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Post by JJ on Jul 1, 2015 12:37:44 GMT -5
Hey guys! Jewel has been preparing a new book of memoirs and a brand new album that shall be a bookend to Pieces of You. She finally released the tracklist and it's amazing! A lot of great fan-favorites but never released gems plus a few brand new songs. Below I picked the most important parts from her post on her website: www.jeweljk.com/jewel.html?n_id=2672 The Book:
As many of you know, it’s called Never Broken and it’s a memoir. My purpose for writing was not only to share my life with you, but also to share the meaningful shifts in my perspective and thinking that have allowed me to remain resilient, successful, and happy despite just about every kind of set back and abuse a human can suffer. While it is far from a tell-all (as there is still more I have not revealed that did not seem germane to the purpose of the book) I am very transparent about times in my life that none of you have ever known about. It took a lot of courage to share these things so honestly, but I felt compelled because I am keenly aware that I am not the only one in life who is struggling. While my struggle might be unique in some ways to my life, suffering is far from uncommon. My hope is that in sharing how I have come to look at my life - what has taken me 40 years and a lot of pain to learn- might benefit and inspire any of you who might be needing encouragement and tools for dealing with your own struggles. I want to encourage each of you to remember that you are indeed the architects of your own lives, no matter the situation and that even if you don’t have a supportive family, spouse, funds or access to traditional help- all you need is some common sense, tenacity, and what’s in your heart to create the change you are looking for. The book will be released September 14th and I can’t wait for you to read it!
The CD:
I am still working on the title, but I can give you the track list!
1. Love Used To Be
2. A Boy Needs A Bike
3. Everything Breaks
4. Family Tree
5. It Doesn't Hurt Right Now
6. His Pleasure Is My Pain
7. Here When Gone
8. The Shape Of You
9. Plain Jane
10. Pretty Face Fool
11. Nicotine Love
12. Carnivore
13. My Fathers Daughter
14. Mercy (formerly called Broken Until Open for any of you prone to tracking this type of thing)
My focus for this CD was to forget everything I have learned about the music business the last 20 years and get back to what my bones have to say about songs and words and feeling and meaning. I let go of genre, radio, trend, current events, and clever strategies. I let go of it all - which was no small feet as those voices are so deeply penetrating after 20 years of doing this professionally. It took real effort to clear my thoughts and have no rules and just create - going back to my folk/American roots that I began with. I had wanted Ben Keith, who did Pieces of You, to produce it for me, but sadly he is no longer with us and I had wanted to hire Paul Worley, an old dear friend whom I believe still cares about art more than commerciality. I had wanted to use many of the Stray Gators, Neil Young’s back up band that also played on my first CD, but we lost many of them over the years, so Paul helped me get some players together that were from that camp- like Chad Cromwell on drums and Dan Dougmoore on guitar. About a week before rehearsals, Paul backed out of my project, telling me he believed the only person who should produce the CD was myself. I was quite angry at the time, though I do recall him saying one day I would thank him. Well, here I am, thanking him.
I have always been hard to capture in a recording. My heart shines through live and I am effortless and emotional, informed by the heart of the people before me. In a vocal booth, I am more self-aware, self-conscious, and less inspired. It has always been a challenge to try and capture my dynamics and range on tape. This is why we abandoned the studio in bulk on my first CD and recorded live at the Inner Change Coffee house. Twenty years later, I am not much better in the studio, so I decided to record live again for the people I really care about - my fans. I recorded a live show at The Standard in Nashville and fans came in from all over the world to be there at our swanky soiree. There was still some band stuff I wanted to cut, so I devised a plan to try and capture the spirit of live performance by cutting live in the studio with friends watching. We spent a week in a rehearsal studio working up arrangements for the song and then when it came time to record, the band and I all set up in one large room at the famous RCA-A building. Drums, bass, keys, steel, electric, and me on acoustic and singing. We set the loudest instruments the furthest from the mic and the softer instruments closest - basically creating a mix in the studio by the placement of our bodies relative to the microphones. The idea was to capture one whole live take of a song and be done with it. No overdubs, no layering tracks, no auto-tune or tricks. Just one live take - and it was a blast! It was emotional and raw and a little messy - but honest. That’s all I wanted. This is not a clever record. This record has no genre. It has no single that will be played at radio. It is raw, honest poetry that poured out of my bones and my soul. There are several six minute songs with no chorus. There are folk songs and country songs and songs that are just long poems set to music. I have no idea if it will sell one copy, but I love it and hope you will feel what was in my heart, trying to come out the only way I know how to - with the intense keening and passion and love life requires.
The record has some full band tracks, some acoustic tracks with light coloring by the great Jonathan Yudkin, who played on my Lullaby and Merry Goes ‘Round CDs, and some solo acoustic live tracks as well. Overall, the feel is minimal, focusing on the singing, lyric, and emotion.
Because I did not make this record thinking of things like tempo and singles and because I am now a mom, I can’t imagine doing the six months of promo required to get on the airwaves. I looked for an indie label to partner with and eventually formed a partnership with Sugar Hill Records, a blue-grass label. They are lovely and committed to helping me put out a singer-songwriter record at the height of a market that is saturated with slick and upbeat songs on the pop and country side. Once again, I’m hoping that earnest and sincere can break through, though I am keenly aware that the work it takes to do so will be limited on my part because my first job is to be a mom and to be there for Kase.
I will release the CD at the same time as the book, so that I can combine the press in one shot and I don’t have to leave home to promote my art two separate times. I’m trying to work smarter and keep balance for my family and hopefully share some soulful music and words with you all!
In the next few months, I will be creating videos for songs and will be in touch with more exciting news!
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jul 1, 2015 13:01:14 GMT -5
I haven't really enjoyed a Jewel album since 0304 (I did like most of it), though parts of Goodbye Alice I do still like for nostalgia but I am looking forward to this. I hope it's not country at all as I found her country stuff to be rather faceless. I actually think my preferred Jewel might be dabbling in folktronica. I'd like Pieces Of You with very minimal electro, if I could ask for anything. But in any case, I'll be watching for this.
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Post by So Pure on Jul 1, 2015 22:18:01 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a studio version of Violet Eyes!
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Post by JJ on Jul 2, 2015 11:13:51 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for a studio version of Violet Eyes! The Shape of You is a sort of updated version of Violet Eyes, it's about the same person, a friend that Jewel lost to cancer.
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Post by JJ on Jul 21, 2015 20:42:50 GMT -5
Album title: Picking Up The Pieces
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Post by JJ on Jul 28, 2015 10:24:29 GMT -5
Pretty Face Fool sneak peek! Jewel Returns to Folk Roots on 'Picking Up the Pieces' Album A Dolly Parton duet is included on deeply personal LP, due in September BY MARISSA R. MOSS July 28, 2015 It was just over 20 years ago that an Alaskan songwriter named Jewel made her debut with Pieces of You, a record that carved out a perfectly confessional, coffeehouse niche between the decline of grunge and the rise of the slinky pop princess. And on September 11th, the "Who Will Save Your Soul" singer will release Picking Up the Pieces, Rolling Stone Country can exclusively confirm, her first collection of new material since 2010 and a follow-up, of sorts, to that breakthrough LP in both subject and spirit. Jewel produced the 14-song collection herself in Nashville, recruiting an A-list session band including 2014's ACM Guitar Player of the Year Rob McNelley and frequent Neil Young collaborators like drummer Chad Cromwell as an ode to Ben Keith, with whom she worked on Pieces of You and was a staple figure in the Young world before his death in 2010. Any self-referential notes in Picking Up the Pieces are fully intentional: After giving birth to her son, divorcing her husband and dabbling in both children's music and country, Jewel wanted to return to the signature stripped-down folk-pop that gave her one of the best-selling debuts of all time. "It's really a time capsule," Jewel told Rolling Stone in a 1997 cover story about Pieces of You. "When I recorded it, I thought, 'No one's gonna hear it. I'm just going to be honest and put it down on tape.' I didn't really clean up all the edges." It's since been certified 12x Platinum. Though evocative of her earliest years, Picking Up the Pieces is still also true to her country side, with "My Father's Daughter," a collaboration with Dolly Parton that tells the story of Jewel's father and grandmother, the later whom emigrated from Europe and was an aspiring opera singer. Jewel released her first country album, Perfectly Clear, in 2008, and played June Carter Cash in the Lifetime TV movie Ring Of Fire. And she's got one heck of a mountain yodel. Picking Up the Pieces will include new songs (“Love Used to Be,” “Mercy") as well as unrecorded tracks that have long made the rounds at Jewel's live shows like “Carnivore” and “Boy Needs a Bike," both of which she's been playing since the mid-Nineties and are pure Lilith Fair-era wandering folk narratives with her signature balance of gritty growl and sweet whisper. "My focus for this CD was to forget everything I have learned about the music business the last 20 years and get back to what my bones have to say about songs and words and feeling and meaning," Jewel writes on her blog. "I let go of genre, radio, trend, current events, and clever strategies. I let go of it all — which was no small feet as those voices are so deeply penetrating after 20 years of doing this professionally. It took real effort to clear my thoughts and have no rules and just create." Jewel will also release her memoir, Never Broken, on September 15th. Picking Up the Pieces will be available September 11th, via Sugar Hill Records and is now available for pre-order here. www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jewel-returns-to-folk-roots-on-picking-up-the-pieces-album-20150728
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jul 29, 2015 13:01:20 GMT -5
YESSSSSSS @ that album cover. She looks like an updated version of her debut album cover self. I love it! I am actually excited for this.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jul 29, 2015 13:57:10 GMT -5
The song in the clip seems to have country influence in it. I guess she'll never really rid herself of that.
I'm looking forward to this too, though it's odd because I'm not actually overly fond of Pieces Of You. I recognize that that's the Jewel most people associate her with but I didn't actually become a fan of her really until This Way. I enjoyed Spirit more than POY (though now I'd put POY ahead of it) but other than a few songs from each, Jewel didn't win me over until her third. In any case, I'll be picking this one up and hoping it'll have the charm of POY but with more polish and hopefully very little influence from country.
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Post by Albie on Jul 30, 2015 15:26:34 GMT -5
Spirit is still my favorite but I haven't followed her since 0304. This has me kind of excited though. And she looks great on that cover.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jul 30, 2015 19:01:16 GMT -5
Let's do the obligatory Jewel album ranking, because there's probably only a few of us here who cares This Way 0304 Pieces Of You Goodbye Alice In Wonderland Spirit Sweet and Wild/Mild Perfectly Clear This Way is by far my favourite album of hers and I actually really enjoy 0304. Spirit is an album where I like many of the songs on but I listened to it a few months ago and I never realized before how spiritual it sounds, like it sounded like a Christian/religious album - it didn't feel the same as it used to. It felt preachy. I was never overly fond of it anyway because it was so mellow. Goodbye Alice In Wonderland has some gems on it though.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 30, 2015 19:14:31 GMT -5
Can't wait to hear this album. Her two country albums were fantastic so I really hope she keeps some of that sound for this project and kind of finds a middle ground between that and her folk-pop. She's always had a great voice and I like some of her early singles, but I definitely like her best when she went country.
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Post by JJ on Jul 31, 2015 12:39:02 GMT -5
Pieces Of You This Way Goodbye Alice In Wonderland Spirit 0304 Sweet and Wild/Mild Perfectly Clear
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Post by blahsi on Jul 31, 2015 18:14:27 GMT -5
This Way Goodbye Alice in Wonderland Pieces of You Spirit 0304 Sweet & Wild Perfectly Clear
To be fair, I like them all pretty equally... the country ones not as much as her other releases but definitely Sweet & Wild over Perfectly Clear. I'm ridiculously excited for Picking Up the Pieces. Pre-ordered the signed book and CD from her store.
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Post by Rural Juror on Aug 11, 2015 17:48:18 GMT -5
My rankings:
This Way Goodbye Alice In Wonderland 0304 Perfectly Clear Sweet and Wild Spirit Pieces of You
POY is a classic, but I feel like her work after that are much better suited to my tastes. This Way IS perfection and GAIW is a very close second.
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Post by JJ on Aug 14, 2015 11:13:47 GMT -5
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Post by JJ on Aug 28, 2015 12:00:59 GMT -5
Jewel said My Father's Daughter is being sent to Americana stations... Is this a thing? Sorry for the lack of knowledge...
Also, Pretty Faced Fool is available for download on iTunes and others.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 28, 2015 13:58:22 GMT -5
God, this woman is an ageless beauty.
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Post by DJ General on Sept 2, 2015 22:17:04 GMT -5
I'm excited. I hope it is more folk like her debut. But I've always been a fan. I didn't realize it was coming out next week! Will the album be in stores like Target, Best Buy, etc?
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Post by JJ on Sept 3, 2015 8:25:11 GMT -5
I'm excited. I hope it is more folk like her debut. But I've always been a fan. I didn't realize it was coming out next week! Will the album be in stores like Target, Best Buy, etc? I believe it will be in stores too. In other news, Jewel will be participating in several events this month, regarding the book and the CD release: Sep8 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry Sep14 New York, NY Barnes and Noble Union Square - Talk & Performance & Signing Sep15 Nashville, TN City Winery with Parnassus Books and the Americana Festival - Performance & Signing Sep16 Lexington, KY Joseph-Beth - Signing Sep16 Lexington, KY Woodsongs - Performance Sep17 Birmingham, AL Books-a-Million - Signing Sep19 Detroit, MI Renaissance Unity Women’s Conference - Keynote Talk Tickets Sep21 Boston, MA Berklee College of Music - Talk & Performance Sep23 Denver, CO Tattered Cover - Signing Sep24 San Diego, CA The Sherwood Auditorium - Talk & Performance Sep25 Phoenix, AZ Dobson High School Auditorium - Talk & Performance Sep26 Los Angeles, CA Book Soup - Signing Sep27 Los Angeles, CA Sam's Club - Signing
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Post by JJ on Sept 3, 2015 8:26:16 GMT -5
Track By Track for Picking Up The Pieces
“It was the time in my life to do this,” Jewel says, reflecting on her decision to record, produce and now release Picking Up the Pieces, her first “proper” album of new material in five years and a self-described return to the emotional and musical territory mined on her landmark 1995 debut, Pieces of You. “It’s something I needed for myself. It was really an exercise in shutting out fear. I was giving myself permission to be exactly who and what I was.”
“Love Used To Be,” by Jewel Murray. "A potent depiction of an emotional state following the decision to divorce. “I’m very proud of this lyric. It’s completely non-commercial, six minutes long and doesn’t have a traditional structure, but I think lyrically, if somebody was to look back on who I am or what I am as a writer and lyricist, this is a good example. It’s a song that you have to listen to several times and it’s a gut-wrenchingly honest take of where I was at in my life when I wrote it.”
“A Boy Needs A Bike,” by Jewel Murray. “I’ve often written from a male’s perspective both in my songs and in my short-story fiction. I liked the idea of a young boy not being able to understand the tension in the household and identifying with his dad and wondering if women are crazy, and the way his dad handles that relationship and the nuance of it. And the son enjoying a bicycle and the release of it and the way his dad enjoys going in his car to sort of meditate. But the boy is too young to understand. I love the limitation of a child not being able to get the full picture but still get the idea.”
“Everything Breaks,” by Jewel Murray. “I wrote this song about 20 years ago. But doing it now and recording it now, I didn’t get through it without sobbing on every single take. This song has more relevance now than it did when I wrote it.
“Family Tree” by Jewel Murray and Lisa Carver. “In addition to the autobiographical lyrics, this is really about the obligation we have as children to examine where we come from and where we want to be. It's directly conveyed in the bridge line that says, ‘Take the fruit but choose the seeds I scatter in the wind / That’s the job of the kid to do better than our parents did.’ No matter whose childhood it is – even the best of childhoods – there are traits we might want to weed out and traits that we really want to continue. And to try and do that thoughtfully I think leads to a more fulfilled life.”
“It Doesn’t Hurt Right Now,” by Jewel Murray and Rodney Crowell. “I’ve been a big fan of Rodney’s and we finally got together to write. He came up with that first verse and we liked the idea of this being a mini-play. It’s very theatrical - with a storyline that conveys the aftermath of a woman's affair on a broken relationship devoid of communication. It’s also about the complexities of love and the willingness, courage and ability to engage yourself in it fully or not. I think it’s difficult to do a male-female duet. It’s hard to strike the right note that isn’t just sort of saccharine. But Rodney’s a very deep and thoughtful writer and very interested in truth, so I loved that this wasn’t a typical duet.”
“His Pleasure Is My Pain,” by Jewel Murray. “I wrote this quite a while ago, when I was probably 18. I’ve always liked this song but never found the right place for it. I recorded it acoustic at my home studio and then I had a friend add all those evocative strings to it. This added such a rich texture and ambience to it. It’s a very long song with no chorus. Producing that type of song can be difficult, but hopefully the storytelling is intriguing enough that people keep listening.”
“Here When Gone,” by Jewel Murray. “This song was never completed until a couple years ago. I was never happy with it. And even then I wasn’t sure until I got in the studio and figured out this dramatically improved arrangement. Thanks to the chemistry between these musicians and I, this song has finally found its place. The poetry and lyric is very unique to my style of writing. I don't recall hearing anything quite like it before, as it transitions from a sort of haunting groove to a shuffle swing.
“The Shape Of You,” by Jewel Murray, Dallas Davidson and David Lee. “I wrote this for a friend of mine that passed away of cancer. I’d written another song for her called “Violet Eyes,” shortly after she died, and this revisits my feelings 15 years later. Losing someone you love very dearly is so painful; you just wish the pain would go away. But after time I started to see that pain as a little treasure because it was something that reminded me of her. I was driving down the road and had this idea that I had a hole in my heart that is in the shape of you. There’s a beauty to mourning and missing somebody and holding them in your heart. It’s sort of like a little window into heaven you can see them through.”
“Plain Jane,” by Jewel Murray. “I wrote this after being in New York for a week and being around some socialites. It’s about women – and I include myself, certainly – feeling this need to hide behind something because we don’t feel good enough exactly how we are. We have to somehow be prettier or smarter or dress better to be lovable. It’s really a song about self-acceptance and learning to love yourself and that ‘Plain Jane’ is beautiful.”
“Pretty Faced Fool,” by Kip Moore, Brett James and Dan Couch.” “My friend Kip Moore wrote this and he’s a really dear friend and a really great talent. He’s been with me through a lot of what I’ve been going through. He played me this song and I really loved it. As much as I’m a really big fan of songwriters, I don’t find many songs that I feel sound like me, but this song really resonated.”
“Nicotine Love,” by Jewel Murray. “I wrote this a really long time ago, predating my first album by a couple of years. Way before I was homeless. I was probably 18 and had just graduated high school. It’s an extremely dark song about a woman who had been sexually abused as a child. She turns to prostitution and ends up getting off on killing men and controlling them. I look back at a lot of the songs I wrote at that time and none of them are love songs. They’re very complex and grown-up. Thanks to Jonathan Yudkin's wonderfully adventurous string arrangements, this is now exponentially darker than any solo acoustic performance of it. I still find it remarkable that I wrote this song at such a young age.
“Carnivore,” by Jewel Murray. “I’d forgotten I’d changed the bridge over time into this low, mellow little-red-riding hook spooky bridge and I didn’t realize there was ever another bridge over time. My fans on Twitter reminded me to go back to the original bridge on “it. I was sent a bootleg of it and now it’s more dynamic. My fans speak up a lot. They really wanted “Carnivore” on the album.”
“My Father’s Daughter,” by Jewel Murray and Lisa Carver. “This song is very personal and very autobiographical. I thought it worked well to have Dolly Parton on it. It’s kind of difficult on that personal of a song to have somebody on it, but Dolly was definitely the perfect choice because our lives are similar in several ways. It’s a song I wrote in 2008 - seven years ago, and whenever I sing it live people always cry. I was always surprised because it’s such a personal song about my life and my story, but I definitely realized as I sang it that people relate their own lives to it. Dolly said it reminded her of “Coat of Many Colors” and some of her autobiographical songs, which was very flattering.”
“Mercy,” by Jewel Murray. “This is the newest song on the album. I wrote it for myself. I was in a lot of pain when I wrote it. It really touches me when I sing it. It reminds me a little bit of “Hands” just in its message: yielding and giving instead of being more brittle and fighting and armored. I’ve been playing it live recently and it seems to be bringing a lot of comfort to people. People often cry when I sing it. It's always nice when you create something for yourself that you really needed to hear and it seems to be something other people needed to hear as well.”
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Post by Active Aggressive on Sept 3, 2015 12:51:31 GMT -5
Based on these descriptions, I NEED this album now. Thank God it comes out so soon. A Boy Needs A Bike sounds so familiar. Is that a song from like...1998?! A friend of mine gave me a bootleg cassette way back then and I wish I still had it. It was a Jewel Unplugged bootleg and among the songs was an early version of Satellite. I love that Jewel keeps reviving old songs she used to sing and changing the arrangements.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Sept 3, 2015 21:02:21 GMT -5
Was it called Solace?
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Post by Active Aggressive on Sept 3, 2015 21:54:15 GMT -5
Holy s**t. I just read the lyrics and recognized it instantly. Damn, this song IS old. She has been playing this live since at least 1998! Can't wait to finally have a finished copy. Hopefully, it is as raw as it originally was. I need to get my hands somehow on those recordings again! This was my favorite song on that bootleg tape I had. :'( I am instantly sent back to HS with this one and the nostalgia is flooding back to me. Alright, so this will probably be my favorite album since Pieces of You. I can sing along listening to A Boy Needs A Bike as if I was a senior in HS all over again. CRAZY! If it were me, I'd have the guts to put to test those bolts and nuts...and I'd ride away so fast, so far, away. :'(
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Post by Active Aggressive on Sept 3, 2015 22:09:56 GMT -5
I think I found the bootleg I was talking about! It's an unplugged compilation that was never released from 1997! A Boy Needs A Bike is on there as well as Satellite and her cover of Too Darn Hot. I was wondering where I remembered that from! *runs off to download* 1000 Miles Away. I was wondering why that song sounded so familiar when I first heard the studio version. Ugh, I am such a stan!
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Sept 3, 2015 22:24:41 GMT -5
I have a CD I found at a used record store about 10 years ago called Solace that has a bunch of live in-studio recordings of a lot of Pieces of You songs but also songs like Satellite, Love Me Just Leave Me Alone, Last Dance Rodeo, etc. It was recorded in 1997. Doesn't have A Boy Needs A Bike though.
I've only heard the song with Dolly so far but I do really like it. It's very early Jewel sounding and that's what I'm liking and hoping for, plus Dolly sounds just great in it.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Sept 4, 2015 7:56:53 GMT -5
Yeah, the album is called Jewel Unplugged and has the 10 songs from MTV Unplugged, 2 from a fan event, and 5 from some other live show. My friends are on the job for me, looking for it. I can't be pressed with torrents and sketchy pay sites.
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Post by JJ on Sept 4, 2015 8:37:20 GMT -5
Picking Up The Pieces is available for streaming on Pandora Radio! t.co/sfcjGnSHVq
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Post by Heart Shaped Box on Sept 4, 2015 12:16:51 GMT -5
The album is okay. Definitely more folksy.
I think the opening track is probably the strongest track.
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Post by JJ on Sept 11, 2015 11:54:09 GMT -5
This is out now! I didn't get a chance to listen to it all the way through, but I really like what I hear. It's Jewel being her best, for sure. Promo time: 9/14 - Fox & Friends - 6 AM - 9 AM EST on FoxNews: September 14, 2015 9/15 - The View - ABC Daytime (syndicated - check local listings for air time): September 15, 2015 9/21 - Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM Radio: September 21, 2015 10/1 - Jimmy Kimmel Live - 11:35 PM EST: October 01, 2015 10/22 - Steve Harvey Show - Daytime TV (syndicated - check local listings for time and station): October 22, 2015
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