From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V3 #525 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Friday, October 9 1998 Volume 03 : Number 525 * 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 RA of the month at Jewel Standing By! [Rhino ] NJC: Shawn Mullins [sesykes@juno.com (Shock Jock)] re: apprehension [PrncGrace@aol.com] Hands (does anyone ever talk about anyone else these days?) ["Tom Hall" <] In-Depth Critique on Hands! (Longish) [Rhino ] Re: amen ... again ["chris braniff" ] NJC: Open Db tuning.. [Steve Hodgson ] EDA questions (EDAF questions too) [YPSheh@aol.com] Billboard Online article on Jewel/Spirit [np ] Full text of Billboard article [Mike Connell ] MrBB-Lotsa NEW Jewel news [ABershaw@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:57:12 -0700 From: Rhino Subject: Jewel RA of the month at Jewel Standing By! Hi peeps, Ok, I'm sorry I'm a bit late on the Real Audio of the month thing on Jewel Standing By. This month's Real Audio is "Enter From The East", which consequently is on the new album! So here's a chance for those of you who haven't heard the "classic" version to get the scoop before you hear the "real thing". :) Fly on over to: http://fly.to/jewel.jk Click on "Real Audio of the Month", and enjoy! It's a beautiful song with mesmerizing lyrics (oh sentimental me...lol) :) Also, there are still Real Audios left from the last two months (that's as far back as I'll go) on the page. Keep smiling, Ryan The jagged little angel "I'd just like to say... I hate f*#kin Valentine's Day!" -Jewel - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------- Jewel Standing By Rhino's Domain http://fly.to/jewel.jk http://www.infomagic.com/~doskocil/rhino/rhino.html ICQ# : 19501801 AOL Instant Messenger: RhinoDosky - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:42:12 -0500 From: sesykes@juno.com (Shock Jock) Subject: NJC: Shawn Mullins Hey Angels, This is a must. There is a new artist out named Shawn Mullins. He has a single out called "Lull-a-bye" or "rock-a-bye." It is a must get CD! He has the sounds of Jewel and Steve Poltz in his songs! He as a great love for life and music which makes the words that much sweeter! This is a must checkout CD! MTV gave him a 5 on his CD, 5 being the best! ** Scott S.** -Big Sexy Angel "PEACE CAN BECOME US ALL IF WE STAND UP AND TAKE A FALL!" http://homepage.usr.com/b/breezemaker ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:34:01 EDT From: PrncGrace@aol.com Subject: re: apprehension Wow, I just realized that I have been on this list for over a year and never posted. Well, I guess a mention of Madonna is enough to draw me out from lurkdom:) Anyway, this was the part that I had to respond to: <> This is really far from the case with Patrick Leonard's work. He worked with Madonna on the True Blue and Like a Prayer albums(Plus songs on Ray of Light: Skin, Power of Goodbye, and a few others) His work is far from the reverb- laden drum machine snare music. He worked with Madonna on some of her most touching and beautiful songs. He co- wrote and produced songs like Live to Tell, Oh Father, and, my personal favorite, Promise to Try. I think that these songs display a style that could be very compatible with Jewel's. This is not a flame, I just felt the need to express my opinion. Nicole, Princess of Nowhere P.S. Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. I've been a huge Madonna fan since I was 4. "Will she see me cry when I stumble and fall? Does she hear my voice in the night when I call?"-Madonna ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:55:39 +0100 From: "Tom Hall" Subject: Hands (does anyone ever talk about anyone else these days?) Hey guys Well, I'm gonna disagree with a few of you and say that the "over"production is this song is fantastic. One of the best Jewel songs I've heard! And that of course makes it one of the best songs in the world =) Another thing I want to disagree on is that this song is gonna be cool live! Yep, I think it is! It's gonna have a wonderful raw sound without the production and it's gonna be great. Personally, I can't wait for the new album, and if the tracks I haven't heard on it are anything like "Hands" I'm going to go wild when I hear it! See you later guys Tom The Pink Lemonade Angel ******************************************* jeweljk@csi.com SaVaGe GaRdEn'S uNiVeRsE www.angelfire.com/pa/universe19/ ******************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:16:18 -0700 From: Rhino Subject: In-Depth Critique on Hands! (Longish) Hi peeps, I know, I know, I've posted WAY too much lately. But I just HAD to. I heard "Hands" today! I thought when I posted I wouldn't sound all sappy and gushing, but here it comes... wow. My heart was beating so fast when I heard it! I was stoked!! It was really beautiful! Honestly, I have to say I thought I would be disappointed by it, because everyone's been building it up so much. But I was actually more impressed than I had thought initially. Ok, so now I'm gonna give you all an in-depth critique on this marvelous song so you can say (if you wanna) that there was a reason for reading this. I've taken many boring music classes, so I know this stuff.. :) "Hands" starts out with a cheerful little piano riff, followed by an accompanying flute or wind marimba (I can't be sure exactly, I'm not an EXPERT!). Jewel's voice chimes in softly a few seconds later, kind of that youthful-spirited-breathy voice she sings in most often during songs like "Fragile Flame". After the first few lines a guitar (maybe Jewel's? gotta be, she's got those harmonic chords in almost every song :) ) starts, followed by the chorus. The tempo is moderate, and the song is very upbeat for Jewel (much more so than Foolish Games or Who Will Save Your Soul, contrary to previous opinions). During the choruses Jewel's voice changes a bit, and it sounds almost like an Irish or Gaelic style. After the first chorus a drumbeat and a bit of electric guitar start. In the bridge we hear layered voices singing "in the end kindness matters". Then we get that lonely piano riff again with the electric guitar (the "Tori Amos" quality some people heard), and she sounds almost enraptured for a line or two (I will get down on my knees, and I will pray...), then we go back to full instrumentation for another chorus, and it rounds off nicely with the whispery "We are... God's hands... God's eyes... God's hands... We are... God's eyes..." lines. Total time is about 3 minutes and 35 seconds. The melody is strophic, which is pretty much a given in the "Jewel Genre" (say that 5 times really fast!), and it is very conjunct and consonant. Way to go Jewel! Just wait to you all hear it!!!! Remember, sometimes you don't like a song the first time you hear it, but after a few listens it grows on you emphatically! This one stuck to me on the first round, but we're all different. As for all the people crapping about it being too commercialized, and Jewel "selling out", I think you're sorely mistaken. Are you talking about the same Jewel I am?? It sounds very much like Jewel's style and artistic talents. "Pieces Of You" was very sketchy and amateurish, which reflected where Jewel was at the time. She was just starting out musically, and said herself that she just sang better live than in the studio (which is fine, don't get me wrong). Now after years of applying herself, she can finally give us her music fully realized, with the complete menagerie of technology and skills that are now at her fingertips. It's like giving an artist a dull pencil and sticking him/her in a room and saying "give me a masterpiece!". Obviously you're going to get some great work no matter what they have to work with, but give them a box of colored pencils, some acrylic paints, charcoal, maybe an eraser (*wink*), and you'll get that same great work but a much more fully realized, vibrant, breathtaking masterpiece. I hope you don't take this as a flaming, peeps, it's just my pushy 2 cents worth.. :) I'm glad I finally got to hear it (although I can't divulge where on the list, because I'm not allowed).. :) ~Gets down from his soapbox~ Keep smiling, :) Ryan The jagged little angel "My hands are small I know... but they're... not yours they are my own..." - -Jewel, "Hands" - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------------------------- Jewel Standing By Rhino's Domain http://fly.to/jewel.jk http://www.infomagic.com/~doskocil/rhino/rhino.html ICQ# : 19501801 AOL Instant Messenger: RhinoDosky - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:14:59 PDT From: "chris braniff" Subject: Re: amen ... again >I know we were just talking about this a few weeks back but to >ressurect a massacred subject ... what do you think the forest fire >symbolizes in "AMEN?" i think it directly refers to heroin because the lyrics are "a forest fire nibbles at your vein crawls up your arm runs away with your mind and burns dry thoughts like leaves" heroin is injected into the vein works its way through your system and "runs away with your mind" as for burning dry thoughts like leaves i guess it couldbe erasing memories or preventing the thought of any thing but heroin. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 11:12:27 -0500 From: Steve Hodgson Subject: NJC: Open Db tuning.. Can someone please tell me how to do Open Db tuning on a 6 string guitar? I'm trying to play Near You Always. Thanks, Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:41:16 EDT From: YPSheh@aol.com Subject: EDA questions (EDAF questions too) Hey all, My name is Stephanie and I'm a writer. For the next issue of a magazine that I write for we wanted to do a piece on charities done in in Jewel's name. I do have some questions. If you can please take some time to e-mail me your answers YPSheh@aol.com I may even use some of your quotes. Of if you want to take time to call me I can interview you over the phone. My number is 310-208-0645. Here are some questions that I have: 1)Is there an official organized group of fans that do charity work or do the fans just post their acts of kindness? 2)Have the fans ever organized an event together? 3)What are some of the most impressive acts? 4)How did the idea or history of the concept of doing charity in Jewel's name come about? 5)When did it start? Thank you so much. I look forward to hearing from you. Stephanie Sheh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:59:00 -0800 From: np Subject: Billboard Online article on Jewel/Spirit Hey! There's a great artist feature article on Jewel and the new album at Billboard Online. I recommend it for y'all:) http://www.billboard.com/feature/jewel.html Love, Nik - an Aspiring Angel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 19:06:09 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: Full text of Billboard article here's the full text of that Billboard article. Of course, there's some of the usual date errors in there. ("Hands" already out to radio etc.) Mike :-) Jewel Refines Her Musical 'Spirit' BY CHUCK TAYLOR NEW YORK -- When Jewel's "Pieces Of You" was quietly released by Atlantic Records four years ago, both the label and the artist regarded it as a "little" project to support her endless stream of promotional touring. That was 10 million albums ago. And for Jewel, a seeming lifetime past. With the Nov. 17 release of her sophomore set "Spirit," the 24-year-old singer/songwriter at last has the chance to show it off the way she wants, after a string of achievements that at times made it seem like "Pieces" might just go on forever. The album spawned three tenacious hits, "Who Will Save Your Soul," "You Were Meant For Me," and "Foolish Games." By the time the latter two singles were released, Jewel was so displeased with the girlish vocals she'd first recorded that she insisted -- tearfully, it's been suggested -- on re-singing them for the radio versions. It was like that for nearly two years, as if Jewel felt she had to cover her tracks to prove that she'd grown as a musician and singer who had walked far down the road since recording "Pieces" when she was just 19. " 'Pieces Of You' I wrote accidentally. I didn't think it was anything," she says. "I wasn't comfortable with myself as a writer or as a musician. Now, after I've been out for four or five years, I've sort of mellowed out. I'm not as scared as I used to be." With her second effort, the singer/songwriter teamed with Madonna production maestro Patrick Leonard, the only one of 15 proposed producers whom Jewel green-lighted. His mission was to protect her folk/rock roots while incorporating the right blend of instrumentation to make her music more melodically ample and better suited to the demands of playing large live venues. The 13-track result is a divine marriage of smart, enterprising sounds that cradle Jewel's impressionable emotional base while broadening her modern-tinged pop savvy. Lyrically, the album demonstrates the difference between a girl and a woman. There's a unity not found on "Pieces," and while the artist remains fraught with vulnerability and sometimes dissatisfaction, this time she's not content to wallow in it. "I knew exactly what I wanted to do with this record and what I wanted it to do to people," says the artist, who is managed by Nedra Carroll (her mother). "I've felt tremendously lonely and afraid and all the things we feel, rational or irrational. There's no use for it. I wanted to write a record that was an antidote to all the things that made me worry in the world, so that it's comforting somehow." The first single, "Hands," demonstrates a will to empathize. The midtempo, piano-driven track offers a call for hope in seemingly desperate times: "If I could tell the world just one thing/It would be that we're all OK/And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful/And useless in times like these/I won't be made useless/I won't be idle with despair/I will gather myself around my faith/For light does the darkness most fear." A video, directed by Nick Brandt, is being shot for the song Oct. 11-12 in Los Angeles. The song arrives at radio Oct. 16. There are no current plans for a commercial single. Aside from the track, Atlantic is already pointing toward several other potential singles, including "Jupiter," an organic tome to steadfast love ("You make me so crazy, baby/Could swallow the moon"); "Innocence Maintained," on protecting purity in a harsh world; and "What's Simple Is True," a beautiful back-porch yarn of true love. To up the ante, the label is blanketing the nation with Jewel, including cover stories in Rolling Stone and Vogue and appearances on "Saturday Night Live" Nov. 14, "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" Nov. 16, "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" Nov. 19, and "Late Show With David Letterman" by early December. She'll also perform at the lighting of the Christmas tree at New York's Rockefeller Center, which NBC airs live across the country Dec. 2. In addition, her schedule includes European promotion in January, Australia and New Zealand in February, then a short U.S. tour that leads up to the release of her first film role, in the Ang Lee-directed "Absence Of Fear." Jewel plays an 18-year-old Civil War hero, very much of the earth, she says. The otherwise all-male cast includes Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich. Jewel had already sidestepped music with "A Night Without Armor," a book of poetry published this past summer by HarperCollins, which rocketed to the top 10 of The New York Times nonfiction best seller list after she appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." In its 15th printing, it has shipped nearly 311,000 units. "With the album, I felt that what people perceived of me was very limited," she says. "With the book, I got to talk about where I grew up and how my mind perceives things and people. " And as for living the risks of leaving the cocoon of music, she adds, "I figure if I'm not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:13:46 EDT From: ABershaw@aol.com Subject: MrBB-Lotsa NEW Jewel news Hi all, Lotsa stuff here, most of it new. PLEASE, from years of experience here, I know a lot of this will simply raise more obvious questions, but rest assured, as the answers become available, I will post them. I'm simply relaying some of this info to you "way in advance", because I'm being inundated with the same questions & so you can stay on top of things accurately. Be patient & all additional info will get to you with time to spare! :-) I'll also address various specific EDA questions throughout this longwinded post, including a lot of stuff that International EDAs want to know. OK, in no logical order, here we go.... For all the Asian & Australian EDAs, you'll be happy to know the release date for Jewel's 2nd album "Spirit" is the same as everywhere. The release date is also Tuesday, November 17th. It may be in stores a day or two either way, but that is the release date WORLDWIDE. The commercial release date for the single of "Hands" has not been announced, but there will definitely be a European release & they may get a single (in stores) before the United States. I'm not sure about North America, Australia or Asian countries, but I'll keep you informed as more info becomes available. If they do release "Hands" singles in various International markets, they may have extra live cuts exclusive to the country of release. I also found out that a limited edition 2 record vinyl set of "Spirit" is planned. I do not know if it will contain anything extra & I have no other release info other than it is definitely planned. Jewel Merchandise questions.....Many have asked if a 1999 Jewel calendar will be available soon. This coming year, they've decided not to do a calendar. However, while I'm on merchandising issues, they do have a lot of great plans on that which will be revealed soon, including various things EDAs have requested over the past few years. Check the website periodically for updates on that. Also, in case you felt ho-hum about the Mugs & Jewel Journal after seeing them on the website, let me tell you I felt the same way. However, I finally saw the actual mugs & journal and they are unbelievably MUCH NICER than the website photos led me to believe. I really couldn't believe the difference! Honestly, the mugs are the best mugs we've ever had. Nice, big & very well designed. The colors are also much nicer in reality & Jewel's artwork looks real nice. What really surprised me was the journal. The website definitely doesn't do it justice! Its quite large, beautiful materials, foil embossed Jewel artwork on the cover, threaded place marker & very nicely designed. It is definitely nothing like a little spiral notepad, which is what I previously thought. So.....I don't wanna sound like Mr Marketing, but these items are way nicer than I expected & might be something many of you would enjoy more than you initially thought. I wouldn't say it if I wasn't honestly impressed & I was! So if you're stuck on holiday gift ideas for Jewel fans, check out the Jewel store at the website (http://www.jeweljk.com/). OK. Onto the big EDA issue-Touring.....Although things could definitely change on this, here's a rough (NOT set in stone!) idea of when Jewel's touring will commence. Its doubtful any fullfledged touring will happen this year. Some dates are not impossible but there are no current plans for 1998 tour dates anywhere. Jewel's next tour will likely begin sometime in February of next year. She will likely begin this with a tour of Australia (next February). They are currently discussing logistics of Jewel's next major North American Tour which will likely be next summer sometime. She may do a few US dates next April as well. May through June of 1999 is expected to be in Japan & Europe. So you International fans definitely will soon get Jewel again & so will North Americans, but perhaps not as soon as you would like. Also many of you have written asking who are the musicians playing on "Hands"?. They are: Vocals: Jewel Piano & keyboard: Patrick Leonard Drums: Brian Macleod Percussion: Luis Conte Bass: Paul Bushnell Acoustic Guitar: Jude Cole Electric Guitar: James Harrah Backing Vocals: Jewel & Lenedra Also, for those of you criticizing Patrick Leonard because of his production work with Madonna, I suggest you hold judgement until you get a chance to hear EVERYTHING on the album. He is a diverse producer who has worked with MANY people. His work with Madonna, although very successful, certainly doesn't begin to cover the guy's resume. He's also produced Robbie Robertson, who is very rootsy & totally unlike Madonna. He's also worked with Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) & I'm sure you'll agree thats totally different, too. So my point being, that expecting his production to taint Jewel's vision is completely off base. She chose him specifically because he was empathetic to her vision. So stop worrying about that. In fact "Fat Boy" has almost zero production & is very stark solo acoustic very much like her early live performances. (And Jewel DOES PLAY GUITAR on most of the album cuts. "Hands" is a rare exception.) And finally-- TV stuff. There will likely be others scheduled, but as of now, Jewel is confirmed for appearances on Saturday Night Live on Saturday, November 14th & another Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday November 19th. Thats all I can think of right now. Will update you as I can. Best wishes, MrBB ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #525 ***************************