From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V6 #700 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Sunday, December 16 2001 Volume 06 : Number 700 * 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] VMA Perfomance Search [MagickBa11@aol.com] [EDA] CBS Morning show [MagickBa11@aol.com] Re: [EDA] Jewelstock tree, a no go because of bootlegging? [NmL484@aol.co] [EDA] another Jewelstock tree? J-team's present thoughts on it here.... [] Re: [EDA] (sjc) edas/interchange cafe ["cymbaline" Subject: [EDA] another Jewelstock tree? J-team's present thoughts on it here.... Rowdy White wrote: >I dunno, I can see good reasons on both sides of the tree issue... Being >five years later, things may have changed, and instead of arguing or even >just debating it (which will not change the rules) why not ask Jewel if >she minds a new tree now? There are _many_ reasons why the "JewelStock can never be treed again" stipulation was implemented during the original tree in 1996, not just the bootlegging fear that I addressed in a post on Friday. Some of the reasons which have nothing to do with a bootleg fear are not at all diminished over the last five years, and as a matter of fact some of those reasons are hightened, not diminished. While I did NOT ask the J-team their thoughts on a new tree, this weekend I received an email stating their present thoughts on the matter. After a 5+ year relationship with them, I would NEVER ask them to reconsider something such as the policies regarding the JewelStock tapes. It's not mine nor anyone else's place to do so. Especially so since when these stipulations were put into place, they and I were thinking five to ten and more years into the future. None-the-less, they know of the recent rumblings on the list regarding a new tree of the JewelStock tapes and this is a snippet of the email I received from a member of the J-team: {snip} > Nothing has >changed really as far as J mgmt wishes. Individuals are not discouraged from >trading and giving copies away on an individual basis, but official trees, >etc, are not a good idea as Jewel and Lenedra specifically asked the EDAs >(and you) not to tree them again. {snip} 'nuff said. Again, there are many reasons behind this rule, and I am not at liberty to get into the more inportant ones at least not just yet. So please, let's put this issue to rest before it does become an issue, as it just cannot happen. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:50:23 -0500 From: "cymbaline" Subject: Re: [EDA] (sjc) edas/interchange cafe > Actually, On Life Uncommon, i don't recall who says it, but they mention > that she was just a singer in the coffee house, and people were eventually > lining up to hear this girl.... > > Not sure if it was steve, or someone else, but yeah thats what it says on > the video actually, I seriously think it was the coffee. have you ever had that coffee? damn, it was good. too bad starbucks had to come in and drive all the innerchange business away. did i mention that coffee was good? better than good.... it was grrrr-eat! :) cymbie. tree hugger. ** if love is a river heartache is a desert. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:13:26 EST From: Fredsteve@aol.com Subject: [EDA] This Way Review Another vaiguely positive This Way review.... critics are having a hard time admitting they actually like this album. - ---------- This Way Atlantic Records When Jewel first burst on the scene with her tasteful guitar, insipid insights and sappy lyrics, it didn't seem like female pop singers could possibly get any more vapid. Several years of manufactured pop idols have now laid that theory to waste. Suddenly the fact that Jewel is ambitious, can actually play an instrument and writes her own songs has a lot more meaning in the wasteland of popular music. And This Way is a fairly credible step in her career. Working more closely with a traditional band gives it a weightier edge than previous efforts. Though her lyrical efforts are far from the poetry her fans think they are, it's still a fairly honest effort at personal expression. And sometimes when it hits home (Standing Still and the straightforward title track), you wonder if there's a serious songwriter waiting to bloom. Probably not, but This Way is a step in the right direction. Grade: B- -- Mark Brown ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:20:00 EST From: Fredsteve@aol.com Subject: [EDA] yet another review Hm... i'm finding all these reviews all of a sudden. - ---------- Jewel This Way (Atlantic) 2.5/4 She comes out with acoustic guitars blazing, wanting to be Springsteen, singing about headlights "cutting through the darkest night." The song isn't much, an ordinary, woebegone riff called "Standing Still," but the rougher, less ornate backing suggests that Jewel Kilcher -- who previously specialized in airy pop bonbons dusted with incense-store wisdom -- is trying to get back to Earth. She recorded This Way, her first collection of new material since 1998's Spirit, in Nashville, and co-produced it with guitarist Dan Huff, whose credits include working with Faith Hill. The change of locale does her good: Even when her songs are little nothings about love (the Sheryl Crow-style "Everybody Needs Someone Sometime"), the elemental backing makes them seem sturdy and inevitable, providing her too-tortured voice with a solid anchor. And she has written several decent songs here, among them the bittersweet "Till We Run Out of Road" and the beautifully harmonized "Serve the Ego," the most insightful of several Jewel commentaries on the shallowness of pop culture. ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V6 #700 ***************************