From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V10 #178 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Tuesday, July 26 2005 Volume 10 : Number 178 * 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: ----------------- Re: [EDA] Flying solo [E N ] Re: [EDA] Flying solo [Mike Connell ] [EDA] St. Paul Pioneer Press ["Larry Greenfield" ] [EDA] jewel starbucks cd - amazing [Scott ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:51:46 -0700 From: E N Subject: Re: [EDA] Flying solo On 7/24/05, GAMGRIFF@aol.com wrote: > 5:20 a.m. July 23, 2005 > Flying solo, Jewel shines at Pabst Theater > By Josh Hertzog > There was practically no resting moment for the multiple Grammy winner ???? Grammy's? Hehe ... uh oh, someone made a mistake ;-) Elizabeth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:37:10 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: [EDA] Flying solo Elizabeth pointed out: > > There was practically no resting moment for the multiple Grammy winner > >???? Grammy's? Hehe ... uh oh, someone made a mistake ;-) It could have been worse...they could have said "Alaskan-born multiple Grammy winner..." Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:23:59 -0700 From: "Larry Greenfield" Subject: [EDA] St. Paul Pioneer Press Published July 25, 2005 Jewel tour will feature fresh material There won't be a new album for a while, but the folk-turned-pop singer has new songs. By Ross Raihala ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS Jewel does  not  have a new album coming out this year. Not that it would be out of the question. It has been two years since the Lilith Fair star issued her infamous "0304." (That would be the disc where the "Foolish Games" folkie traded her acoustic guitar for a drum machine and trotted about in hot pants like Britney Spears' crazy aunt.) That's why I asked the woman born Jewel Kilcher when her fans could expect something new in stores. Perhaps she had a fresh offering that would follow her summer tour? "I'm not sure," she said during a phone interview from her ranch in Stephenville, Texas. "Maybe in the spring." Spring 2006? Jewel paused and then answered in a voice best described as a bark: "This isn't a new album interview, this is a tour interview!" Oh, OK. Jewel might be a little touchy because, like her contemporary Alanis Morissette, she has had some difficulty following her breakthrough album. Her debut "Pieces of You" has sold more than 11 million copies, and its follow-up topped 4 million. But her two subsequent discs choked at retail, and she earned much ridicule for publishing a book of her poetry, "A Night Without Armor" (you can pick up a used copy via Amazon.com's Marketplace for, ahem, one penny). "I wish music wasn't so uptight," Jewel explained. "It's an uptight industry, and (putting out a new album) is a serious, big deal. If I had my way, I'd probably make a record every six months." So, in other words, Jewel fans can expect to hear plenty of unreleased material during her solo, acoustic concerts. "My shows tend to be different every night," she said. "You know, I've got probably several hundred songs in my catalog, and my concerts are pretty heavily bootlegged. I've got so many good songs I'll never get to release." Jewel said she uses the stage as a sort of laboratory. "I think singing a song live for a good year makes you find the sweet spot melodically," she said. "You start to pick up on the good lines and figure out ways on how to improve it. "My fans love to hear half-written songs. And that's what makes me love music." [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of pixelclear.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of pixelclear.gif] [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of pixelclear.gif] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:04:47 -0700 (PDT) From: James Brogdon Subject: [EDA] Merrillville Review A less-than-capacity crowd got the same ole setlist last night in Merrillville. I -did- request freebird at the beginning of the show, because no one else to know that it needed to be done, and I got a prompt and personal "free one for ya buddy." We were sitting 2nd row and close to one of the audience mics requesting Boy Needs a Bike, Rosy and Mic, Nicotine Love... kept askin' for Anything Goes and she made a typical remark about some of the crowd knowing her unreleased material and proceeded to play a radio-release immediatley after. I feel like other people's reviews of her shows are always so much more upbeat than when I attend. Her demeanor, as usual, seemed pretty cheery but she was unprepared, kept rapping on her guitar with her fingers and twisting her mouth to the side while deciding which song to play next. What's weird is that I would think a performance that is so un-planned would have more variance from show to show as audience members shout out requests for their particular favorite. We heard constant requests for Adrian... I realize she's not going to sing that at a show, but I would really like to know what series of thoughts runs through her head for the 6 seconds from the end of one over-performed song to the next. I don't want to beat the dead horse about first timers wanting to hear FG YWMFM etc so I'll move on. I did hear a new strumming pattern between songs. Thought that a new song might be coming but she backed out. Has anyone ever heard her talk about the belly dancing troupe that used to go to shows with her and Atz? She made a joke about one of these women having an extraordinary body and a full-beard. She said she used to walk home (a mile and a half) with this woman's daughter and that she would check the girl's silhouette (not the word she used) against the sunset to see if she was getting peach fuzz 'because kids are curious about stuff like that. She then went into talking about Stinky, who had moved to Alaska from the lower 48 to be as far away from a nuclear strike as possible. She said he lived underground, had a refrig. for a door and that he made great woven baskets. The point of this was how strange Homer was but that LA, where she's been spending a lot of time working on the album, is the strangest place she's ever been and that she still hasn't adjusted. Her story about the mexican drug bust included a couple of new details. She mentioned that the Federale (sp) patrol had contact with other boats (via CB), required the boats to identify themselves, and that the reason they ended up chasing the drug-smuggler boat was that the didn't identify themselves. She also said that the 'narc' in the story wasn't a drug smuggler, he was just a fisherman that had been paid to help transport. She also mentioned that people could see the pics if they visisted Poltz.com (she spelled it) and scrolled down far enough. When she was wrapping up the story she told some of the details in a hurry (like giving the m.j. to the federales' cook because she had arthritis). Overall I felt like the show was short, we'll have to see when I sit down to write out the actual setlist. Opened with Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which just felt out of place and I think caught the audience off guard (which was a good thing, IMO). Her perf. of Carnivore was pretty intense. I don't even really hear the songs anymore, just stare at her facial expressions and body language. She's always done a good job of capitivating the audience vis a vie expressing emotional duress during her performances, but she really looked like she was feeling it. More than I was. Which was quite a change. Goodbye Alice was introduced as "probably the most auto-biographical song I've ever written." Despite the fact its been available for so long I'd probably only heard it once, when it first appeared, so this song I did actually listen to. The lyrics were very personal, a lot of angst thrown in there. I thought it was somewhat ironic though to hear her signing about craving reality when in fact that *is* reality. The loneliness she tries to express in the song is so real and so average. Usually I feel like singer-songwriters are using universalities to try to connect to their audience, and this was a bit like trying to get a more specific, personal empathy -from- the audience, like the experience at that moment, while she was signing it, should belong more to her than the ones watching. It didn't of course, because she tours so often, so I really do feel sorry for her and that little vortex she's stuck in. Anyway, I recorded as usual, but it's going to be really bad because I went unprepared with weak batteries and some of you might remember that I have a cheap mic and a minidisc recorder to begin with. If there's someone that wants to try to edit the audio to get rid of the tapelike hiss and the lack of windscreens over the mics, lmk. I also didn't record the story before YWMFM (and perhaps the song). I took some pics with a digital camera, no flash, maybe one of two decent. I need to correct for the pink lighting that the Star Plaza Theatre does. I also took a 2:45 video of the end of Everything Reminds Me of You and most of Chime Bells (up to the point where she asks "Faster?" It's about 200mb so I need to reduce the resolution and rotate it.. patience please :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:33:38 -0400 From: Scott Subject: [EDA] jewel starbucks cd - amazing when your local starbucks gets the xm radio series 1 cd, GET IT. jewel's three songs are amazing. intuition louisa and her blue guitar (!!) the other woman they're all acoustic, and the other woman is a capella. louisa is AMAZING. i've waited SO long for a studio quality version of the song. i'm not disappointed. i'm so lucky to hear these songs all day as i make coffee. :D scott ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V10 #178 ****************************