From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V4 #691 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Saturday, November 20 1999 Volume 04 : Number 691 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, 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 * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "Presence" * OR * go to the Atlantic Records site at http://www.atlantic-records.com * and go to the "On Tour" 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 fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- * Favorite Jewel Songs ["Dr. RomeAntic" ] * 3 fav jewel songs [Mdog121685@aol.com] * fav songs [Giggly1021@aol.com] * hey all, first timer here! :) ["Elly Gusette" ] * Here's The Jewel "Glamour" Articles [Jwlfan112@aol.com] * My Favortie Jewel Songs (More than 3 :-)) [Jwlfan112@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:51:32 +0100 From: "Dr. RomeAntic" Subject: * Favorite Jewel Songs Of course I can't miss this one... :)) 1. Jessica 2. Amen 3. Foolish Games 4. Sometimes It Be That Way 5. My Own Private God's Gift To Women there you go..... now I'm back to my absurdly busy lurking schedual... however I'll post again soon... *waves to Naomi* - -- Have fun and stay beautiful Dr. RomeAntic, an angel with the worst stroke of luck and a flash of silver lining ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:39:04 EST From: Mdog121685@aol.com Subject: * 3 fav jewel songs It's tough but I'd have to say: 1) I'm Sensitive 2) Sometimes It Be That Way 3) Studies in Love #12 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:11:42 EST From: Giggly1021@aol.com Subject: * fav songs This is a hard decision, but I'd have to say my absolute #1 song is Jessica. The 1st time I heard it, I cried. I also love Last Dance Rodeo, and Sometimes It Be That Way. Funny how these are all unreleased songs. My favorites from the albums are Face of Love, Absence of Fear, and Near You Always. But, I love every song I've heard. my homepage: http://www.Angelfire.com/ny3/dancingangel "But don't wander too far, My one constant star, Darkness exists, except where you are, My feet are filled with wandering, They follow your own, 'Cause everywhere you are feels like home." -Jewel, Last Dance Rodeo ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:46:58 GMT From: "Elly Gusette" Subject: * hey all, first timer here! :) hey all you angels, many of you don't know me, well, none of you know me. i'm michelle/or elly (whichever), and i've been a part of the list for a few months now, but i've never posted...until now! i love this idea of the christmas gift to jewel, and i'm sending my $ on monday, cause by then i'll have money!! woohoo! anyhoo, i just wanted to say hi to you all, and i really enjoy this list and all of the contributions eveyone makes to the world. today a few friends and i went on a walk for the homeless in DC. it felt really good to be out there doing that, 50,000 people were there, and each pledged a minimum of 10 bucks. so, wow, you can imagine how much money they raised! hmm...what else? i guess that's all i really wanted to say. oh, are there any EDA's in the northern virginia/DC area? just curiosity...anyhoo, here are my 3 fav. jewel songs:(in random order) WWSYS (all versions, especially anything live) Last Dance Rodeo and...Amen wow, that was hard considering they all are so inspirational to me. ~michelle (angel of day) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:53:07 EST From: Jwlfan112@aol.com Subject: * Here's The Jewel "Glamour" Articles Jewel's in two articles in Glamour, one for the Women Of The Year feature, and one on her. The articles really gave me a new depth of respect for her, and I learned a lot (a rarity in magazine articles), so I decided to type them up for y'all. In the first (for the Women Of The Year), the text is on top of a full-page new picture of her playing acoustic guitar on stage with a miniskirt on. Here's what it says: Jewel Musical Missionary "She's funneling 40 percent of her total income to help the needy." Singer. Songwriter. Actress. It's hard to imagine a multi-faceted creative force (at all of age 25) finding energy for more. Jewel does--flush from the success of her four million-selling sophomore CD, Spirit, and fresh off her acting debut as a Civil War bride in Ang Lee's Ride With the Devil. Last January, Jewel and her mother, Nedra, launched Higher Ground For Humanity (HGH) to fund health clinics and safe drinking water projects in Third World countries. "To have something to work for...that's a great thing," says Jewel, who donates 30 percent of her income to HGH. Her generosity may spring from her hardscrabble youth. Raised on an 800-acre Alaskan homestead, she struggled with kidney problems, dyslexia and her parents' divorce. At 18, Jewel lived in a VW bus in San Diego, subsisting on peanut butter and songwriting, when Atlantic Records scouts caught her gig at a local coffeehouse. By 1995, she had a debut CD (Pieces of You), which has sold 11 million copies. Then in 1998 came her first book (remarkably, it became a best-seller), revealing yet another facet: Jewel as poet. The second article is for Jewel, about the cover story. It has a full page close close-up of her similar to the cover (which is awesome. you can see it at www.glamour.com.) Jewel's new day jobs by Joanna Connors Here's an idea of Jewel's to-do list: Check early sales figures on my new Christmas CD; Finish writing my second book; Rope and ride with my new "cowbeau," Ty Murray; Check on charity fund-raising; and buy dress to wear to my first movie's premiere. Get the picture? Jewel's so busy these days, she barely had time to accept our Woman of the Year award! (Sidebar: Gems From Jewel) Greatest romantic hits: She's dated actor/bad boy Sean Penn, singer/good guy Steve Poltz, and soap-star-turned-rodeo-cowboy Chris Douglas. Now she's with world champ rodeo star Ty Murray. Overcoming odds: Although she struggled with dyslexia as a child, Jewel is now an avid reader. Putting her best face forward: Superstar makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin is one of Jewel's best friends, but she claims she stills does her own makeup for most of her television appearances. Take That, Grunge! Jewel's album Pieces of You sold as many copies as Nirvana's Nevermind, one of the most highly acclaimed albums ever. She's got new wheels: Jewel no longer drives her cherished VW van--her mom bought her a red Jeep Cherokee for her birthday. All strummed out: Jewel took opera classes in high school, but didn't discover her true passion--playing guitar--until 1989. At peace with teeth: "As a kid I desperately wanted my teeth done, but we just never had the money. Then you grow up and get used to it. And the idea of wearing braces now is absurd. I don't care if my teeth are straight or fixed or whatever." (Main Article) At the Four Season Hotel in Toronto on a gorgeous early autumn day, the Jewel star-making machinery is cranking. Publicists, reporters, photographers, makeup artists, hairdressers and camera crews mill about, all needing a piece of Jewel. The 25-year-old Alaskan folk rocked has come to the glitzy Toronto International Film Festival for the North American premiere of Ride With the Devil, the Civil War saga directed by Ang Lee (The Ice Storm), in which she makes her big-screen debut (the film opens nationwide this December). And today, three floors of the hotel have been turned into Jewel central. Escaping the commotion, Jewel sits cross-legged on the floor in a corner, softly strumming her guitar. Her wispy blond hair framing her serene face, she looks more like a college freshman hanging out in her dorm hallway than a movie/rock star. "If I can get five minutes by myself in between interviews, well, you know, I have to take it," she says. Time is a precious commodity for Jewel these days. Her Christmas album, Joy: A Holiday Collection, has just been released, and she's also finishing a book of essays and sketches (she received a huge $2 million advance to write the follow-up to her best-selling book of poetry, A Night Without Armor). And when she's not touring in support of her quadruple-platinum album, Spirit, or helping to run her charitable foundation, Higher Ground for Humanity (HGH), she's sneaking off to her boyfriend's ranch in Texas to practice roping and branding cattle (more on the cowboy later). Hectic as her life is, she's accustomed to the pace (although, she admits, she'd like to spend more time at her new home in Rancho Santa Fe, just north of San Diego). After all, it's been this fast since 1995, when Atlantic Records put out her first album, Pieces of You. Jewel toured "mercilessly" (her word) nationwide to support the record, doing nearly 500 shows in the year after its release. Just as her singing success was peaking, she was linked romantically to Hollywood bad boy Sean Penn, which solidified her celebrity while Pieces of You was on its way to becoming a record-industry phenomenon: It sold 11 million copies. Jewel sat down with Glamour in Toronto to take stock of her success, discuss her budding acting career and talk (just a little) about the new man in her life. Right now, she's sipping tea at a table in an empty ballroom in the hotel, wearing a rumpled, inside-out blue T-shirt and gray sweatpants. "People always ask me, 'Why do you work so hard?'" she says. "Well, after Pieces of You came out, I knew I had one shot, and it was up to me, period, to break myself [into the business]. It was up to me to get fans. I mean, I HAD to work this hard." She knew from the start of her career, at age 18, that she wanted to make more than music, so she wisely signed with a talent agency that also had film and literary departments. "Why wouldn't you want to do more than one thing?" she asks, pouring more tea. "Creativity is creativity. It's just a matter of which arm you want to use, your singing arm or your acting arm or your writing arm, whatever." After her music career took off, Jewel branched out, following the plan she'd set years before. "When Ang's movie came up, it was perfect timing for me," she says. Lee knew little about Jewel ("I'm too old," joked the 42-year-old director), but when his casting director suggested her, he immediately saw her in the role of Sue Lee, a young widow whose life is shattered by the Civil War. "She had a period upbringing and a period look. She's even got period teeth," Lee says, referring to Jewel's famously crooked smile. It was this small imperfection, in part, that made her perfect for the role. Also contributing to her allure, says Lee, was her earthy toughness--a side of Jewel that not many people are familiar with. "My dad's a cowboy," explains the singer. "I go with him to rodeos when I'm off the road, and it's like I'm not famous. It's really nice." In fact, Jewel appears to have a thing for cowboys. Last year she went out with soap-star-turned-rodeo-star Chris Douglas, 30. And it was at a Colorado rodeo earlier this year that Jewel met her current beau, 30-year-old Ty Murray, a seven-time World Champion All-Around Cowboy (he's skilled at many rodeo events, especially bareback and bull riding--hence the term "all-around") and the youngest cowboy millionaire ever. While both are super-busy with their careers, they travel with each other when possible. "The day before I got to this film festival, we were blacklegging, castrating, dehorning, eartagging, and I got to rope for the first time," she says, laughing. "It was a lot of fun." Her wrangling experience also gave her an edge that Lee found irresistible. "The first time I say her," Lee says, "I saw the power of a woman, that feminine sexual power and strength that she has. She is not saccharin--she can hold her own as the only woman in a war movie. And she has a sincerity that comes across on the screen." Rugged Beginnings The story of Jewel's rural Alaskan childhood has been told so often that it sounds like folklore--as if she were "raised by wolves," Jewel jokes. Actually, she was raised by hippie/artist/musicians who saw themselves as the last pioneers. Not long after Jewel was born in Utah, on May 23, 1974, ranch owners Atz Kilter and Nedra Carroll moved their family to an 800-acre homestead near Anchorage in Homer, Alaska. There, they brought up Jewel and her two brothers, Atz Jr. and Shane (she's the middle child), in a cabin without electricity or running water. When Jewel was eight, her parent divorced and her mom moved to Anchorage; all three kids stayed in Homer with their father. When Atz--also a folk musician in addition to his other talents--played in local bars, Jewel tagged along. As a high school sophomore, she won a scholarship to the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where she spent two years studying opera, music, drama and sculpture, and modeled for a sculpture class to make money. Her voluptuous beauty may have made the sculptors happy, but it made her feel like an outsider at the school. "Even though I was raised on a homestead, I was aware of weight [issues]," she says. "But I was lucky to have another type of role model--real earthy, hippie, round women. Then I went to Interlochen, where a lot of the girls were dance majors and everybody was bulimic. I mean, after lunch, you'd hear all the toilets flush!" After graduating, she moved to San Diego to be with her mother. She worked as a waitress, and when money got tight, she and her mom moved into their vans, often parking side-by-side at night. Jewel's unencumbered van existence allowed her to concentrate on what she really wanted in life, and she decided she would make two things: music and a difference in people's lives. The music part was easy. She got a Thursday-night gig at San Diego's Innerchange coffeehouse, and by late 1993, she was playing her songs to packed houses and adoring fans. The record industry got wind of a fresh young talent in San Diego and made the trip to check her out. Atlantic Records signed her and she was on her way, with her mother, Nedra, by her side as her comanager and, since 1998, her sole manager. The fulfill the second part of her dream, Jewel is giving 40 percent of her income to Higher Ground for Humanity, the nonprofit foundation she started one year ago with her mother, which focuses on education, alternative health and healing, and placing water filter systems in underdeveloped areas. If not for the foundation, Jewel says, "I think I would have quit [working] this year. I had too hard a time, I was too tired, and I find the constant beauty-queen-pageant, running-for-cheerleader-captain stuff about pop and rock exhausting. You're always competing to be The Girl. It's like dragging high school out for the rest of your life. God, it's absurd." But her obligations to HGH stopped her from quitting, she says. "My mom and I are partners--I have my job and she has her job. She's a brilliant businesswoman, she's amazing at setting up all that. And my job is to tour, gain capital, be creative and be happy." These days, Jewel finds happiness at her eclectically styled home in San Diego, which she shares with Nedra. "I am literally home maybe two weeks a year," explains Jewel, who, following the film festival, flew to her home to do more work on her book. "So if you want to know where my favorite place to vacation is, it wouldn't be Tahiti or the Caribbean. It would be in my own bed." Scott Evans AOL, Yahoo! IM: jwlfan112 "I said, 'this place looks sorta, uh, desolate' She said 'Are you only half-alive or have you simply always been this inarticulate?'" Jewel - "Do You Want To Play?" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:01:33 EST From: Jwlfan112@aol.com Subject: * My Favortie Jewel Songs (More than 3 :-)) Well, I'd have to make two lists.. My favorite Jewel songs right now are: Do You Want To Play? (AKA Oh-ee-oo, Ohio, Oreo) (I'm completely in love with this song.. The file from Storytellers has been played about 30 times today.. No exaggeration.. I have a quote from it in my signature..) Love Me Just Leave Me Alone (The beginning electric guitar part is addictive.. Like DYWTP, it has this chick-a-chick-a thing that rocks.. Hard to explain.. And, boy, when she lets loose on 'Why couldn't you do the same??,' she gets me every time..) I Got The Blues More Than You Do Blues (Hilarious, and I like the little guitar solo in the middle.. 'Walked to school uphill both ways.. with no legs.. Top that..' :-)) But my favorite Jewel songs of all time, the ones that have affected the most, whether it be by lyrics or something else, are: Carnivore (Such a powerful, powerful song.. I'm glad she's revived it.. '..and I take back my songs and poetry.. This time I won't be so easy to read..') Amen (When I got POY in '95 or '96, I was 10 and didn't really really listen for words, I just liked the beat of WWSYS, so I stopped listening.. But I started listening to the CD again a few years later, and the words really got me in the ending songs of POY that I never listened to.. This song in particular helped me out a lot in various personal ways.. 'In the Bible, only angels have wings, and the rest must wait to be saved') Painters (Smae scenario as above.. The story Jewel weaved in this song was amazing, and it made me cry when the dying old man was talking to the old woman.. 'Love I leave, but only a little, please try and understand.. I put my soul into this life we created with our four hands..') Everything Breaks (A bittersweet song that I listened to constantly about a year ago.. I still find it to be amazing.. 'It's hard to stare at you knowing you like I have.. I used to feel so close, now I feel so bad.. Maybe I could've loved you better, maybe you should've loved me more, maybe our hearts were just next in line, maybe everything breaks sometime..) Studies In Love #12 Louisa and Her Blue Guitar Foolish Games (I learned about Jewel when I saw her sing this with Melissa on Duets.. // Both versions.. The newer one is more aurally pleasing, but I really do miss the part they cut out from the original..) Sometimes It Be That Way ('I'm sorry I didn't always have a match that could start a fire big enough for your heart to catch'.. This song should be subtitled the EDA Anthem.. It's our song..) ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V4 #691 ***************************