From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V7 #494 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Friday, November 15 2002 Volume 07 : Number 494 * 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 V7 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] NJC: Some EDAs defy description... [Harrisbros@aol.com] Re: [EDA] NJC: Some EDAs defy description . . . . ["Larry G." ] [EDA] Angelfood ^.^ ["Mark Austin" ] [EDA] Re: Prayers needed please [=?iso-8859-1?q?Shannon=20Penberthy?= ] [EDA] Jewel article in Local Paper, transcribed! [Princess Lauren Is Mr. BB Jewel's agent? Is he a bald, English >gentleman with glasses? *** Mike replied: >None of those apply. He's not bald, English, has no glasses >nor is he a gentleman. >Just kidding! Actually, the best description of Mr. BB (aka, our buddy Alan) is simply "the garden gnome"... Y'all who have met him will get the reference. ;-) *** Adrian then wrote: >I was wondering if Alan's appearance had changed THAT >radically in recent times! >...anyone remember what a kookybaka looks like?! Hmmm, I'd say a kookybaka looks like a balding, English-looking gentleman with glasses. (with apologies to Larry G.) For this week's creative writing assignment, everyone post their description of Mike Connell (or what you imagine he looks like). Stirring things up for the first time in a LONG time, that *Harris* guy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:50:18 -0800 From: "Larry G." Subject: Re: [EDA] NJC: Some EDAs defy description . . . . Mike's too easy: He's Hagrid (Harry Potter fame). But Dennis reminds me of someone . . . . Who is it? Where am I? What hill? Dennis wrote: > > *** Adrian then wrote: > >I was wondering if Alan's appearance had changed THAT > >radically in recent times! > >...anyone remember what a kookybaka looks like?! > > Hmmm, I'd say a kookybaka looks like a balding, English-looking gentleman > with glasses. > (with apologies to Larry G.) > > For this week's creative writing assignment, everyone post their > description of Mike Connell (or what you imagine he looks like). > > Stirring things up for the first time in a LONG time, > > that *Harris* guy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:59:05 -0500 From: "Pupecki, Stacy" Subject: [EDA] njc: patti griffin/jason mraz Does anyone have cds by patti griffin or jason mraz? How good are they? are they worth buying? Which one of patti's is the best? You can email me privately, thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:38:14 -0500 (EST) From: Shannon Lindsey Mackie Subject: [EDA] NJC: fluent germans needed :) Hey guys - I need someone that can read through my paper for German class. Definitely someone who is fluent and will be able to catch nearly every if not all mistakes. I know quite a few of you are from Germany, so anyone that can help would greatly be appreciated. Please return my e-mail personally and not through the list in regards to this. Thank you so much! Shannon Mackie 26 Prospect Avenue Newark, DE 19711 (302) 383-8216 http://www.unfaithful.org/fh ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:20:37 -0500 From: "Lindsay" Subject: [EDA] show lengths? / extra front row ticket, SUNY PURCHASE anyone know how long they've been running? just wanted to have an idea about what time I might get home. thanks! Lindsay PS- still have that extra front row ticket if anyone's interested. tonight, @ SUNY Purchase PAC in Purchase, NY!!!! email me before 5 if you're interested, thanks ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:31:02 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: [EDA] FWD: JeweLink NewsFlash Here is the latest issue of JeweLink, directly from Jewel's "people", if you want to get a copy of this directly as each issue comes out, you can sub- scribe to it by sending a blank email to join-jewelink@list.jeweljk.com ******************************************** JeweLink - The Official Jewel Communications List ******************************************** ***JEWEL'S TOUR SECTION UPDATE: NEW VIDEO A new Jewel video has been posted for you! This week, check out Jewel performing "Standing Still" on the last night of the This Way Tour. Shot on July 28 in San Diego, CA, the video also features behind-the-scenes footage. To visit Jewel's Tour section, just click the link (under Check This Out!) on the home page or go directly to: http://www.jeweljk.com/low/tour.html ******************************************** Jewel concert information, radio and TV broadcast scheduling updates available 24 hours a day at: http://jeweljk.com/low/calendar.html ******************************************** WANT TO OPEN FOR JEWEL? Enter Soul City Cafe Music Quest by submitting your 3-song demo and you could win an opening slot on Jewel's 2003 tour and other prizes that will give you the exposure you deserve! UPDATE: the contest submission period has now been extended through January 15, 2003. Learn all about it at: http://www.soulcitycafe.com/general.asp?cpg=artbeatupdate&cnm=contestm ******************************************** - --- You can help a friend subscribe by having them send a blank email to join-jewelink@list.jeweljk.com To view selected back issues of JeweLink, please visit the JeweLink Archive at the www.jeweljk.com calendar page. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:23:19 -0330 From: "Mark Austin" Subject: [EDA] Angelfood ^.^ Hiya everyone ^.^ This is my first message to everyone, so I hope im not sending this into the wrong address. So, angelfood! I want to get started at it, because I don't have any at all! So, anyone, PLEASE, in North America, Canada preferrably, but the States is ok too, anyone doing angelfood tapes, e-mail me with what they have and info on aquiring it from them? I know to send them the blank tapes and postage, don't worry. So, thanks everyone! I hope to hear from some of you soon~! Mark _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:40:15 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Shannon=20Penberthy?= Subject: [EDA] Re: Prayers needed please I'm really sorry to hear about your mum Lesley. My mum died of cancer about 7 years ago, so I know how hard it is. I'm really thinking of you, your mum and the rest of your family. shan - the aussie eda http://careers.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Careers - - 1,000's of jobs waiting online for you! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:23:34 -0200 From: "Fabio (wnet)" Subject: [EDA] Women and Songs 6 This will be released soon: 1. A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton 2. Soak Up The Sun - Sheryl Crow 3. Standing Still - Jewel 4. Hands Clean - Alanis Morissette 5. Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan 6. Don't Know Why - Norah Jones 7. Goodbye To You - Michelle Branch 8. Sweet Ones - Sarah Slean 9. What It Feels Like For A Girl - Madonna 10. Beautiful Blue - Holly McNarland 11. Sometimes Wanna Die - Joydrop 12. Full Moon - Brandy 13. The Look Of Love - Diana Krall 14. Baby Can I Hold You? - Tracy Chapman 15. Never Mind - Jann Arden 16. Day By Day - Bet E. & Stef 17. Still Desire You - Melanie Doane 18. My Oh My - Molly Johnson 19. Bonnie & Clyde II - Martina Sorbara 20. Miracle - Dayna Manning 21. The Streets Where You Live - The Buried Heart Project (Features: Sarah Harmer, Sarah Slean, Bif Naked, Esthero, Jim Cuddy, Steven Page, Gord Downie, John Wozniak And Many More!) Fabio ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:04:23 -0800 (PST) From: Princess Lauren Subject: [EDA] Jewel article in Local Paper, transcribed! Hey everyone, Here's an article about the upcoming Jewel show in my local town. (Lowell, MA). I'm sure there will be another article once she plays here tomorrow night, (and I'm going and will write my own write-up!) :) Anyway, enjoy, I thought you all might like to read this: A JEWEL OF MANY FACETS by Austin O'Connor, Lowell Sun Staff Just last spring, Jewel Kilcher, a singer with whom most fams are on a first-name-only basis, was readying for a comeback tour after a self-imposed three-year hiatus from the music business. Her latest album, This Way, buoyed by the hit "Standing Still", had been enjoying brisk sales since its release the previous fall, and a slate of early summer live shows were shaping up as sellouts. And then one day she hopped aboard a colt at a Texas ranch owned by her rodeo-star boyfriend Ty Murray and was summarily deposited on the ground, collarbone first. The late April fall may have snapped her shoulder, but it would take much more to crush Jewel's spirit. After all, the 29-year-old was famously living out of a van in San Diego before she burst onto the pop scene in the mid 1990's with her debut album 'Pieces of You', which spawned several hit singles, spent 114 weeks in the Billboard 200 and sold more than 11 million copies. She's living proof that bad times don't have to last, so it's hardly a surprise that she managed to turn an unjured collarbone into an excuse to improve her live shows. Unable to play guitar during the first part of her summer tour, she dropped the instrument and delved deeper into her vocal work. "I hate admitting this," Jewel says during a recent phone interview, "but I think sometimes I sing better when I'm not playing guitar. I can't shut my eyes and scream and stretch time and melody when I'm not playing the guitar. I hate admitting that, but it's probably true." Jewel, who plays a solo acoustic show at Lowell Memorial Ausitorium tomorrow night, has been fooling around with her songs in her live act for years. In concert, her songs have a different pulse than on her records. In an age where pop songs and musicians seem increasinly programmed and drained of life, and artist who is willing to take such onstage risks stands out as a breath of fresh air. Her fans have taken note, trading bootleg CDs of her shows with the passion of Phishophiles. But Jewel says her stage improcisations often owe more to neccessity than inspiration. "Two things contribute to that," she laughs about her penchant for impromptu rearrangements of music and lyrics to even her biggest hits, "boredom and forgetfulness. If I change lyrics, it's usually because I'm forgetting them. But I love going to a show and hearing new interpretations of things," she continues. "As an artist, I just get really bored singing the same way all the time. It starts to become automatic, so I kind of have to make it new to me." This Way offers more proof that willingness to expand her artistic borders. After recording her first three albums in Los Angeles - 'Pieces of You' was followed by 1998's 'Spirit and 1999's 'Joy: A Holiday Collection', both of which went multiplatinum - she laid down the tracks for 'This Way' in Nashville, and the album has a country twang that jangled the nerves of some longtime fans. Though she knew that taking her sound in a different direction would be a gamble, stagnation was hardly an attractive alternative. In such a context, "Standing Still," the first song on 'This Way', stands as a raucous retort to the artistic perils of resting on laurels. Bit did she ever fear that her new direction might turn off her biggest fans? "The worst death I know is to cater to thoughts like that, because you end up losing your strongest coice, whatever's moving you toward doing something, " she says. "My real fans know that anything I do is going to be for authentic reasons. And the hip, hightly contrived thing doesn't look good on me. It turns people off, including myself." She produced' This Way' herself, the first time she has taken on those duties, but certainly not the last. "I'll probably always produce from now on," she confirms. "The trend now is that the producer is sort of the mastermind (behind an album.) But it wasn't always that way. And now that I know enough about what I want, I think it has to come from me. It's my job and I'd rather have my career fail or succeed on my own." And though music is her first love, her career is a multimedia one. In 1998, she published a book of poems called 'A Night Without Armor', which became a bestseller and sold more than a million copies. She's hard at work on a follow-up collection, this time entirely dedicated to love poems. In 1999 , she made her big screen debut in 'Ride with the Devil', a poorly-recieved Civil War drama. Despite the film's miserable showing, her performance was widely admired, and her screen follow-up is already in the works. She'll star in 'Wave', an ensemble piece that will be financed by her own production company. The project closest to her heart, though, is the Soul City Cafe, her recently formed grassroots artistic outfil designed to encourage and develop new artists. Jason Mraz, the singer-songwriter who will open tomorrow night's show, is a Sout City Cafe discovery. "The industry right now isn't geared to help support and develop artists," she says, explaining why she founded Soul City. "The only way to get a unique artist is by letting an artist develop naturally, and it takes time." Time is what Jewel was lacking three years ago, when she decided to take a break from the music business. "The main reason I quit for those two years was that I got into my job because it was art and I loved it, and I found that I was spending most of my time talking about it," she says. Since her return to music, she's made a point to schedule ample down time into her touring and promotional schedule. So far, it's working. "I've been able to arrange my schedule in a way that's been sustainable, and it's allowed me to maintain and focus on creativity." Another hiatus probably won't come soon, since she's already writing songs for her next album. She's promising a fun sound, using the Big Band records that dominated the war-torn '30's and '40's as a template for the record she hopes will serve as a kind of antidote to similarly uncertain times. Don't expect all the new tunes to be light and cheery, though. Jewel's songs have always been driven by her social and moral conscence - remember, the first song she ever wrote was called "Who Will Save Your Soul?" - and she remains a keen observer of the geopolitical scene. And active one, too. She campaigned vocally for Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election. "I think when povery bites your heart at a young age, you either become more bitter or more compassionate," she says. "I'm a person that lived, at a vertain time in my life, off the kindness of people. And so a lot of my songs are very driven from the news and world and social issues. I'm a person who falls in love as well as watches the news, and so my music is going to reflect a spectrum that everyone feels." Though she has volleyed during this year's tour between full band accompaniment and solo affairs, it'll just be Jewel and her guitar on the Auditorium stage tomorrow night. And it sounds like that's the way she prefers it. "Solo shows can be much more layered," she says. "You can do a lot of things at once. I talk a lot more, and there's a lot of humor." Even more, her solo shows are all about her voice, different now from when it exploded onto the music scene almost a decade ago, but no less powerful. Save for a broken collarbone here and there, Jewel's ride has been a smooth one. But smoothness sometimes sounds like it bores her - like a rodeo rider eyeing a particularly testy bull, Jewel looks forward to the rough spots, even when they result in broken bones. "I've always been drawn to people who had a sungulat voice, who sounded the way they wanted to sound," she says. "The only careers that really sustain over lots of records are the people who take risks." Lauryn Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V7 #494 ***************************