From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V11 #84 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Saturday, April 8 2006 Volume 11 : Number 084 * 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] Wolf Trap Concert [Sasafrass ] [EDA] From CBS News ["Larry Greenfield" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:16:12 -0400 From: Sasafrass Subject: Re: [EDA] Wolf Trap Concert I don't think unedited is worth the money at all, especially considering all the complaints we've heard about the poor service! As for the official site, they'll be changing it to go along with the new album, so we'll see if it's any better then. I agree that right now, it has a pretty pathetic lack of content! - --------------------------------- Visit my forums! http://darkangelfans.proboards43.com http://www.geocities.com/sasafrass452/darkangel.html http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Evidence E N wrote: >I agree with Robby. I'm not sure the unedited is worth it. Last year, I >bought tickets through them and my seats were not that great. I remember >when I did presale (regular ol' ticketmaster) or regular sale tickets for >the year before that, I was able to get much better seats without the >premium. I am wondering if I should renew my subscription. I renewed it last >year to get the Jewel tickets. Agh! > > >Elizabeth > > >P.S. Does anyone else think it's lame that jeweljk.com doesn't have ANY >photos at all? It's one thing to save "exclusive" photos for unedited, but >it's another to have NO pictures at all on the official website. No clips of >her songs from her CDs. Nada. We could make a better site. Pishaw. At least >make it so that if you introduce someone to the artist, the person has a >website he or she can go to to learn about the artist and hear a thing or >two. Yeah, I know that by now, everyone has heard about Jewel, but what if >you want to show them a newer song? I guess we'll have to direct them to >Amazon or something. It's ridiculous really. > > >P.P.S. Sorry, I had a bad day today. I don't mean to gripe so much. > > > > > > > I'm going to the Wolf Trap concert! I have two tickets in row R... > > > > I'm actually a bit upset about my seat. I bought an unedited subscription > > yesterday for the purpose of pre-ordering and now I'm in Row > > R?? Uncool. I > > should've waited and just bought them April 1st... probably could have > > gotten comparable seats and saved $30... hope it's worth it. [/complain] > > > > Anyway, I'm really excited about the Show! This will only be my second > > show > > (last one being for the Spirit Tour in Virginia Beach) > > > > Robby ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 19:19:23 -0700 From: "Larry Greenfield" Subject: [EDA] From CBS News *Jewel's In Your Shoes * *NEW YORK, April 7, 2006* - ------------------------------ *(CBS) **CBSNews.com's Ellen Crean interviewed singer/songwriter Jewel.* If you've ever read much of anything about Jewel, then you certainly already know she grew up in Alaska, she lived in a van for a while, and she doesn't suffer fools gladly. Actually, she is liable to try to step into the fool's shoes and then write a song or a poem about it, a practice that has resulted in a very successful career. As she comes out with a new album May 2, she explains, she actually has recorded her life as it came full circle. Jewel was born May 23, 1974, meaning that she is 31-going-on-32. As it happens, this is highly relevant to the matter at hand: "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland," the new CD, is Jewel's first release in nearly three years. (Past Jewel albums include her 1995 debut, "Pieces Of You," her 1998 release, "Spirit," her 1999 CD "Joy: A Holiday Collection," 2001's "This Way," and "0304" from 2003.) "It's about coming full circle," she says, speaking by phone from the ranch in Stephenville, Texas, where she lives with retired world-champion rodeo cowboy Ty Murray, 36. (They have been together for seven years.) The order of the songs on "Alice" fall into order like a book, with a beginning, middle and end, which, she says, "kind of came about naturally." It traces her path from the solitude of Alaska to the joys and pitfalls of fame. The album title also refers to the fairy tale vs. truth about love and friendship. Among other things, Jewel's music provides a narrative of her own life. It is partly chronicled on her debut album, "Pieces of You," which came out in 1995. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or even a seasoned poet to figure out that time marches on and that, more than 10 years later, Jewel has new stories to tell and other insights to share. As a matter of fact, she says turning 30, finding herself in a committed love relationship, and settled on a Texas ranch definitely means that there's a full circle as the wanderer comes home. It's not only her own life that she narrates, but the lives of other people; a habit of stepping into others' shoes has certainly enhanced the range of her writings. She says her songs "percolate" inside her as she moves through life. Suggest to her that she takes emotional risks as she nurtures those percolations on paper and Jewel is quick to explain: "Oh, I didn't mean to be a risk taker. Part of it has been that it has been necessary for me to make big movements or to be caught up in the current of my life." Born in Utah but raised in Alaska, Jewel (born Jewel Kilcher) had musical parents who enjoyed performing and who encouraged Jewel's participation. She says she remembers being 6 years old and "singing for Eskimos and Aleuts in remote places, taking dog sled rides through frozen tundra." After her parents divorced, Jewel continued, at age 8, to perform with her father, hiding from the authorities when they arrived unexpectedly at the biker bars and lumberjack joints that hired them. But when she was 15, performing solo, she landed a vocal scholarship to Interlochen, a private arts school in Michigan, where she also majored in visual art. She learned to play guitar and also started writing songs. One spring break, when she was 16, she hitchhiked in Mexico, earning money as a street-corner minstrel. "Hitchhiking through Mexico, that was just stupid. I wouldn't do that again. But I don't regret it," she says today. How could she regret it, when she came out of the experience with the song "Who Will Save Your Soul"? Three years later, that tune became a huge success as the first single from "Pieces of You."It certainly didn't hurt her songwriting to spring from a background that encouraged encounters with such a diverse sampling of humanity. But that was only one of her influences. "There's probably a lot of reasons," she says. "Child of divorced people. Strange combination of things. I guess I always was a writer. The way I saw people, the way I saw the world, was always detached, making up stories about people. I guess I've always been that way." There's documentation to prove that point. A fifth grade teacher she had saved Jewel's writing assignments in a file. Recently, Jewel got a look at her first piece of schoolwork for that teacher: She wrote about being a homeless man. Aside from her music, Jewel is also involved in several personal projects. In 1999, she started a charitable foundation, Higher Ground for Humanity, which is managed by her brother, Shane, and to which she donates part of her income. During the summer of 2002, she launched Soul City Cafi Artbeat, a showcase for emerging musical and spoken-word artists who performed with Jewel during her tour in 2002. The main focus of Higher Ground is the ClearWater Project, designed to bring safe drinking water to thousands of people in Honduras, Tanzania, Tibet, India, South Africa and Mexico. "Writing, for me, has always felt like a release," she says. "It probably helped bring me closer to myself. I always felt safer, for some reason, the more truth I could pull from myself. I learned when I wrote. I always felt there was safety in that. I tended to be attracted to writers like that." She points out that, since certain wisdom holds that there are seven basic human emotions, "I certainly don't have emotions other people don't have  But I'm not afraid of exposing myself." And it doesn't make her feel especially vulnerable to prying eyes. She is fairly comfortable about staying one step ahead, in that arena: "I'm able," she says, "to beat everyone to the punch." Her debut poetry collection in 1998, "A Night Without Armor," sold more than a million copies, and the audiobook version received the 1999 Audie Award from the Audio Publishers Association. The following year, she published "Chasing Down the Dawn," a chronicle of an artist's life on the road. "The more I read, the better I feel my writing becomes," says Jewel. "Love is the hardest write about  better writers, like Shakespeare, have zeroed in on it. But if you zero in on its fineness, on its subtlety, then you don't even have to try to make it original. "Love is not as easy as it is that you're told when you're little. You know you're in love when you find you're not leaving  My experience has changed with it, though. It's like a thumbprint; it's always different." - ------------------------------ *TEN QUICK ONES With Jewel* *Dog or cat?* Dog (Jewel has a shitzu.) *Spring or fall?* Spring *Sweater or sweatshirt?* Depends on mood *Favorite color?* "Why pick?" *Favorite song?* "The Other Woman" as performed by Nina Simone *Latest movie seen?* "Brokeback Mountain" *Brownies: Nuts or not?* Nuts *Dinner for two or dinner for 20?* Two *Last meal?* "With a theology expert, to look for loopholes." *Motto?* "Drive fast, take chances  I don't know, I don't, really." (c)MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. - ------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V11 #84 ***************************