From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V12 #344 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Saturday, May 31 2008 Volume 12 : Number 344 * 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 V12 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] Re: Sirius Too [mikasteve@mac.com] [EDA] Add full Perfectly Clear tracks to Facebook ["Scott Anthony Evans" ] [EDA] Unplugged at Studio 330 on June 3? [James Brogdon ] Re: [EDA] Rolling Stone review ["Tom H" ] [EDA] VERY funny moment on National Spelling Bee - video [Mike Connell Subject: [EDA] Add full Perfectly Clear tracks to Facebook Jewels Facebook now has a bunch of the tracks from Perfectly Clear. If you use the iLike feature, you can add them to your profile! Also, even if you don't use the iLike app, you can simply listen to them until you buy your copy. It's much cleaner than that iheartmusic.com site, which I think is taking down Jewel after today. :D - -- Scott Anthony Evans scott@scottanthony.org http://www.scottanthony.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 06:11:26 -0700 (PDT) From: James Brogdon Subject: [EDA] Unplugged at Studio 330 on June 3? Hey is someone able to record this? Personally I don't have cable, hopefully somebody out there can put it on a DVD to trade. http://www.cmt.com/videos/cmt-news/235804/cmt-insider-news-now-52708-jewel.jhtml Second link down shows the sneak peek.. her makeup is a little country (Faith Hill+Jessica Simpson style) IMO. Maybe that doesn't make any sense but that's what came to mind. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:47:39 -0400 From: "Scott Anthony Evans" Subject: [EDA] Billboard review of Perfectly Clear - great! Jewel has been a pop chart fixture since 1995, but ever organically rooted to make her move to country a convincing transition, and the format has already embraced top 15 single "Stronger Woman." Her seventh album and first full-length country project, "Perfectly Clear," is not only persuasive, but down-home, old-school country. It's not just the addition of steel guitar that sells Jewel's passage, but the whole of her delivery and lyrical themes. Potential hits abound: Best are the searching, chug-along "I Do"; remorseful ballad "Everything Reminds Me of You"; the uptempo, playful "Rosey and Mick," about a long-term imperfect relationship; and the mannered "Anyone but You," which sounds like a Tammy Wynette classic. Jewel continues to surprise and inspire, and "Clear" is an ideal transition for the 34-year-old Texas dweller. Chuck Taylor - -- Scott Anthony Evans scott@scottanthony.org http://www.scottanthony.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:51:15 -0400 From: "Scott Anthony Evans" Subject: [EDA] Ent. Weekly review - B+! Pop-folkie Jewel's finally gone country on her seventh album, Perfectly Clear, and it suits her: She's an earnest storyteller, and in the land of steel guitars (and co-producer John Rich), there's no shame in tracks titled ''Love Is a Garden'' and ''Thump, Thump,'' two sweet, sway-along tunes. And though self-help single ''Stronger Woman'' is unremarkable radio fare, Jewel does conjure a few special ballads. Her thick vibrato makes desperation palpable on the Patsy-would-be-proud weeper ''Anyone but You,'' and she actually yodels with soul on the soaring ''Loved by You (Cowboy Waltz).'' B+ - -- Scott Anthony Evans scott@scottanthony.org http://www.scottanthony.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:53:50 -0400 From: "Scott Anthony Evans" Subject: [EDA] Rolling Stone review OK, there had to be a bad one. And not a surprise that it's them, is it? Jewel's life has always sounded like a country song: Raised by her cowboy dad and discovered while she was homeless, she went on to sell 12 million copies of her debut, only to become the butt of countless zingers. So Perfectly Clear, her first proper country record, should have been her true calling to an art that's one part twang to two parts self-mythology. But the album's biggest setback, other than the fact that its title sounds like a Neutrogena product, is that Jewel doesn't call upon the gritty storytelling of a real Nashville star. Co-producer John Rich of Big and Rich provides plenty of slide guitar, banjo plucks and fiddle, but no memorable melodies. The title track strikes a raw nerve with its slow, stripped-down arrangement. But the album is overcrowded by placid soft-rock tunes like "Two Become One" and "Anyone But You" with schmaltzy choruses and flavorless piano-laden verses. Jewel contributes bland pickup-truck philosophy about relationships in cutesy little-girl vocals that rarely show off her voice's texture (though, yes, there's some yodeling). On "I Do," she says, "Love is a game"  one track later, "Love Is a Garden." Even the girl-power anthem "Stronger Woman" doesn't promise much: "I'm going to love myself more than anyone else." Jewel, prepare to be zinged again. CARYN GANZ - -- Scott Anthony Evans scott@scottanthony.org http://www.scottanthony.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:59:57 -0700 From: EN Subject: Re: [EDA] Ent. Weekly review - B+! That is a pretty positive review! Yay jewel! - -Elizabeth On May 30, 2008, at 4:51 PM, "Scott Anthony Evans" wrote: > Pop-folkie Jewel's finally gone country on her seventh album, > Perfectly Clear, and it suits her: She's an earnest storyteller, and > in the land of steel guitars (and co-producer John Rich), there's no > shame in tracks titled ''Love Is a Garden'' and ''Thump, Thump,'' two > sweet, sway-along tunes. And though self-help single ''Stronger > Woman'' is unremarkable radio fare, Jewel does conjure a few special > ballads. Her thick vibrato makes desperation palpable on the > Patsy-would-be-proud weeper ''Anyone but You,'' and she actually > yodels with soul on the soaring ''Loved by You (Cowboy Waltz).'' B+ > > -- > Scott Anthony Evans > scott@scottanthony.org > http://www.scottanthony.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 05:37:58 +0200 From: "Tom H" Subject: Re: [EDA] Rolling Stone review I can't help but agree. Every album Jewel makes, she seems to get further and further away from why I truly liked her. She can't help that... But I can recommend you all to listen to The Notwist. Lots of love, Tom. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 00:20:23 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: [EDA] VERY funny moment on National Spelling Bee - video I don't know how many of you out there in EDA-land watch the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, but it's ALWAYS a great show. Earlier tonight during the finals, arguably the funniest moment ever in this bee happened. To top it off this kid won the bee! This is a must watch! It will be all over the news since he won it and Leno & Letterman will be fighting to book him first. This kid was comic relief the entire tournament, but this moment was the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzrNWPul9E Mike ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V12 #344 ****************************