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Jewel Returns To Folksy Roots

 

By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer

 

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - She got her first record deal while she was

living in her blue Volkswagen bus. Now she's a multiplatinum,

multifaceted artist who only needs one name: Jewel.

 

She was just 20 years old when, with nothing more than her voice and

an acoustic guitar, she got the world wondering "Who Will Save Your

Soul."

 

Five albums and nearly a dozen years later, Jewel (born Jewel

Kilcher) is back with another introspective, acoustic guitar-driven

album, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland," which hits stores Tuesday.

 

Much like her 1995 debut, "Pieces of You," Jewel's latest record

explores where she's been and where she's headed through reflective,

folk-style storytelling. Only this time, she's inspired by the

wisdom of experience and backed by a modern rock band.

 

Over lunch in an Italian restaurant, the poet, painter and singer

spoke with The Associated Press about creativity, self-expression

and living a full life.

 

___

 

AP: This new album seems like a departure from the dance-flavored

sounds of your last record, '0304.'

 

Jewel: I definitely see this as a bookends to my first record. For

my first record, I was turning 20, I had gone from a homestead to

living in a car to all of a sudden getting a record deal, so a whole

new phase of my life was beginning. With this record, I was turning

30, and I'm now at the end of that record deal that I signed. So

it's like the end of this phase, in a way, and then looking forward

to what's going on in the future, so I think a similar process

emotionally is taking place.

 

AP: Was it an intentional return to your roots?

 

Jewel: I knew people would say that but it isn't how it happened for

me. When I made '0304,' we were just heading into war. The world was

so serious that I was tired. I was so stressed all the time, I just

wanted to relax and have fun. The birth of big band music was during

wartime, because everybody wants an escape. It was really an

exciting challenge to try and combine modern dance music and make a

modern big band record. It's just what I was interested in. And the

same thing for this. It's just the way the last couple years went

down, turning 30 and that process of looking back at your life.

 

AP: It's been three years since your last record. What have you been

up to?

 

Jewel: If you're not in the public eye everybody thinks you're just

lying on a lounge chair. I didn't travel as much, which was really

nice. And I actually let go of my acting career. I used to think art

was the only goal in life, that everything in life was supposed to

fuel art. And I was really merciless about it. About five years ago

I started thinking I don't want to die unhappy. I don't want to

worship just the god of art. I don't want to look back on my life

and go, 'Ooh, 25 million sold.' I've spent a lot of time just trying

to keep a balance.

 

AP: You sing about this on the new album. Was fame disillusioning

for you?

 

Jewel: I never expected fame to be fun. I was actually petrified. I

was in a unique position of seeing some of the darker parts of

humanity by the time I was 18. The same sharks and predators that

were in civilian life, I expected them to be in the music industry.

I certainly didn't think it was some rainbow that was going to

deliver me to some happy place.

 

The other part of that answer is that, and part of what I really

tried to explore on this record, is we're told a lot of fairy tales

as children, things you're taught to believe in that you might

reevaluate when you get older. From a young age I felt like I was

faced with this decision: Does the cruelty and poverty of life make

you bitter, and how can you resist it? A lot of my music has dealt

with that since the beginning of my career and this record has

really made a point of it. So it isn't that I found the music

business disillusioning or not disillusioning. It's just at some

point you become very willing to let go of any lies and any fairy

tales in exchange for the truth.

 

AP: What's next for you?

 

Jewel: I'm working on a cartoon for Nickelodeon. It's called 'Punk

Rock Angel Girl.' I drew it and invented it or whatever you say. I

don't know how many more records I'll do. I don't know if I'll do

another record. It's funny, when the record label came to me and I

was living in my car, I thought I was in the best negotiating

position, because you couldn't take anything away from me. And then

my first record sold 11 million records, and I was in another great

negotiating position. I didn't need money ever again and I didn't

care if I was famous, so I've always been able to go, 'What am I

into? What's challenging me?'

 

I want to write well. I don't want to be embarrassed for myself

ultimately

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i was wondering when she would turn up?

 

wondering if she will be doing any more acting?

Jewel Returns To Folksy Roots

 

By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer

 

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - She got her first record deal while she was

living in her blue Volkswagen bus. Now she's a multiplatinum,

multifaceted artist who only needs one name: Jewel.

 

She was just 20 years old when, with nothing more than her voice and

an acoustic guitar, she got the world wondering "Who Will Save Your

Soul."

 

Five albums and nearly a dozen years later, Jewel (born Jewel

Kilcher) is back with another introspective, acoustic guitar-driven

album, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland," which hits stores Tuesday.

 

 

i've just been watching the New World with her cousin in it

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Q'Orianka.jpg

Love this song :wub: she's a very good [looking] singer :P

I've added the embedded video to Jewel's new single - Goodbye Alice In Wonderland in the opening post.

Is this gonna be released in the UK? Only on the release schedule I've put "Again and Again" down.

  • 3 weeks later...
I got the album delivered today :cheer: absolutely fantastic so far, only on track three though so far lol.

Love this song :wub: she's a very good [looking] singer :P

 

yeah even with the slightly wonkness of her nose and teeth

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Jewel.jpg

 

however think she has been stretched for this shot :lol:

The biatches at YouTube :angry: I'll find another one. :cry:
Edited first post, changed GAIW video and added Again And Again too.

The biatches at YouTube :angry: I'll find another one. :cry:

You better :angry: :P I too want to discover the delights of Jewel ^_^

You better :angry: :P I too want to discover the delights of Jewel ^_^

Well now you can :cheer: twice as much!!! :wub:

She's okay, a bit too folk for me -_-

A lot of her album songs are actually more folk/rock tbh. I love her! :wub:

  • 2 weeks later...

I bought the album today, excellent stuff.

 

If you want a listen, i'm playing it on Radio Universe right now.

 

Radio Universe

http://82.36.86.160:8000/listen.pls

Ooh cool what is Radio Universe? Drive To You - my fave :wub:

Ooh cool what is Radio Universe? Drive To You - my fave :wub:

 

My radio station on shoutcast.com

:angry: i do like again and again though :D

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