From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V6 #652 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Tuesday, December 4 2001 Volume 06 : Number 652 * 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 news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "calendar" * . * 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 V6 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] Another Aussie tidbit ["Karacostas, Derrick W." ] [EDA] jewel lying ["now and zen girl" ] [EDA] ywmfm guitar ["now and zen girl" ] [EDA] Two articles from USA Today [maggan81@ngo.as] [EDA] This Way Aussie differences ["Karacostas, Derrick W." ] [EDA] "Cleveland Today" [Christy ] [EDA] NJC: White Elephant EDAs ["New World Warehouse" ] FW: [EDA] jewel and ben brat ["billy streeter" ] [EDA] Jewel lying ["Elizabeth Nguyen" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 01:16:40 -0600 From: "Karacostas, Derrick W." Subject: [EDA] Another Aussie tidbit This goes along with the other post I sent awhile ago about the Aussie CD (as of yet still hasn't made it to the list)...not sure which one will get through to the list first, so if you read this one first, then just wait till you get the other one then it will make more sense. :-) Anyway...something else I noticed...the title "This Way" is closer to Jewel on the US release than on the AU release. Just slightly. Derrick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 07:31:46 +0000 From: "now and zen girl" Subject: [EDA] jewel lying i think its funny people would say that jewel is lying because she tells the same story for more than one song. did anyone ever think that maybe she wrote those songs all about the same incident... like sometimes it be that way, grey matter.... and the list goes on... oh this is hilarious!! alisa - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 07:33:11 +0000 From: "now and zen girl" Subject: [EDA] ywmfm guitar im so glad other edas were happy to see the ywmfm guitar... just like i was! i also yelled OH MY GOD ITS THE YWMFM GUITAR!!!! and everyone looked at me like SO! i was like you guys this is big stuff.... they didnt get it! we edas are definately an odd bunch. alisa - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 2001 08:52:16 -0000 From: maggan81@ngo.as Subject: [EDA] Two articles from USA Today 12/04/2001 - Updated 03:09 AM ET PHOTO: Jewel's new album is getting air play on the radio (Todd Plitt, AP). - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jewel takes time out to listen to her voice By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY One of the many perks of being a pop star is that you don't have to undergo formal job evaluations. But after promoting her last CD of all-new material, 1998's Spirit, Jewel spent two years assessing her own performance — and her line of work in general. "I had lost some of that excitement I had when I first got into this business," the 27-year-old singer/songwriter explains. "So I pretty much just quit. I told my management I needed to spend some time thinking about what type of career would get me excited again." During that time, Jewel says, "I was able to sift out what parts of this job worked for me and what parts didn't. I was raised in Alaska, in the quiet, and I had always been able to hear my creative voice very clearly. "Then as I came to be in constant motion and constant saturation, it got hard to hear that voice. It's a lonely feeling when that happens. But after a year and then another year passed, I finally felt I knew what kind of record I wanted to make." That would be Jewel's new CD, This Way, which entered Billboard's album chart last week at No. 9. "Everybody said I couldn't be gone for three years and debut in the top 10," Jewel notes. "So it's been a challenge, which is kind of fun." Indeed, critics have noted that This Way finds the singer pushing herself creatively, as well, praising the album as a more mature and ambitious effort. "I think the growth that it reflects is just growing up in general," says Jewel, who also co-produced the CD with veteran boardsman Dann Huff. Jewel was only 17 when she wrote most of her debut, Pieces of You, she points out. "Ironically, I wrote some of the songs on the new record when I was 17 or 20. My work has been published since I was very young, so you're going to see a natural maturation." Spending much of her hiatus at her boyfriend's ranch in Texas helped enhance that process. "I write well when I can be alone and go really deep inside myself. I access pop culture better that way, oddly. If I just go outdoors and go for a walk, I'll write Jesus Loves You," she muses, referring to a socially conscious track that she dryly describes as "what I would write if I could write a song for Jerry Falwell." In promoting This Way, Jewel plans to use the lessons she has recently learned. "I'll work hard but tour a little less — probably in two- to four-week bursts. If it means my record won't do as well, that's the bullet I'll have to bite. I need time to write, be still and keep a balance. Otherwise, I'll lose what I love doing, and I can't let that happen. - ----- 12/04/2001 - Updated 01:09 AM ET Grown-up Jewel doesn't miss hype By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY The prospect of being considered an older woman doesn't particularly bother Jewel. If you were cute, famous and 27, it wouldn't bother you, either. What does concern the singer/songwriter is what her stature as a relative grande dame on the pop charts says about her industry. "I'm in a business that mines youth but doesn't really know how to nurture longevity," she says. Jewel isn't moaning about the barrage of boy-toy bands and underage divas who have emerged as superstars in recent years. Nor is she casting blame on the star-making machinery. "I think it's ultimately up to the artist. If you're going to have a long career, you have to constantly change and grow. You have to stick up for your muse. And you have to surround yourself with people who support that goal." These, it appears, were Jewel's mantras as she put together her first album of all-new material in three years, This Way, which arrived in November. "I was a little scared to come back," she says. "There wasn't a lot left to me by the end of my last run. I was overexposed." In fact, Jewel says, she is grateful not to be confronting the level of hype lavished on her last CD, which followed the breakthrough debut album that established the singer as an it-girl of the late '90s. "It's been much easier now that things have come down a notch," she says. "I'm able to have access again to fans. It's nice to feel fresh and open again." Certainly, it isn't lost on Jewel how much popular music has changed since her Lilith Fair heyday. "But that's life," she reasons. "You can only hear Nirvana and Soundgarden complain about feeling bad for so long before you're looking for solutions, which brings Sarah McLachlan and me along. And you can only hear about being thoughtful for so long until you want bubblegum pop. "But when it's all bubblegum, there is a faction of society that doesn't get represented. So I have noticed a restlessness lately in the public. But I don't know what will happen as a result." Jewel has found some clearer answers in her personal life, which for the past four years has included Ty Murray, a champion rodeo performer. "He's a tremendously disciplined person, and tremendously moral," Jewel says. "We have some very different political ideals, but we're also very similar. He's honest, upright, frank and direct. Fame can tolerate a prolonged adolescence among stars, but around him and his friends in Texas, you have to earn respect. And they expect to have to earn yours." The singer adds that being on Murray's ranch — she also has a home in San Diego — "is comforting because I'm able to do the things I was raised with, like riding horses and doing branding." In fact, Jewel recently told Vanity Fair that she was castrating cattle in her spare time. "But there's a season for that," she points out. "It's over now." Not that she will be at a loss for ways to stay productive in the near future. In addition to her new tour, Jewel, who made her feature-film debut two years ago in Ang Lee's Ride With the Devil, has slotted time this summer to film another movie. "I just haven't found a great script yet." And the author of two best-selling books would "like to do a slender novella of love poems. But they're going to be a little more explicit." How explicit? "Well, I'm not sure that 4-to-8-year-olds are going to buy it." Of course, there are things that a mature woman can't share with everyone. "Growing up is good," Jewel declares. "You wouldn't trade away what you've learned to be 18 again, would you? I wouldn't." - -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 00:38:21 -0600 From: "Karacostas, Derrick W." Subject: [EDA] This Way Aussie differences Haven't seen a post like this yet...so if there's been one then just disregard this one. I got a copy of the Austrailian release of This Way, and have noticed quite a few differences in the CD booklet. Some or more relevant than others, but I'll list everything I've found here for those interested, or just curious. :-) It begins with the paper itself. The AU release is on a glossy finish...the US release is non-glossy. The AU one is folded in halves, repeatedly...the US is folded left to right. The picture of Jewel on the Grey Matter lyrics page of the AU release is a mirror image of the US one. The AU version of Sometimes It Be That Way was definitely recorded at the same place as Grey Matter. The vocals sound the same, and there's no break in audience noise between the 2 tracks. (it wasn't Nashville...maybe Vermont?) Also in the production credits, it says all songs produced by Dann Huff and Jewel except tracks 13 and 14 (on the AU release), which are Grey Matter and SIBTW. Doesn't say who they *were* produced by though. On the US release, it only says track 13 wasn't produced by Dann and Jewel, so SIBTW on the US release *was*, as well as Long Slow Slide on the AU release (both of these are from Nashville) Something I found even more interesting...in the notes about the songs...the text for "The New Wild West" is *completely* different on the AU release! On the US release, as I'm sure most of you already know, it just says "I wrote this about how there is no land left to settle, and that the 'last frontier' we have left to civilize is ourselves." Compared to the AU release..."I wrote the beginning of this five years ago at the Democratic Convention and never finished it until I started making the record. One day it came back to me and I finished it on a long drive down the 377 through Texas." Quite a difference! I find it interesting she would mention the US Democratic Convention and a highway in TX on the *Austrailian* release...yet not in the US one. Of course the "no land left to settle" wouldn't really make that much sense either in an Austrailian release I guess...hehe. Another difference appears in notes about the song "Do You Want to Play?" There's an extra line in the notes in the US release. That being the "I wrote this in Tokyo." line. I guess the didn't want the Aussie's to know where she wrote it? LOL A more subtle and less significant difference is the word "Spirit" being in italics in the Note to fans on the US release. It's written in block text in the AU release. And in the notes about Grey Matter...the last sentence about it being a live recording is in parenthesis on the US release, and not on the AU one. That's about all I noticed so if anyone else has noticed any other differences, feel free to jump in! :-) Once I get the Japan version, I'll send any differences about that one too. Derrick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 23:05:24 +1300 From: Petrina So Subject: [EDA] Bearsville CD Does anyone have a copy of the Bearsville concerts on CD? I've got a copy of them on tape, but I just find it annoying having to do all of that fast-forwarding and rewinding! So, if you can lend a hand, drop me a line. Thanks, Petrina ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 03:13:57 -0800 (PST) From: Christy Subject: [EDA] "Cleveland Today" Is there anyone else in here that thinks there is a story behind these lyrics from "You're in Cleveland Today"? "But I could face the world fearlessly if you would face it here with me. Just our 4 hands and 4 eyes. Traffic cops would compromise." Just wondering. Christy the Tattoed angel ===== "Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom." -- Jewel Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 05:15:12 -0600 From: "New World Warehouse" Subject: [EDA] NJC: White Elephant EDAs Okay, I sent out the White Elephant emails to all the EDAs that signed up. We got a pretty good response, so please make sure that all of you that did sign up do what you are supposed to. Let's not have any flaky EDAs. Past that, if you signed up and didn't get an email from me, let me know and I will see what happened. Lew www.coilback.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 07:20:33 -0800 (PST) From: Mirko Serkovic Subject: [EDA] Audio files from some appearances Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone knew where I could get audio files from any of the following appearances: - - Foolish Games Live at the MTV MOVIE AWARDS - - the Jewel and Garth Brooks duet - - Stephenville Live at Austin City Limits - - Standing Still live at My VH1 Music Awards Thank you, Mirko *fan from peru* Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:58:59 -0600 From: "Karacostas, Derrick W." Subject: [EDA] CD differences AU vs. USA....Also, the CD itself is different. The image on the Aussie CD is sort of blurred and more "white", appearing to look almost like a "copy" if that makes sense. Another EDA pointed this one out to me. :-) Derrick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:15:12 -0800 From: "billy streeter" Subject: FW: [EDA] jewel and ben brat Last night at the show she told a littel story about her encounter with him and that she mistakenly called him Brad instead of Benjamin. She also said latter on she called Dave Mathews Ben, I'm not sure if that part is true or just for effect but it was a cute story. I just got home, I have a cold, and have to go to school soon so I'll post about the whole show latter on. - -Billy - ---------- >From: "jake skyles" >To: jewel@smoe.org >Subject: [EDA] jewel and ben brat >Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2001, 3:52 PM > > An interesting blurb from an article on people magazine's site, people.com , > Jewel is also the fashion focus of the day! Click on fashion and you'll see > it. > > reports PEOPLE. Jewel, eyeing the now-unattached Benjamin Bratt, quipped > sarcastically, "He was the first person I ran into when I got here. Boy, I > started off the evening really poorly." She, meanwhile, was being given a > careful once-over by Chris Isaak, who told Isaac Hayes that she was "a > looker." Isaak then went on to sum up the night's fashions: "It's all > sequins and cleavage," he observed. "As long as we can show sequins, > cleavage and filth on TV, we've won." > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:25:09 -0800 From: "Elizabeth Nguyen" Subject: [EDA] Jewel lying in an article someone posted: <> See that confuses me. It's rather funny though. So I'm not saying Jewel is lying on purpose, but perhaps her mind slips a lot. I swear she started dating Ty around the Spirit tour, so that's 99. So now it's 2001. Let's say that it's 3 years then because maybe she met him in the beginning of the year. The number just seems to keep changing, does anyone notice. I think it's funny. First, it was 2 years, then 3, now 4. hahaha. I suppose it might be 3 1/2 years, but ehhh ... I really think closer to 3 or maybe not a solid 3 just yet. Oh well. Maybe when you're in love it seems like you've been together forever. =) Elizabeth, the tennis-ball-whacking angel Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought - Shakespeare, "Hamlet" Perfect for the Jewel Kilcher Fan! Get your Free E-mail at http://jewel.zzn.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE Web and POP E-mail Service in 14 languages at http://www.zzn.com. ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V6 #652 ***************************