Jewel articles

[Little Bird]

Live Daily have an article about the album and Jewe'ls upcoming shows

[Little Bird]

Big article about Jewel joining the Lifetime campaign to Stop Breast Cancer for Life

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[last_dance_rodeo]

thanks kiera

[Little Bird]

Another article about it

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[Little Bird]

Nice interview by Reuters

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[last_dance_rodeo]

thanks kiera, i really liked that interview. It's really coold because it seems like jewel is very happy with just the littlest things in life

[ItBeThatWay27]

WOw I really like that photo of her smiling they have on there. It's just so simple but it's one of the best pictures of her I've ever seen of her


That is an awesome article
ha! I love this quote "and she said, 'Jewel, fame is high school and Madonna is the prom queen so just get over it'."
ok I'm sure I am way behind but what is a blackberry?

[last_dance_rodeo]

like a pda, personal data assistant i think

[Little Bird]

That's what PDA stands for but a blackberry is more basic than that.

Technically, it is a mobile email device. You can view proper emails and attachments such as word document and excel spreadsheets. Oh and it's also a mobile phone. They get more and more functionality as time goes on. But that's progression for ya. They are more along the lines of a mobile phone with email so it's more accessible for people to get Blackberry's than a full scale PDA with Smartphones. My husband has a PDA Smartphone with a GPS Unit and it cost a lot of money. Blackberry's really are just for email and mobile phone calls but PDA's really are handheld computers.

I used to have one for work. Personally, I hated it but they are useful. We were one of the first companies in Ireland to have them so I was one of the first testers to get hold of one here. I now have a laptop for work coz the Blackberry just isn't enough for what I need.

[Little Bird]

Here's a not so positive mention of Jewel from Canada.com

Misty Harris, CanWest News Service
Published: Monday, November 06, 2006
The airwaves are alive with the sound of yodelling in what could be the unlikeliest trend to hit mainstream radio in decades. From chart-topping pop singer Gwen Stefani to hip-hop pianist Nellie McKay and hipster DJ Bart Plantenga, artists of every stripe are finding inspiration in the vocal stylings of mountaineers.

Although Billboard darlings such as Shakira, Bette Midler, the Cranberries, Jewel and Canada's own Alanis Morissette have been getting their falsetto on for years, it wasn't until recently that the sheepherder's cry of "yodel-ay-ee-oooo" evolved from geek to chic.

Stefani channels Julie Andrews in her new single Wind It Up, which leads off with an old-school yodel and sample of The Sound of Music's The Lonely Goatherd. Hip-hop pianist McKay unleashes an alterna-yodel on her just-released sophomore recording Pretty Little Head.

Plantenga, who has DJ'd everywhere from the anarchist Radio Libertaire in Paris to the highly influential WFMU freeform radio in New Jersey, recently dropped the compilation CD The Rough Guide to Yodel and is now in Switzerland filming a documentary on the genre.

And that's just scratching the surface of Alpine fever.

Platinum-selling hip-hop artist Mike Jones puts the ‘yo' into yodel on his rap track Cuttin. A jazz-infused yodel can be heard on the new Free Spirits' Coltrane tribute album For JC. And 11-year-old Taylor Ware yodelled her way into the top three on this summer's guilty TV pleasure America's Got Talent.

"(Yodelling) being put out there by the stars of the moment, young people are going to listen and probably think it's a cool new thing," says Norm Gwaltney.

For the past 10 years, Gwaltney, a self-taught Indiana warbler, has offered what's likely the Net's only Certificate of Yodelology through yodelcourse.com. He says trained singers tend to struggle the most with their yodelling education because they've been taught not to break their voices -- something required, on a controlled basis, to free one's inner Maria von Trapp.

But for those who push forward, the rewards are many.

"In small doses, yodelling is a fabulous way to grab the attention of your audience and express yourself," says Gwaltney. "You can't hear it or do it without smiling."

According to Gage Averill, dean of music at the University of Toronto, interest in yodelling has been bubbling beneath the surface for years. Although artists such as Morissette and the Cranberries weren't trilling "yodel-ay-ee-oooo" in their 1990s heyday, he says their use of vocal breaks as a means of expressing angst and a resistance to gender oppression played a key role in what we're hearing now.

Averill believes the current incarnations of yodelling on pop radio, however, are more about marketing than honouring the past.

"It's more like a plundering of recorded expressive history," he says. "Kind of a grab-bag approach to music."

Steve McLean, a Canadian music journalist and news editor at Chart magazine, says yodelling has achieved cult status through such rock classics as Hocus Pocus, a bizarre 1971 yodel odyssey by the Dutch band Focus. But he's unconvinced the style has the legs to dominate today's Top 40.

"It can make a neat little hook but it's not a truly pop art form," says McLean. "If any current artist was going to truly revive (yodelling), Jewel probably would have been the one to do it since she takes it seriously… But her career seems to be on the downturn right now."

[kjm030584]

her carreer is on the downturn right now?! Well... that's depressing.

[Little Bird]

It's neither up nor down as far as I am concerned. I think it's exactly where jewel wants it to be.

[ItBeThatWay27]

I agree. I don't think Jewel intends to have sale like Madonna or Britney Spears (who's career is TRULY on the downturn he he).. Jewel just wants to be able to make music. Of coarse she wants her records to do well but it's not about fame or money so I think in her eyes and ours, she is doing well.

[JThisWay620]

Ouch that comment hurt, he had to rub it in huh?
And no Gwen Stefanie does NOT yodel her voice is computerized and processed to get her to do that trick. Who knows maybe, but Stefanie does not have the range to do anything like that. Let's see Stefanie do Chime Bells.......
It amazes me how Jewel alwys sems ahead of her time..I mean look at Nelly Fertado,she was a soft spoken singer and now she;s cub hopping in her videos. When Jewel "does it" it's selling out when Nelly does it it's acceptable.
Jewel has yodeled for decades and now it's only getting recognized in mainstream music?
Jewel need not resort to a one trick pony thing to get attention and do "what's in." Sigh...ah well

[Little Bird]

Nah. Jewel doesn't need to anything except be true to herself and that's all we ask of her.

I don't like it when she intentionally tries to conform to something. If she does it off her own bat then great, if not, then it's just being false. And I don't think any of us would like a false Jewel.

Funny how one small comment in an article has spun this conversation. I like it