From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V7 #67 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Thursday, February 21 2002 Volume 07 : Number 067 * 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: ----------------- Re: [EDA] Ginny Owens and Jewel/guy duets ["Tom Hall" ] [EDA] New Jewel interview online ["Chris Groves" ] [EDA] The BEST opener ever! [ChrissyPf1@aol.com] [EDA] exclusive news.... for jewelink team [ChrissyPf1@aol.com] [EDA] Lifehouse as tour opener! [shawneyeda@juno.com] Re: [EDA] Quiz: What Jewel Song are You? ["FabioJJ" ] Re: [EDA] Jewel on Swedish radio,mystery song [Joe Eggleston Subject: Re: [EDA] Ginny Owens and Jewel/guy duets > Hey - out of curiosity how many of you EDA's like Ginny Owens? I just > love her and think she is the greatest. I thought that's cool that Tom > said he's a fan of her. There are 5 singer-songwriters who I truly believe are all genius. Jewel, John Mayer, Sarah Mclachlan, Tara Maclean and Ginny Owens. Ginny has one of the most awe-inspiring voices I have heard. And her songs are so addictive, I really can't get enough of them. If you haven't checked her out yet (where have you been?), then look out for her incredible album 'Without Condition' as well as her latest album 'Something More' which is out next month. I am beyond excited. www.ginnyowens.com Tom Fan of... John Mayer//Jewel//Sarah Mclachlan//Tara Maclean// Ginny Owens//Sublime//Ash//Sheryl Crow//Dido// mb20//Nelstar//ViewAskew//Roswell//Dark Angel// ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:25:45 +0100 From: "Tom Hall" Subject: Re: [EDA] John Mayer vs. Michelle Branch <> Two points to make here: 1. Who supported Jewel on her last tour? Rusted Root and Steve Poltz. Steve Poltz *is* well known, but only really to Jewel fans. And Rusted Root, unless I'm mistaken, are not really well-known at all. So she's not known for going for big well-known bands for support. Someone's already said she's looking for unknown bands to support her. 2. Just because you haven't heard of Mayer, doesn't mean he's unknown. He's becoming more and more popular by the second, his shows are all selling out pretty fast, more and more people rave about him on lists like this, he's appeared on a couple of TV shows now... And he was also nominated for the Gibson award for best up-and-coming guitarist, yeah the same one that Madonna was nominated for. And we all know that Madonna's nomination was all about publicity, so John walking away with that award (since he definitely deserves it) should get him even more recognition. Good to see all the praise for John on the list! I've had his 'Inside Wants Out' album for coming on 2 years now and I've been praising him ever since I got it. Good to see that I wasn't crazy :). I just hope we never see the day when John's on TRL. Cheers, Tom. Fan of... John Mayer//Jewel//Sarah Mclachlan//Tara Maclean// Ginny Owens//Sublime//Ash//Sheryl Crow//Dido// mb20//Nelstar//ViewAskew//Roswell//Dark Angel// ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 05:58:30 EST From: JeWeLsTaR386@aol.com Subject: [EDA] jewel quiz I retook the quiz today and I'm you were meant for me, foolish games,life uncommon,hands,til we run out of road,jupiter,serve the ego, standing still,daddy Love ya -Michelle I'd rather be disliked for who I am, Than liked for who I'm not-Jewel Listen to Jewel Standing Still Here http://www2.fanscape.com/jewel/streetteam/standingstillaudiord.asp ------------------------------ Date: 21 Feb 2002 11:16:13 -0000 From: maggan81@ngo.as Subject: [EDA] Jewel feature on Swedish radio P3 this morning Hi, I just heard a little Jewel feature on the Swedish radiostation, P3 this morning (10:03-11:00 POP NON STOP). The DJ talked a little about Jewel. How she lived and how she became famous. Then she broadcasted YWMFM, HANDS and SS in a row... But I missed the first 15min of the show. But I don't think it was anything about her on the first 15min. Just wanna tell you that... */Marcus Ngo, Sweden - -- Get your firstname@lastname email at http://Nameplanet.com/?su ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:34:48 -0600 From: "Foxfire" Subject: RE: [EDA] Quiz: What Jewel Song are You? WOOHOO!! Glad y'all like the quiz, I was going to post about it but I forgot (I made it :)) Mine was "Serve the Ego," and I admit it's kind of geeky to take my own quiz but oh well, guess I'm just a big geek :) Randomness: my livejournal url is http://www.livejournal.com/users/mikoto - -J "We are everyday angels, be careful with me cuz I'd like to stay that way" ~"Sensitive" Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:42:47 -0500 From: "cymbaline" Subject: Re: [EDA] John Mayer vs. Michelle Branch - ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Hall To: Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [EDA] John Mayer vs. Michelle Branch <> If someone was well-known, they wouldn't be an opener most likely (sometimes, yes.... most times, no.) because they're well known enough to headline their own tour. Openers are usually a) new bands b) up and coming artists, c) artists who aren't that well known and don't have a huge fan base wherever they go. When I saw U2 in 1997, Third Eye Blind opened. That was when they were first starting out in the mainstream... so they weren't as popular as they are now, where they can headline. When I saw John Mayer, this band called Wayne opened. Wayne's CD comes out in May.... can't wait. At Jewel, Poltz and Rusted Root opened. Poltz is mostly known to Jewel fans... and even alot of jewel fans don't know who Steve Poltz is and never heard his music. Rusted Root is mostly known to those who are into the jamband scene. They're a band who doesn't rely on radio to get popular as much as they do word of mouth. In fact I don't think I've ever heard a RR song on the radio. I love RR.... and I'm disappointed that I didn't get to see them open for Jewel... I went to the Tampa show, and that was one show they didn't open. cymbie tree hugger - -- when night falls it's dawn one must reach for. - -a. camus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:41:30 -0500 From: "Tom Browning" Subject: [EDA] Re: Atlantic Artists >----------------------- > >Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:14:50 -0600 >From: "Karacostas, Derrick W." >Subject: [EDA] Atlantic artists > >Who else is on Atlantic that one could see opening for Jewel? It's not >always the case, but many times record companies take out an up and coming >artist on their label to open for an already famous artist. So who else >with Atlantic would work well as opening for Jewel? Anyone? > Stone Temple Pilots is on Atlantic! they could tour with her! :-Q that'd be cool...but a little unrealistic. STP's in the same boat that jewel's in...released first single...never heard from again...atlantic has some problems with artists after their first single...they seem to forget about them...like jewel, i've been hearing about the second single for two or three months now...and nothing has materialized...both have had rumors that their respective singles (wonderful, this way respectively) have shot their videos and are ready to go...but nothing! they could tour together and sing about how much atlantic sucks and stuff! jewel duet on "interstate love song" ...scott weiland duet on "love me just leave me alone" ...that'd be cool...much cooled than when chester of linkin park did a duet with scott on "dead and bloated" on the family values tour...it was ok...but i'm not really a linkin park fan. hmmm...so the moral of the story is...released NEW singles Atlantic! hehe tom the "cactus" angel _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:44:20 -0000 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: [EDA] New Jewel interview online http://www.dotmusic.com/interviews/February2002/interviews24006.asp?dmlt=incl1 Chris. http://www.jewelfan.co.uk : Jewel - Pieces Of UK http://www.jewelfan.co.uk/wap/index.wml : Jewel news on your mobile phone ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:36:37 EST From: ChrissyPf1@aol.com Subject: [EDA] The BEST opener ever! Return-path: From: ChrissyPf1@aol.com Full-name: ChrissyPf1 Message-ID: <48.6f46806.29a6b433@aol.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:36:03 EST Subject: The BEST opener ever! To: cmgroves@easynet.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Hi all, This quote is from that new interview that Chris posted: "I don't really write set lists I just go off a spontaneous shows. I really love live shows, it's my favourite part of my job. I'm actually going to open for myself (at the RFH) playing solo acoustic and then they'll be an intermission and then I'll do the band stuff so we'll see how it goes." Hey, who's a better opener for Jewel than Jewel?! Also it's nice to hear her say that she doesn't really write setlists! Maybe she'll keep that up for the official tour. - ----chrissy In a message dated 2/21/02 11:47:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, cmgroves@easynet.co.uk writes: << http://www.dotmusic.com/interviews/February2002/interviews24006.asp?dmlt=incl1 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:39:13 EST From: ChrissyPf1@aol.com Subject: [EDA] exclusive news.... for jewelink team Hi, If you aren't a member of the JeweLink team, maybe you should join just for tonight, for the exclusive news... maybe it's about her next single: "Meet your fellow JeweLink Teammates and me (Colette) TOMORROW, THURSDAY, February 21st in the JeweLink Lounge chat room at 6:00pm Pacific Time/9:00pm Eastern Time. I have some exclusive news to announce!" - -- Chrissy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:07:04 -0500 From: shawneyeda@juno.com Subject: [EDA] Lifehouse as tour opener! i would love for Lifehouse to open for Jewel! their lyrics are so awesome! and Jason's voice is so beautiful! love ya, shawney the hippie angel "You can't appreciate good love Until it's too late"- Jewel ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:32:58 -0300 From: "FabioJJ" Subject: Re: [EDA] Quiz: What Jewel Song are You? I'm so happy!! i am "Hands"!! # 1 Hands # 2 Serve the Ego # 3 Jupiter # 4 Life Uncommon # 5 You Were Meant For Me # 6 Till We Run Out of Road # 7 Standing Still # 8 Foolish Games # 9 Daddy Fabio >> www.geocities.com/fabiojj <|> BRASIL <|> Jewel+Sarah << >> www.jewel.com.br <|> BRASIL <|> Fa-clube Jewel << >> www.jeweljk.com <|>JEWEL <|> official website << >> music <|> STANDING STILL <|> Jewel <|> THIS WAY << >> http://www2.fanscape.com/jewel/streetteam/standingstillaudiord.asp << - ----- Original Message ----- From: Kovacs, Mirinda To: Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: RE: [EDA] Quiz: What Jewel Song are You? > I'm "Life Uncommon" which I think is pretty cool because I love that song!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:41:52 -0300 From: "FabioJJ" Subject: Re: [EDA] Re: Atlantic Artists Stone Temple Pilots and Jewel!! That would be awesome!!! Fabio >> www.geocities.com/fabiojj <|> BRASIL <|> Jewel+Sarah << >> www.jewel.com.br <|> BRASIL <|> Fa-clube Jewel << >> www.jeweljk.com <|>JEWEL <|> official website << >> music <|> STANDING STILL <|> Jewel <|> THIS WAY << >> http://www2.fanscape.com/jewel/streetteam/standingstillaudiord.asp << - ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Browning To: Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:41 PM Subject: [EDA] Re: Atlantic Artists > >----------------------- > > > >Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:14:50 -0600 > >From: "Karacostas, Derrick W." > >Subject: [EDA] Atlantic artists > > > >Who else is on Atlantic that one could see opening for Jewel? It's not > >always the case, but many times record companies take out an up and coming > >artist on their label to open for an already famous artist. So who else > >with Atlantic would work well as opening for Jewel? Anyone? > > > > Stone Temple Pilots is on Atlantic! they could tour with her! :-Q that'd > be cool...but a little unrealistic. STP's in the same boat that jewel's > in...released first single...never heard from again...atlantic has some > problems with artists after their first single...they seem to forget about > them...like jewel, i've been hearing about the second single for two or > three months now...and nothing has materialized...both have had rumors that > their respective singles (wonderful, this way respectively) have shot their > videos and are ready to go...but nothing! > > they could tour together and sing about how much atlantic sucks and stuff! > jewel duet on "interstate love song" ...scott weiland duet on "love me just > leave me alone" ...that'd be cool...much cooled than when chester of linkin > park did a duet with scott on "dead and bloated" on the family values > tour...it was ok...but i'm not really a linkin park fan. > > hmmm...so the moral of the story is...released NEW singles Atlantic! > > hehe > > tom > the "cactus" angel > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 03:57:24 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Eggleston Subject: Re: [EDA] Jewel on Swedish radio,mystery song Hello everyone, Marcus' post reminded me of a "mystery song" I got online so it's been a lil while but it's supposesd to be a Jewel song. It was called the Swedish Lullabye or something like that, recorded at the Alte Opera House (which I then assumed was in Sweden or Switzerland and only recently learned was in Frankfurt...huh, something new every day...). So my question to everyone is, Is this really Jewel? Does anyone know the song I am talking about? Is this another cruel internet hoax like the "Wild Horses" Chantal Kri--whoever deal? And, finally, if this is a recording of Jewel, can someone tell me the lyrics. It's really pretty whoever it is. Love and Bravery, Joe "What is well planted cannot be uprooted; great wisdom comes at great cost." -- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Johns :"Battlefield doctors decide who lives and who dies everyday; it's called triage." Riddick (musing):"Hmmm, they always called it murder when I did it..." -- excerpted from the awesome movie Pitch Black Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:29:03 EST From: Fredsteve@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Article from Scotland Sunday Herald This is a really cool article from the Scotland Sunday Herald. It's a lot of stuff we've heard before but it's very well written and there's a few things that aren't part of Jewel's regular answers that she's been giving for the current album. You're a music superstar with 24 million record sales under your cowboy belt: why quit? But after her rapid rise to fame in the US, Alaskan-born Jewel Kilcher threw in the towel for two years. She explains to Graeme Virtue how her rodeo star boyfriend helped her get back in the saddle FORGET the assassination of JFK. The new defining question is: where were you on September 11? On that dislocative date, the whole world seemed glued to a television screen, attempting to glean some reason or logic out of a waking nightmare. But singer-songwriter Jewel Kilcher -- or simply Jewel, as she's better known -- experienced a delayed reaction. Camping in the wilderness of Texas with boyfriend Ty Murray, two days passed before before the 27-year-old star discovered just what had transpired. 'We were in the mountains,' she recalls, 'and it took a while to get down to where our radio would work. And because it had been going on for quite a while, nobody would quite restate or recap what had happened, so it was several hours of listening to mayhem before we realised the Pentagon had been attacked and the twin towers had fallen. It was a very surreal way to come into it.' She stops, shakes her head. 'We almost turned around and went back up the mountain.'But by then, Jewel was already involved in events. Stunned radio station programmers saw a new relevance in her song Hands -- which opens with the line 'If I could tell the world just one thing / It would be that we're all OK' -- and it became a notable musical tribute in the aftermath, often intercut with news coverage, passages from President Bush's speeches and first-person accounts from witnesses to the attacks . 'Everybody after September 11 was trying to be useful,' she says. 'People really wanted to feel useful, myself included. And it's hard to be useful in a situation like that. So I was very glad that I could be useful in some way. I was also glad that people turned to a song that talked about self-responsibility and kindness instead of a war anthem. I was surprised, because I knew that America's usual reaction in the past -- and even now -- is: gear up for war and blast the f***ers out of the universe.' She pauses. 'It's a very American mentality. And it's not always the best mentality, because it only escalates. So I was shocked that people adopted an anthem that said 'my hands are small but my will be done, and it will be a will of steadiness and righteousness.' Not revenge. How we handle the situation is everything. At least the American people really responded to it.' She laughs sadly. 'I'm not sure whether Bush listens to it every day.'That the US turned to Jewel for spiritual guidance instead of, say, cranking up Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff isn't all that surprising. In 1996 -- the year her raw, understated debut album Pieces Of You began a miraculous selling streak that only levelled out at 11 million -- the Alaskan-born singer became a poster girl for poetic reflection. With a clutch of awkward, fragile songs written when she was 18 and sleeping in a VW camper van in San Diego, this stripling took acoustic folk to a mass market. It took Bob Dylan a lot longer to make the cover of Time.Six years on, she views her initial, record-breaking success as 'just freakish'. And leaning forward on the edge of a couch in a London hotel, Kilcher certainly doesn't look like your usual Spears-esque air-brushed unit-shifter. She's beautiful, sure, cowgirl-sexy with that blonde hair, one wonky tooth and tractor-beam green eyes, but there's no discernible air of diva affectation or Colgate-smiled artifice. She apologises for speaking so quietly, before attempting to describe the difference between her and most other female singers who've sold 25 million albums. She can't do promotion all the time, she says. She needs space to write songs.'And the industry isn't really set up for that,' she says. 'They don't understand that sometimes fields need to be lie fallow to be able to grow crop again. I'm not a very good faker, I'm not a good politician. If I'm in a bad mood then apparently I'm not professional enough to hide it from you. And my label knows how shitty I get.'There's now a tentative agreement that for every three weeks of promo work Jewel puts in, she gets 10 days off. It seems to be working, although Kilcher will fly to Hamburg within the next two hours to continue the European push. But you can see why her wranglers want to protect their artist; after finishing the rounds for her second album Spirit in 1998 -- which added an attractive production sheen to Kilcher's torch songs -- they almost lost her.'I ended up getting very, very burnt out. I quit for two years.' She retreated to the central Texas ranch she sometimes shares with boyfriend Murray, a star of commensurable brightness in his own field of rodeo riding. 'The main thing that I missed was the quiet, ' she sighs. 'I was raised in a place in Alaska that was so quiet, so open and so isolated that I find that comforting. Then I could start to write again.'If she sounds homely and old-fashioned, it's probably because that's how she was raised. Brought up in the town of Homer, Alaska (pop. 4000) a tiny fishing village 250 miles south-west of Anchorage, Kilcher went without running water, electricity and a telephone line. She's described the simple life thus: 'I'd cook breakfast, milk the cow, then hitchhike to school.' She was immersed in music from the age of six, accompanying her folk duo parents as they played gigs in local bars and hotels. When she was eight, the divorced and she stayed with her father. But at 16, she followed her mother to San Diego to follow her performing dream. And that's when she heard The Beatles for the first time. She hooked up with local singer-songwriter Steve Poltz, who took on the job of dipping this backwater gal in pop culture. 'Every Monday was Jewel education day,' she laughs. 'Steve would do this Music 101 with me where he'd go, okay, this is Big Star. This is Townes Van Zandt. This is Steve Earle. This is The Beatles. This is The White Album. This is Helter Skelter. And this is what Helter Skelter means.' After a year of sleeping in her van and playing coffee shops, Kilcher built up a cult following in San Diego, and was offered a record deal. The suits expected it to sell 30,000 copies. And it was a slow burner, not even charting until 14 months later. Then things went crazy, and Jewel was set.For someone so long unfamiliar with pop culture, Kilcher has penetrated a fair amount of it since. The author of two best-selling books -- one poetry, one a collection of thoughts and vignettes -- she's also found time to star opposite Tobey Maguire in Ride With The Devil, Ang Lee's American civil war drama of 1999. But after preparing her third album in solitude, she also wanted to record it in a similarly untainted environment. So she went to Nashville.'I just wanted to get as far away as possible from the bullshit, the hype and the worry of what's cool. I wanted to make a record that sounded like how I wanted it to sound, not like bits and pieces of pop culture that seep in.'The result is This Way, the most eclectic Jewel album to date, which embraces everything from acoustic sketches to rock'n'roll blowout. Boisterous and introverted by turn, it's certainly the loudest she's ever sounded on record.'I think it's like having sex with yourself,' she says of working in the sterile environs of your average studio. 'It's a bit odd and hard and awkward.' By recording live, with a live backing band in the same room, Kilcher hopes to have captured some of the energy of her live performances. On Love Me Just Leave Me Alone, she produces an impressive rock howl.'Where I climax in that song is genuine,' she agrees. 'It's the whole band getting excited, checking each other out, rearing up. I was able to sing very loud.'She also wrote a song with her boyfriend, penned in a log cabin on New Year's Eve. They met four years ago at a bull-riding event in Denver and 32-year-old Murray, I soon discover, is actually the world's best cowboy. He's won the official title seven times. Fittingly, their song -- Til We Run Out Of Road -- deals with the world of rodeo.'He was the first to say he didn't want it to be cheesy,' she explains quickly. 'He didn't want any busting broncos. He wanted it to be about the guts of what makes him do what he does. You can't do it forever, you do it as long as you can.'But doesn't she worry about the risks?'I saw a man get killed in Albuquerque at a bull-riding. So I like Ty to call me when he's done. But I'm quite fortunate in that he is literally the best in the whole world. Maybe I take it for granted a bit, but he has a very good sense in the air. When he gets flipped, he can land on his feet.'That Kilcher herself has landed on her feet is beyond doubt. Her early, unexpected success has secured the future of her and her family -- her mother is also her manager -- and given her the chance to explore her talent and muse; she's believes fans will happily follow her This Way, that there will be time for more poetry, more acting, maybe even with her good friend Billy Bob Thornton.'He once said: there are hillbillies in Alaska, and Jewel is one of them.' And even though she laughs when she says it, Kilcher looks mighty darn proud of the fact. This Way is released February 25 on EastWest. The single Standing Still is released March 11 ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V7 #67 **************************