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                                "*": "__noToc__ \n{{JewelWiki}}\n{| cellspacing=\"3\" \n|- valign=\"top\"\n|width=\"75%\" class=\"MainPageBG\" style=\"border: 1px solid #c6c9ff; color: #000000; background-color: WhiteSmoke; padding: 1em 1em 1em 1em;\"|\n[[File:jewelwiki.jpg|right|link=|frame]]\nThe JewelWiki is the place to come for Jewel lyrics, tablature, setlists, and as a way to connect with other fans. If you are looking for the latest Jewel news, your best bet will be to check out [http://www.twitter.com/jeweljk Jewel's twitter feed] or the fan message boards ([http://forum.edas.space Everday Angels Forum]). If there's something you don't see here, you can add it! If you need help and would like to contribute, e-mail me, jewelwiki@gmail.com.<br><br>\n\n===[[Picking Up the Pieces (album)|Picking Up the Pieces]]===\n[[image:Picking_Up_the_Pieces_album_cover.jpg|220px|left|thumb|link=http://www.amazon.com/Picking-Up-Pieces-Jewel/dp/B0123VLHXM/|'''Picking Up the Pieces''']]\n<br>\n'''''Picking Up the Pieces''''' \u2014  Latest Album by Jewel<br>\nJewel has never had a case of writer\u2019s block; if need be, she can write on command. \u201cI\u2019m lucky for that,\u201d the singer-songwriter says with a laugh, playing down the fact that over the past few decades she\u2019s penned hundreds of poignant songs, many of which she\u2019s been performing in concert for over two decades but has chosen not to record. Jewel knows that at this point in her life \u2013 after selling millions of albums and establishing herself as one of the most successful musicians of her generation \u2013 she could take many routes: she could wait on releasing a new album for years at a time, strictly choosing to perform live instead; or perhaps she\u2019d focus on her memoir, the forthcoming [[Never Broken]]; or be satisfied she wrote two children\u2019s books and a pair of successful children\u2019s albums. That\u2019s not Jewel though. Jewel remains a storyteller. The itches are ever-present to document her thoughts and perceptions in musical form. <br>\n<br>\n\u201cIt was the time in my life to do this,\u201d the Alaskan-born music icon says bluntly, reflecting on her decision to record, produce and now release Picking Up the Pieces, her first \u201cproper\u201d album of new studio material in five years and a self-described return to the territory explored on her landmark 1995 debut, [[Pieces of You (album)|Pieces of You]]. \u201cIt\u2019s something I needed for myself.\u201d <br>\n<br>\nPerhaps due to Jewel's desire to confront the darker side of life head on, her inimitable vocals sound as emotionally potent here as on her earliest work, conveying an unrelenting desire to share herself once more, a poet and troubadour on a lifelong journey of reflection. \u201cMy mission was to try and make a record where I didn\u2019t feel diluted,\u201d she explains of a 14-track collection of songs that finds the singer baring her soul and exploring a wide range of sonic textures, from sparse to exotic, in a manner few have ever treaded so successfully.<br>\n<br>\nPicking Up the Pieces, which Jewel describes as a \u201csinger-songwriter\u2019s record,\u201d and one she hopes her influences, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Rickie Lee Jones and mentors, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard and Neil Young, would be proud of, is the project many have been waiting patiently to hear for years. With her vast and wide-ranging catalogue, which is rapidly approaching 1000 songs - all written over the last quarter century, Jewel has indeed become one of the premiere singer-songwriters of our time.  <br>\n<br>\nOver the course of the album, Jewel conveys the emotional turmoil of life during it\u2019s most difficult and challenging moments, with genuine emotional pain fueling her vocals and reaching a new intensity level with her music in the process.  A singer cannot transmit feelings into listeners without tapping into those feelings and this collection of songs provided the opportunity to dig deep into her own experiences. <br>\n<br>\nMeditations on lost love and broken relationships are prevalent on Picking Up the Pieces, with the potent and poetic \"[[Love Used To Be]]\" and the hopeless despair of \"[[It Doesn't Hurt Right Now]],\" a penetrating collaboration with Rodney Crowell that explores the aftermath of an affair. Previously unrecorded live staples from the original Pieces Of You era like \"[[Everything Breaks]],\" \"[[Here When Gone]],\" \"[[His Pleasure Is My Pain]]\" and \"[[Carnivore]],\" which manages to convey heartbreak, hostility and defiance simultaneously, are also among them.  Family relationships are also eloquently explored, with the self-examining \"[[Family Tree]]\" and \u201c[[My Father's Daughter]]\u201d \u2013 a stunning autobiographical collaboration with country legend Dolly Parton.  <br>\n<br>\n\u201cI was trying to keep my mind quiet and honestly get back to something I feel like I\u2019d lost touch with in my life,\u201d she adds of the reflective LP. \u201cIt was really an exercise in shutting out fear. I was giving myself permission to be exactly who and what I was.\u201d<br>\n<br>\nTo be sure, this is an album about self-awareness: namely, the way it affects our evolution, maturation and acceptance. \u201cIt really felt like returning to a part of me that I didn\u2019t mean to lose, but with time and relationships and life and surviving and dealing you take on new things and not all of them are great,\u201d she admits. The recording process for the album, which Jewel describes as a \u201cvery holistic process,\u201d centered on \u201ccarving away things about myself and returning to a sense of myself that I really needed.\u201d<br>\n<br>\nThe 41-year-old singer didn\u2019t come to this place easily however \u2013 a rough childhood, a recent divorce and countless moments of introspection led her here. Still, as when she was a homeless teenager, hitchhiking the country and finding herself along the way, she persevered. Specifically, Jewel spent the past few years hashing out her new album in Nashville, hunkering down at a workmanlike clip with an accomplished band comprised of several of her mentor Neil Young\u2019s longtime musical comrades. Typically, she\u2019d log studio time for several hours a day, multiple days a week while her four-year-old-son, Kase, was at school. <br>\n<br>\nSelf-producing the album, she says, was something that came as a matter of unfortunate circumstances. \u201cMy original goal was to have Ben Keith do it,\u201d she says of the late Pieces Of You producer. In his absence, she took it upon herself to man the boards, a challenge, she says, only in teaching herself to forget all the music-industry shortcuts she\u2019d picked up throughout her career: \u201cWhen I made my first record I knew nothing so I was able to make a very pure record. To try and do that 20 years later and forget all the quote-unquote clever stuff about the business is challenging.\u201d  The absence of polished production and studio trickery reveals a clear focus on vocals and the instrumental empathy between Jewel and her musicians.  This was a risky approach that could have led to disaster but instead has helped her reach a new level of lyrical and musical unity. One of the finest examples of this is \"Here When Gone,\" which is virtually unrecognizable from its solo acoustic incarnation, now vacillating between a haunting groove and a shuffling swing.  About this track, she says, \"Thanks to the chemistry between these musicians and I, this song has finally found its place.\"  <br>\n<br>\nIf returning to several songs she\u2019d written at a much younger age \u2013 not to mention participating in countless moments of introspection \u2013 for Picking Up the Pieces, has taught Jewel anything, it\u2019s that no matter her place in life, at her core she\u2019s a singer-songwriter. \u201cIt isn\u2019t just thinking about you,\u201d she explains of her natural-born craft. \u201cIt\u2019s thinking about the world and wanting to rise with people. You have a social obligation. You\u2019re aware that there\u2019s more than just you.<br>\n<br>\nPicking Up the Pieces, she concludes, is born out of a simple purpose: it\u2019s about \u201cgetting very comfortable with saying \u201cThis is just me. These are my thoughts. These are my feelings. This is my poetry.\u201d<br>\n\n==Recent Changes==\n{{Special:RecentChanges/5}}\n\n\n|width=\"25%\" class=\"MainPageBG\" style=\"border:1px solid #c6c9ff; padding: .5em 1em 1em; color: #000; background-color: GhostWhite\"|\n<center><small> for the official Jewel website visit: </small></center>\n<center><font size=3> '''JewelJK.com </font></center>\n\n[[image:JewelJK2016-04-07.jpg|240px|center|link=http://www.jeweljk.com/]]\n----\n{{#widget:Twitter timeline|id=jeweljk}}\n----\nTo join the JewelWiki, [[Special:Userlogin|register here]].\n\n*[[:Special:Wantedpages|Needed Pages]] - Pages that have links within the site, but have not been created yet.  If you have info on any of these topics, please feel free to add that page.\n\n===Contact Webmaster===\n*Send items to [mailto:jewelwiki@gmail.com webmaster] if you want to include them in the wiki, but can't figure out how to do it. Include any source or credit details.\n|}"
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