From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V6 #682 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Monday, December 10 2001 Volume 06 : Number 682 * 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] new jewl pics ["Amy Emerman" ] [EDA] Jewel's I & I and Mike Bullard Show ["Long Le" ] [EDA] NJC: New layout @ Neurotik ["Scott" ] [EDA] Jewel on Canada AM ["Long Le" ] [EDA] NJC: Even deeper this time ["Rowdy White" ] [EDA] Really interesting new article [Fredsteve@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:51:03 From: "Amy Emerman" Subject: [EDA] new jewl pics I like the new jewel pics up this week. She always looks so purdy. It looks likes she's cradling her guitar and singing us a lullaby. A sexy lullaby. ha ha _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:54:12 From: "Long Le" Subject: [EDA] Jewel's I & I and Mike Bullard Show Hey people, Hey Devin and people, I was at the Jewel I &I. I was sitting behind the pregnant girl and the girl with the daisy in her hair. This is the area by the back up singer. It was funny how some of the song she didn't even sing too. ( oh, I was the asian guy wearing the black shirt...the gay one. lol) I didn't have tickets to the I&I but I did not give up, I waited and waited and waited till finally the blonde girl who gave the riskband out FINALLY gave me one. GOD BLESS HER MIGHTY HEART!!!! I waited since 10 am in the morning to see Jewel, it was certainly worth the wait. Also, I was at the Mike Bullard Show, it was great!!! She performed "SS" and what she was wearing was FAB!!!! Her drummer is pretty cute. Cheers to all Long - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:04:56 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: [EDA] NJC: Archive diving Rowdy Roddy White inquizitated: > Hey, I was looking for something in the archives (btw what ever happened to >the chance of the archives becoming searchable?) I asked The Power That Be (i.e. Jeff W), as a Rev A prototype searchable smoe archive has been online for a while now yet not unveiled, and I just got a response, that being: >it's gonna be a while. i haven't had time to work on it.... So, it looks like it will be a while yet, as he hasn't had time to work on it.... Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:06:59 -0500 From: "Scott" Subject: [EDA] NJC: New layout @ Neurotik Just to shamelessly plug myself, I have a new layout up at my personal site, Neurotik.. It's a Janis Joplin, retro-chic, funky vibes sort of deal.. Check it out @ http://tanweb.com/scott =) scott.evans [[mind is DISCONNECTED. but my heart is WIRED.]] AOL IM: sevans112 . Yahoo! IM: sevan112 . scott@tanweb.com Planet Jewel - A Jewel Fansite [ http://jewel.tanweb.com ] Neurotik. (my personal page) [ http://tanweb.com/scott ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 03:07:18 From: "Long Le" Subject: [EDA] Jewel on Canada AM Hey All,Jewel is on Canada AM on Tuesday from 6:30am to 10am. The station is CTV. Someone please tape it. Long - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 03:12:31 From: "Rowdy White" Subject: [EDA] NJC: Even deeper this time Well, even if the people at smoe can't give us a search engine for the archives, lucky for ya'll I have no life, and so here is another look back (speaking of which.. if anyone looking through the archives comes across a post from BardX13@aol.com, please email it to me)....This post is long, and I'm going to put the PS of it first: Well, watching Jewel from the dark, I felt the thunder in my heart, she was an angel, I wanted to believer her, but she did break me, broke us all really, and no matter where we sleep or where we are she made an impression on us. And god knows that to us, the true fans, she will always be-the one and only-Jewel.------------------------------- Now, guess who wrote that...I know that paragraph is prolly the most reposted thing on the list, but still... Here is the full post from Sean Hooks: Subject: Defintive JStock Report(day 1) Well, that was the most moving concert I have ever seen(not the best just the most emotionally moving) and the most stunning individual performance I have ever witnessed. Two and a half hours plus of just one person and a guitar and a sincere true honest genuine display that I was lucky enough to be a part of. In-fucking-credible. I was speechless. Can't remember everything but here goes. Patty opens, it's a short set, she was good, can't stop to dwell, Jewel's performance awaits. She comes out and reads two of the best poems I have ever heard, the imagery and wording floors me, the one about Infatuation was so true and real and relate-to-able that I was like just wow, anyway, then she starts singing. We start with Don't and 1,000 Miles and that is a god indication of where the night would go, two tear-jerkers back to back. Then Angel Needs a Ride, a personal favorite, good story telling, again most of the stories throughout the night I can't remember, but they were all honest and genuine, especially the little jokes where Jewel would bring up something weird that she does and no one responds and then she goes, well I don't either. Best story(funny) of the night was the Dolores apology/reference to Sinead and Alannis. Best serious stories come later. Then you get songs like My Fish Family, His Pleasure is My Pain, Louisa and her Blue Guitar( really good), Studies in Love 12, Tough Girl, Fragile Flame, Cold Song, All the Animals, Tiny Love Spaces(also awesome), and a couple of other songs like that-all acoustic, just Jewel, pouring her heart out for us in tragic yet comically intersperdsed bliss. She did Face of Love with her mom Lenedra and it was incredible, one of the absolute highest points. Then, 'Nedra sings a lullabye called Little Bird, a cute Disney-esque tail that woos the audience but in the last line of the song the poor bird dies, more evidence of things to come and of the show on a whole. I'll explain momentarily. Band came out for Fading Away, Fragile Heart, Satelite, and Carnivore(raucous applause, floored everybody, damn it rocked out!), but Jewel digressed, just as it seemed like she was really going to tear into the band stuff and try to rip the roof off the place she settle down for more solo quiet stuff that ended with songs like Moon Over Austin and Innocence Maintained. At this point the concert is almost two hours old and I'm guessing she's gonna end soon, at this point she has played well over twenty songs and only one off the album-truly staying true to the obscure songs that she doesn't get to play elsewhere-she knows this is a hardcore audience. No WWSYS on the horizon, prob'ly no Chime Bells either I' thinkin'. The encores however is when this show went from exceptional to truly and amazingly great(a word that I unlike most people almost never use) and it was great. Nikos was incredible, so real and honest, the PS I love you, your sister Jewel lines at the end seemed to bring the biggest silence over the room of the night, afterward there was a noticeable two second pause as everyone just sat there in shock and amazmement before applauding. Then came the heroin story that preceeds Amen, which has always been one of her best songs live and at Jewelstock it was even better than usual, she confined herself as much as she could until she got to the lines about Where are my angels, Wheres my golden one into the lines about children being beaten and born and it was as if she was pleading with god during those lines, gritting her teeth and trying to comprehend such injustices. Then she finishes with the Halleluja and she looks completely drained, says goodbye and leaves. She has ended shows with this song before but not unless she has played something more positive before hand, WWSYS, Chime Bells etc. so part of me thinks the show is over but soon I realize it is not and that a second encore will ensue. She comes back for You're So Small and then Sometimes it be That Way, and I'm thinking OK, now she's gonna finally break out stuff like I'm Sensitive, RaceCar Driver, God's Gift to Women, Rocker Girl, or Foolish Games to set the audience into a frenzy, but I look at my watch and realize it's so late and begin thinking that she's really done now and that there's only one song left, she is talking to people in the middle of the audience about Race Car Driver and I figure that that will wrap the show, then some guy called out for Jessica and that was what did it for her, she began thinking, put her head down as if rifling through her songbook in her head, and I know what she's gonna end with. Deep Water, has to be, this is the song that is really all of Jewel's songs rolled into one, it's her mantra song, her message, who she is, her statement, it's so obvious. Our standard of living somehow got stuck on survive, sacrifice, fighting through it all to succeed and do what we love, through the abstraction of society and the imposed cruelty of the world. This is the song that will contradict all the depressing stuff and solemn solo acoustic songs we have been hearing all night, after all is said and done, all the previous songs are the deep water that society tries to drown us in. This is gonna be the show ender. Wrong. She ends withe her most downbeat, Nihilistic, violent song in the entire repetoire, a song that people remember as being so good yet so dark and harshly realistic when they first hear it that they are shocked. And I was shocked to hear it here ending the set. It was amazing, she took us all in her hand throughout the entire show and led us here, giving us just a little hope and light and positivity in Sometimes it be That Way that the effect of it being followed by this awesome rendition of Nicotine Love is that much more magnified and affecting. After two and a half hours good does not triumph over evil. This is a story of a woman warped by her experiences, not one who overcomes them but succumbs. Jewel closed her fist over the audience an squeezed and we felt it. I knew that the houselights were coming up, there would be no more encores, no more songs. This is how it ends, not a silver lining, a mysterious cloud-I was blown away. I didn't hang around after the show for an autograph or a picture, being there was enough, this was not a positive experience, not optimism but realism. If I ever do meet Jewel(I've spoken to her from afar in congratulatory tones or needy ones like direct song requests, but I've never been within an arms' length. If I ever am lucky enough to meet this incredibly deep and real and honest and beautiful person I want it to be on an interpersonal level, not as a begging obsessive fan as part of a line of other people just like, metaphorically drooling over her. I am not putting down those of you who stuck around for a glimpse of her, I'm just saying it's not my style. Hopefully she doesn't become popular and her next album, though I'm sure it will be even more radio-friendly than Pieces of You(which was basically not at all except for WWSYS, not that it was a sell out song or anything), does not sell with really big numbers, because this is how I will remember Jewel, this is the way should be seen, the venue and audience respect will never be like that again if gets big and famous. I want to see her like this again. Seeing her in small bars and clubs is close but the audience is not quite as good-too many drunks and people who are there for reasons other than Jewel. But a different Jewel comes out for those shows, like the one I saw at the Tradewinds that was also incredible, but lacked the emotional raw power of Jewelstock. I am seeing her open for Neil Young at MSG on the 19th and am not going to see her, would be there just for Neil anyway, but know that he performance there will seem lackluster in comparison to small venues, her intimacy and real-ness will be dwarfed by the size of the building and the inattentiveness of an audience that doens't really care(remember the HFS-tival, she doesn't like being disrespected and we the true fans suffer because she isn't going to go all out if she knows the majority of people in the building aren't listening). I guess that's about all, she was again, awesome, moving, and impressive. If you know of songs I forgot to mention, please post them, if you have anything to respond to, reply to this post to the digest as well. Again thanks to Akira and Mike and 'Nedra and Hiranya and of course Miss Jewel herself, I experienced something unforgettable. Later, Sean Hooks Well, watching Jewel from the dark, I felt the thunder in my heart, she was an angel, I wanted to believer her, but she did break me, broke us all really, and no matter where we sleep or where we are she made an impression on us. And god knows that to us, the true fans, she will always be-the one and only-Jewel. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:11:03 EST From: Fredsteve@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Really interesting new article Hey Here's an interesting new article from the Toronto Sun... TORONTO -- Jewel Kilcher won't be gracing magazine covers perched nude on top of a horse, no matter how much begging goes on. The singer is intent on doing things her way whether it be the recording of a new album or a photo shoot. "When I was on Rolling Stone, my second cover, they wanted me to be naked on a horse," Jewel says as she sits in her Toronto hotel room. "I was like 'Yeah right, this is not happening, dream on' but they begged me." Jewel remained firm. She wasn't going to bare all for the music mag which has pimped the likes of pop idols Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera by shooting them in tiny outfits for previous covers. "They can't make ya," Jewel says. "I'm not a model, they didn't hire me. Just do what you're comfortable with. I was raised to be very independent. I never held back an opinion." As the singer most famous for her simple, folksy pop hits such as "Who Will Save Your Soul" prepared to enter the studio for her latest record, "This Way", her opinion was that this album had to belong to her, not to a famous producer. "I just became aware before I did this record that I had to be more of an influence on it," she says, "or it sounds like your producer which is a trend right now...like hire Mutt Lang, hire certain club guys to get cool beats. I just wanted it to sound like myself." Jewel says she auditioned and worked with "like 20 producers" for the album and even though she didn't end up "going with them", she took enough from their interactions to be able to produce much of "This Way" herself. The result is an album that focuses less on her trademark chords, earnest voice and catchy, country-like lyrics than her previous work. The sound is still slightly bouncy and folksy but the chords are more complex, the back-up band is a bit grittier and she doesn't sound quite as sweet. Jewel's new album a bit more grown-up, an observation that she may have heard one too many times. "People say that maturing thing to me," Jewel says. "I definitely mature, everybody does. At the same time, a lot of the songs that the critics are talking about seeing the maturation [in], I wrote when I was 17. 'Love Me Just Leave Me Alone' [from the new album] I wrote when I was 20. I think what I was able to do on this record was show myself better...more like a live show so you're able to see the diversity of my writing." For Jewel, the answers to many questions about her career seem to make their way back to the subject of lyrics. The words, the way they rhyme, what they mean, how they sound, how they make her feel, seem to be the element that propels her career. Jewel's love of lyrics means that although she is planning a world tour, she'll do fewer live performances for this album than she has in the past, "[I'll] probably make less money but for my art I need to spend as much time writing as I do promoting,". It means the words that don't fit into the "four lines per verse, return to a chorus," format will spill onto the printed page and make their way into books of poetry and prose such as the recent, "Chasing Down The Dawn" and the previous Jewel's previous collection of poetry, "A Night Without Armor". Her love of different types lyrics have and will vary and change from her former "clichE country lines" phase which found her pen the line: "She treated her men like she treated her dollars/there was always another bill that came along" to the collection of love poems she plans to create one day. The singer's passion for the written word also means that she won't pose on top of a horse naked or prance around in a tube top. "I don't feel any pressure to put on a mini skirt," Jewel says. "I'm like any girl, I mean you always feel like dressing up at some point, but I've never felt like 'Oh geez, I'd better show more cleavage so that people will like me better' and I've always spent so much time on my lyrics that I don't want anything to overshadow them. So I'm pretty careful about not being a cartoon." Jewel admits that looks and clothes do play a part in the career of most female solo artists though. "Looks really help," she says. "That's the way life is. Girls have a harder rap that way, the guy from Creed is not cute - sorry girls I know a lot of you look up to him and think he's a god but...I don't think he's cute. Looks really, really help and I think that part of that is women manipulating that, women who've removed ribs and gotten boob jobs and nose jobs to make themselves more perfect. Women have banked on their beauty in the industry for years and its created a standard, its partly our own fault." But just in case there are young Jewel fans currently pondering nose jobs in an effort to break into the recording industry, Jewel is quick to reinforce the mantra that helped act as her own producer, write poetry and avoid naked horse-back riding. "You don't have to compromise anything, your vision, your values, I've never been asked to change," she says. - ----------------------- They asked her to pose nude on a horse!? Well... i'm glad she didn't do that.. but then again... Steve ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V6 #682 ***************************