had his creative freedom. So I just made an album that I thought would win me singer/songwriter fans, and just let them know who I was as a person, as a kid, really. They kind of accidentally became radio hits. Luckily, I had those three years to prepare for having a hit and dealing with fame. When the labels came calling, how did you go about finding management and legal representation? That all sort of just came to me. There was a band in San Diego named Rust and they had a manager named Inga, who was a first-time manager, and they said, "You got to check this girl out." Her car broke down, but she knew this secretary at Atlantic Records. So the secretary drove her down, and they both fell in love with me. The secretary ended up being my A&R Rep and Inga helped me decide on a label. My mom was also involved as my other manager, so I really had somebody on my side. For lawyers, we interviewed several and saw who else they handled. I'm a very instinctual person, I just go off a vibe. In a short time, you've gone from the relatively relaxed schedule of surfing and playing coffee houses to major tour and TV commitments. How does that change your life? How doesn't it, really? My life is completely different. I would say that touring 40 cities every 30 days and sleeping three hours a night for three years has been better than waitressing. It's very easy to start feeling sorry for myself because I never sleep, but I do feel very lucky for the chance I've been given, and I've never wanted to take it for granted because I'll end up living in my car again. Do you worry that this may all end tomorrow and you'll need something to fall back on? I did for a long time. You know, if you are really poor, its hard to come to grips with the fact that it might not be that way forever. The tendency is to kind of squirrel everything away and keep saving. I've always been smart with money and very involved in the business, I think its something everybody should do. I think its a very terrible attitude when artists think business compromises art because if you're not going to have a hands-on and creative approach to it, you're going to be controlled by it, and then it will be compromising. As far as falling back on something, this is all I wanted with my life. I was willing to die to do something that I loved. I was unwilling to live life without passion. We cannot continue to compromise our pride and our health just to survive. We have to live with passion. That's why I lived in my car. My goal was never to be famous. My real blessing is that I get to do what I love everyday and make a living at it. What sort of things should artists be aware of business-wise? Just stay in touch with your money. I see a lot of artists, as cliche as it sounds, getting money and sort of spending it immediately. Or getting one hit, or one near-hit, and thinking they don't have to work or do publicity or tour. I'm not a terribly cynical person, but don't trust anybody too much, always look into matters for yourself. When people know you're intelligent and involved in the business, they generally won't try to pull things on you. But almost everybody I've ever worked with has some sort of ulterior motive. It's just the way life is, don't take it personally or get disillusioned by it. What's the best piece of advice you ever got? I think that some good advice I was given was that the record label can be your friend, they're not an enemy. These people are really working late and busting their backs for you. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:26:01 EST From: MAXMOUZE@aol.com Subject: Re: Entertainment Weekly In a message dated 1/14/99 5:23:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, amacphee@email.msn.com writes: << And the sarcasm definitely proves that. >> Yeah, that's it exactly. What I like best about Jewel is that she's sarcastic. Some people may think "rude" and "bitchy" but I think it's cool. - -- Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:29:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jenifer Jewel Moffett Subject: Re: B-sides on Down So Long I fully agree with Julie about the B-Sides. I wish Jewel would make her unreleased songs more available. I would love to hear as many Jewel songs as possible!! I think that Tori Amos does a wonderful job of putting out B-Sides too, which I particularly love because I'm almost as big of a fan of Tori Amos as I am of Jewel! :-) Thanks to God's gift to computers, mp3s, I have most of her unreleased songs and also all of her albums. I wish I could do that with Jewel. I don't have many of her B-Sides. Mr. BB, you should tell Jewel that we would really love to hear some rarities of hers. I want as much Jewel as possibe!!!!! Jenifer Jewel *The Attitude Angel* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:11:26 -0500 From: "george.snowden" Subject: Jewel on TV in January Hello Angels I just wanted to let all of you know that Jewel will be on CNN World Beat (Canadian Special) 1/23/99. NBC Conan O Brien 1/19/99. I'll also be looking forward to trading tapes with many of you during Jewel's next world tour. http://www.tapetrading.com/lists/g/e/george.snowden@snet.net.html "The East Coast Angel", George ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:23:21 EST From: LuverMb20@aol.com Subject: songs poll I just thought of an awesome poll that I'm curious to know your responses too. I'll post the results as soon as i get enough answers. Here goes: If you could take off any one song of Spirit, and replace it with any other Jewel song, which song would you remove and what would you put on there? (I would take off Enter From the East and replace it with Angel Needs A Ride, btw.) Please email me at gusterluvr@aol.com with the subject heading Song Poll. thanks!! ~Ami ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #24 **************************