From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V9 #50 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Monday, February 16 2004 Volume 09 : Number 050 * 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 V9 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] MY Bad James is Cool ["kevin maguire" ] [EDA] 1st Australian show [Barry Howarth ] [EDA] Article - Diamond in the Rough ["Stephen H." Subject: [EDA] MY Bad James is Cool Hey just wanted to Say i posted about James, but i mad a mistake, i forgot about an email that i got from him about about 6 weeks ago, The trades and emails took longer than i thought, but quailty takes time and we are all very busy people too. And things like that do take a lot of time to put together. Just wanted to say sorry to James, and He has some GREAT stuff to trade for. Rock On Kevin The most personalized portal on the Web! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:30:05 +1100 From: Barry Howarth Subject: [EDA] 1st Australian show Hi Angels, Jewel did her first show of her Australian tour last night, and her 2nd show in Hobart (a good 1200 km to the south) is at present well under way . I've been waiting almost five years to see her again live and it was well worth the wait. She was wonderful. And she was stunningly beautiful! She wore a diaphanous pink top closed only at the bustline, with a red bra underneath, and jeans. Her hair was blown by the wind throughout the show, which created a lovely effect. She said at the beginning she was very tired and still jet-lagged, but it didn't really show. She did have some trouble with her guitars, which kept going out of tune. It was a hot day -- mid-30s -- and humid; a thunder storm threatened for a while but luckily passed us by. It was an outside venue, set in a vineyard and winery in the Hunter Valley, about 250km north of Sydney. I drove with my daughter and her partner from Canberra, over 600 km away. My daughter's partner was not a fan, but was very impressed by what he saw and heard. How could anyone not be? Jewel presented a fairly conservative setlist, almost all the songs coming from her CDs, especially POY. Here is what she did: 1. Near You Always -- a "traditional" opening 2. You Were Meant For Me 3. Little Sister - -- "Bob Dylan must be gay" story 4. Sometimes It Be That Way 5. Hands 6. Life Uncommon -- she gave up half way through the song as the guitar was out of tune 7. Cold Song - -- "Can I see your boobs?" story 8. Race Car Driver 9. Stand 10. 2 Become 1 11. Who Will Save Your Soul -- with a great scat section Encores: 12. Foolish Games 13. Break Me -- the highlight of the show for me, but I just love this song, acoustic 14. Morning Song 15. Down So Long -- This was requested. Jewel said she couldn't remember it but spent some time with a guy trying to get the words. Finally she gave up on him and got a girl to come up on stage; this girl, whose name was Sarah, said she could play it and knew the words. So Jewel gave her the guitar and they did the song together, a duet towards the end. Sarah played it very well and really did know all the words. It was great and the audience -- about 6000 of them -- loved it. Then Jewel asked the audience if Sarah could sing one of her own songs, since she was a songwriter too. Naturally the they roared their approval, and Sarah sang a song called "Butterflies", which was quite Jewelesque. She was terrific and got an ovation. 16. Intuition -- Jewel asked for 5 girls to come up on stage to dance while she did "intuition". There was a mad scramble and about 15 ended up on stage, despite the efforts of the security people to keep the numbers down. I guess many of the girls were at least tipsy if not drunk -- we were at a winery that was promoting its product after all. Jewel had all these girls dancing around her, many trying to get as near to her as possible. But she kept on singing. At the end they mobbed her, all wanting to hug her. And Jewel kept smiling all the while. Then she was gone and the show was over. Fifteen and a bit songs -- about 90 minutes. Singles from the albums were the core, with Race Car Driver as the only non-album song ("Sometimes It Be That Way" was on "This Way" and "Cold Song" was on the 2 CD POY and the vinyl POY). Jewel was surprised when someone requested Violet Eyes, amazed that anyone knew the song. I heard calls for Emily and Nicotine Love -- my two favourites -- but as you can see she didn't do them. Maybe in Sydney, where I shall see her again on Wednesday, and on Thursday and on Friday. Take care, Barry Howarth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:25:24 +1100 From: "Stephen H." Subject: [EDA] Article - Diamond in the Rough This is from the Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 16th February: *Jewel's fairytale ride got bumpy when fans didn't like the irony, writes Bernard Zuel, who spoke to her ahead of her concerts at the Opera House.* In what was then her earnest, almost born-again-Christian-on-Sunday-morning-TV way, Jewel Kilcher asked what no doubt she considered the "big question" with her first single: "Who will save your soul if you won't save your own?" Sung as a gentle folkish tune with a sound far removed from the then dominating forces of grunge and big-beat dance, /Who Will Save Your Soul?/ helped her debut album, /Pieces of You/, find a home - 11 million of them, actually - in 1995. A few years earlier the Alaskan-raised singer had been living in a trailer; now she could buy a street or two. Without the complicating surname - known only, in the finest pop tradition, by her first name - Jewel became the acceptable face of folk for a pop audience and a happy medium for those who weren't ready to curl up with "classic hits" radio but missed the days of songs "that meant something". There were subsidiary cultural landmarks for Jewel too. Though she was barely into her 20s, an ability to put together words that by comparison with, say, the Spice Girls, looked like poetry even landed her a book contract and eventually two top-selling collections of, yes, poetry. Naturally a film role followed, playing a stoic frontier woman. With two subsequent albums mixing country into the folk mix, more songs about innocence and sensitivity (for example, /Innocence Maintained/ and /I'm Sensitive/) and a charitable foundation funded by her, all culturally correct boxes were being ticked. Jewel was do-right and all right. And then - hello! To launch her fifth album, last year Jewel appeared on the cover of the lads' mag /Blender/ in a bustier and high-riding G-string. Her first single from that album, /Intuition/, not only sounded like pop princesses such as Jennifer Lopez or Britney Spears - programmed beats, girlish twitter - but had a film clip where Jewel dressed and flounced about like one of them. The album proper, /0304/, mined similar musical ground, bringing in established chart-topping co-writers and sounding more like Kylie Minogue than Tracy Chapman. Though the album sold very well initially, critics grizzled and some long-term fans went not so politely feral, asking pointedly of Jewel, who will save your soul if you won't save your own? "Yeah, I was pretty surprised [at the reaction]," says Jewel, who by now, nearly a year later, sounds polite but near terminally bored with talking about herself. "This record, I've seen it in me since I was 18. I grew up with really versatile influences. I grew up in the '80s with Run DMC and Public Enemy, and I grew up with the Cure and Depeche Mode and I also grew up with Cole Porter and Nina Simone. My goal with that record was to combine all my influences. It took me a long time to know how to do it technically and not sound contrived or sound like somebody else's idea of how to mesh those influences." From the outside, however, it looked nothing less than contrived, that she was making a bid to recapture the attention of CD buyers whose numbers on her account had dropped from that 11 million to something around 1 million with her fourth album. "I think the video [for /Intuition/] probably didn't help," Jewel responds. "I don't think people got the video. It was taken very seriously even when it got so over the top that it had to be a parody. And the lyrics talking about fads and trends were so obvious. I tried to use the video to marry the images about J.Lo and Kate Moss and Charlie Sheen as pop images that represent fads with the theme, being follow your own intuition, wherever it takes you." Of course it didn't hurt that the album and single were being bought by the same people in effect being parodied, the fans of mindless but brilliantly assembled pop. But the startling sexuality confused or angered the existing fans who thought they had their sister well pegged, particularly after having read quotes from her such as this one from a Canadian newspaper interview only two years earlier: "I don't feel any pressure to put on a mini skirt. "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." So, weren't we entitled to wonder if /0304/ was the beginning of the cartoon? "I really feel as a musician I've been asked to choose between being intelligent and credible and being sexy," Jewel complains. "Generally the people who want to be taken as serious singer-songwriters have to dress down. I've looked at artists, female painters, poetesses; sexuality is such a unique and intrinsic part of their whole art and I thought, 'Why are we being asked to chop off a side of you and shy away from exploring it because it's generally done in a contrived way?' I started to toy with it, poke fun at it and experiment with it." Fair enough too. Then again maybe it's not the cleavage but the glossy and ultimately shallow songs that caused the damage to the reputation. Should we read anything into the fact that Jewel's tour of Australia is solo and acoustic - folk style - rather than a band-backed pop show? "I guess I just enjoy constantly turning the other way," she says. "It's all the same thing. It's all music, it's all art. It's not rocket science." *Jewel performs at the Concert Hall, Opera House, from Wednesday to Friday.* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:23:16 +0000 From: "Amy Emerman" Subject: [EDA] great open mike I'm hosting starts tonight NYC @ MICKY"S BLUE ROOM, 8-11pm I will be hosting an open mike at the BLUE ROOM beginnnig this Sunday night and running every Sunday night from 8-11pm until further notice. Sign up is at 7:30pm or anytime immediately thereafter. We get down to business at 8pm. We end promptly at 11pm. I will be booking acts to open the open mike starting at 7:30pm. Please come down and discuss this with me if you would like to be an opener. Openers will have a captive audience from 7:30-8pm until we get started. The open mike is free and open to the public. One drink minimum is highly suggested. They do run a busniess operation, so we are expected to drink if we can (non-alcoholic beverages are readily available). You sign up to play two songs. There is a house guitar or you bring your own. The sound system is very simple and I will help you plug in your guitar. I know nothing about sound, but the trusty owner luckily is a musician himself and will be on hand to help out. This should be lots of fun. As for now, beginning tonight, it's every Sunday at 8pm at Micky's. WE end at 11pm. We run a low-key operation but the Blue Room is an incredibly cozy bar with two rooms and groovy people. We are a fine bunch of sweetie pies. Micky's is one of the most underrated hip bars in town. My open mike will kick ass as long as I am running it (hee hee heeh ee) P.S. We welcome every one of all persuasions and believe everyone has something to offer. Sometimes people bring their bongos and little shaky things and get carried away shaking them. Sometimes orgies unravel at these events...although tonight we'll try to keep it cool and low-key. This is a real musician's open mike. Micky's is owned and run by musicians. You'd think they'd have a better sound system there given that, but they haven't yet upgraded it. They have time and more money flowing in soon, so the upgrade will hopefully happen soon. I look forward to meeting some of you list lurkers at the Blue Room open mike at Micky's. It's at AVENUE C between 11th & 10th just one block north of CNOTE. I think it's 171 Ave C or something like that. There's a little neon sign that says "BAR". Ya can't miss it. THank you, Amy http://www.cdbaby.com/emerman _________________________________________________________________ Plan your next US getaway to one of the super destinations here. http://special.msn.com/local/hotdestinations.armx ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:24:07 +0000 From: "Amy Emerman" Subject: [EDA] great open mike I'm hosting starts tonight NYC @ MICKY"S BLUE ROOM, 8-11pm I will be hosting an open mike at the BLUE ROOM beginnnig this Sunday night and running every Sunday night from 8-11pm until further notice. Sign up is at 7:30pm or anytime immediately thereafter. We get down to business at 8pm. We end promptly at 11pm. I will be booking acts to open the open mike starting at 7:30pm. Please come down and discuss this with me if you would like to be an opener. Openers will have a captive audience from 7:30-8pm until we get started. The open mike is free and open to the public. One drink minimum is highly suggested. They do run a busniess operation, so we are expected to drink if we can (non-alcoholic beverages are readily available). You sign up to play two songs. There is a house guitar or you bring your own. The sound system is very simple and I will help you plug in your guitar. I know nothing about sound, but the trusty owner luckily is a musician himself and will be on hand to help out. This should be lots of fun. As for now, beginning tonight, it's every Sunday at 8pm at Micky's. WE end at 11pm. We run a low-key operation but the Blue Room is an incredibly cozy bar with two rooms and groovy people. We are a fine bunch of sweetie pies. Micky's is one of the most underrated hip bars in town. My open mike will kick ass as long as I am running it (hee hee heeh ee) P.S. We welcome every one of all persuasions and believe everyone has something to offer. Sometimes people bring their bongos and little shaky things and get carried away shaking them. Sometimes orgies unravel at these events...although tonight we'll try to keep it cool and low-key. This is a real musician's open mike. Micky's is owned and run by musicians. You'd think they'd have a better sound system there given that, but they haven't yet upgraded it. They have time and more money flowing in soon, so the upgrade will hopefully happen soon. I look forward to meeting some of you list lurkers at the Blue Room open mike at Micky's. It's at AVENUE C between 11th & 10th just one block north of CNOTE. I think it's 171 Ave C or something like that. There's a little neon sign that says "BAR". Ya can't miss it. THank you, Amy http://www.cdbaby.com/emerman _________________________________________________________________ Choose now from 4 levels of MSN Hotmail Extra Storage - no more account overload! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:53:58 -0800 From: "Melissa Bruce" Subject: [EDA] NJC: Patsy Cline/Loretta Lynn Hey guys, Do any of you out there in guitar land know how to play either of these 2 songs? Crazy - Patsy Cline, or Coal Miner's Daughter - Loretta Lynn I've already searched the net for tablature (Google) but I can't find guitar tablature for either (especially Coal Miner's Daughter). I found bass tabs for Crazy but that's about it. A friend has piano sheet music for these songs, but it'll take me a while to transpose them so I can play them on guitar easily (I don't sight read very well) and I want to play them like... now (lol). Anyway, any help would be appreciated :) If no one can, thanks anyway! Just thought someone out there who plays the guitar might know. :) Thanks! :) Melee ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V9 #50 **************************