From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V2 #567 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, July 16 1997 Volume 02 : Number 567 Today's Subjects: ----------------- salutations eda! [jenaimarre@juno.com (Jimmy W Ou)] Jewel is a three day champ!!! [Jeff Kirschner ] SJC: Foolish Games Video [CornflkGl@aol.com] MJC: FG, Jewel's Body, etc. ["Christopher S. Penn '97" ] NJC: The Joys of Life [EFraser311@aol.com] NJC: Mandy's Down [That Little Voice Inside Your Head ] Jewel's Grandmother [David Finn <73407.1770@CompuServe.COM>] Re: SJC: Foolish Games Video [Jonders ] Jewel in Anchorage [BenFrancis@webtv.net (Ben Simpelo)] NJC:Blood of the Fold ["Robert Mordin" ] NJC: I need digest #562 [CleoCrazy2@aol.com] Re: NJC: trying to start a thread [stratman7@juno.com (JAMES R BAILEY)] NJC: My Dar Williams plug [naveenrao@juno.com (Naveen Rao)] Re: NJC: The Joys of Life [Chaplain Dan ] NJC: Much Music Sarah McLachlan [Casey Hansen ] Jewel won again!!!!! [Jeff Kirschner ] Re: New Pieces Of You CD [Jason Kolashinski ] TIME Magazine Article: [smithr@agcs.com (Roger Smith)] Re: NJC: My Dar Williams plug [Aliceinw1@aol.com] Vinyl Songs Announced [Jason Kolashinski ] Re: Vinyl and its songs ["Austin H. Mandryk" ] NJC: ICQ [screamgurrl ] Overexposure [Jeremy Falcone ] ~~~my new web page~~~check it out! [Jersey4421@aol.com] NJC: Foolish Games Body Double [bizmarquee@juno.com (Tony K Tran)] d [Justin Hughes ] Fwd: Vinyl CD [Kraut5@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:51:13 -0700 From: jenaimarre@juno.com (Jimmy W Ou) Subject: salutations eda! heya fellow eda's, i'm just taking my time to bid a hello to you all since I'm only a 3 day old angel (i'll get my wings soon, just wait for the bells). Never would I have thought I'd be such a fan, but the first time I ever seen the fabulous Ms. Kilcher was at the Lilith Fair concert in Irvine, Ca last wednesday, and dear god I can say it was a surreal experience. The instant she walked out on stage, shivers ran up and down my spine. To make matters even more surreal, she started off with "Near You Always" singing the first verse acapela... if I didn't know better, I'd say my eyes were getting misty and my lower lip was quivering... The following day when I opened the la times to read a review of the concert, a picture of Jewel had graced the front page of the Calendar section. At first sight, I relapsed into flashbacks of her performance which just made me feel good for the rest of the day... and this was my first Jewel experience. For all you good-hearted eda's who'd help out a newcomer, I'd be absolutely indebted to you if I could get any angelfood, especially copies of "Rare Angels" or "Innerchange Days." The only thing that i could trade would be a live recording of Jewel from night 1 of 1996's KROQ's acoustic christmas performance. Any info or comments would be greatly appreciated, thanks... Jim "...waiting for my Marlon Brando to come crashing through the gate." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:06:04 -0400 () From: Jeff Kirschner Subject: Jewel is a three day champ!!! Well, I was wrong. Jewel's Foolish Games overcame the very formidable challenge of The Tragically Hip to become a three day champ on Mix 99.9's Mix It or Nix It. Tonight she is taking on "Opem Up Baby" the new single from another Canadian band, Big Sugar. This should be a cakewalk for our angel. I'll post the outcome later but my guess is that Jewel will remain triumphant and will go on as four day champ. Take care all. Peace, Jeff :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:17:30 -0400 (EDT) From: CornflkGl@aol.com Subject: SJC: Foolish Games Video Well, I'm thoroughly disgusted. One of the most beautiful , heart wrenching songs I've ever heard has managed to become one of the ugliest, most pitiful videos I've ever seen. I guess I should have known, because I hated the pictures in Rolling Stone... damn it. I don't mind the new version of FG, although my favorite version has to be the one with the cello intro. The video, however, was just stupid. I don't think I could bring myself to watch it fully again. Maybe I'll eventually change my mind and it'll grow on me... it just pisses me off because it said nothing to me about the things I feel Jewel, or the song, represents. Then again, I don't think it said anything to me about ANYTHING, besides making me feel kind of embarassed. It really upsets me that she had such a beautiful base to the video, and she did so little. In three simple songs she's gone from doing a video in a bathroom to this... Rachel , who hates it when one of her favorite songs is ruined ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:18:12 -0400 From: "Christopher S. Penn '97" Subject: MJC: FG, Jewel's Body, etc. Just saw the FG video on MTV. I think the reason it sounds faster than what's on PoY is that... [1] They cut out a BIG chunk of the second stanza, which was also not performed when Jewel did MTV Unplugged. This may be a creative decision on her part, because the timing of the second part was a tiny bit choppy. Still, I liked the old version. [2] The instrumentation was significantly different. Somewhere in the first stanza, we get the string section doing nifty tricks with their instruments, which makes it sound very fast paced. The PoY version has a fairly sedate string section, which makes it seem slower, and IMHO, much more appropriate. The tempo is somewhat faster, but the change in instrumentation makes it seem even faster. Creatively speaking, it was a typical MTV video, engineered for those with 3 second attention spans. Between the makeup and the lighting, Jewel looked like an animated corpse. Also missing was any significant performance energy- if you watch the live performances of FG on Crossroads or Unplugged, she gets extremely emotional- in facial expression, mostly- and that's what helps to power the song. The body language and facial expressions in the video in no way match the content of the song. The coloring of the music is generally dark and dreary, but the video's coloring and lighting looked more appropriate for a rendition of "Under the Sea". The credits really do take up the screen. MTV should consider a smaller font. Honestly? I think the video is terrible, compared to YWMFM. The video is very choppy and what may be artistic license to some looked like a lens out of focus to others. IMHO, I think I'd rather see them air the Crossroads performance- because that gets more to the heart of the song than the current video. There are a lot of film tricks and effects you can use, and it seems like the video producer and the director wanted to try them all in one video. As for her body, Jewel's early life probably had a great deal to do with her bone structure, in addition to genetics. People who do lots of wilderness living when they are young tend to be a bit more robust and "filled out" than those who grow up sedentary or in civilization without pursuing activities. With luck, she can continue to live an active life and remain relatively immune to the diseases of the sedentary. Chris ........................................................................ Christopher S. Penn Nihon Mizumachi Kyokai ........................................................................ I have this theory, that if we're told we're bad Then that's the only idea we'll ever have But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see - Jewel Kilcher ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:20:13 -0600 From: The Infamous Bob B Subject: RE: I'm confused I put this post up there becuase I know the person was a fake and I was = sick of seeing posts that where asking if the fake Jewel was sending = them messages. So I tried to put an end to it. It also was kind of a = joke. Bob Kiss me son of god. They Might be Giants ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:22:55 -0400 (EDT) From: EFraser311@aol.com Subject: NJC: The Joys of Life I had to think real hard for some of these...but others were easy... :) 1. Swimming (competitive)--unfortunately, I'm not allowed to enjoy it right now, and the way physical therapy is going, it doesn't look like I ever will again :( 2. When my sister leaves me alone for a whole day :) 3. Laughing!! 4. Being around people that make me laugh! 5. Naps--these are one of my favorite :) 6. Cloudy days 7. Fall--right when the temperature starts to get cold, and you have to wear jeans and a long sleeve shirt...oh, and there's a slight breeze 8. Snow storms 9. Seeing a shooting star 10. Days off of work! 11. Getting phone calls from friends I haven't talked to in a long while--those are the best!! 12. Driving around late at night when I need to think! There are more, I just can't think of them! I CAN'T WAIT FOR BEARSVILLE!!! Ali :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:23:13 -0700 From: That Little Voice Inside Your Head Subject: NJC: Mandy's Down Man-D just called and said her account is down so she won't be able to get mail within the next 24 hrs. So angels like stay cool and rockin later. Love You Till I Split Open And Melt, Lora ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:12:20 -0700 From: Callie Jean Subject: Last Musician on cover of Time Okay, I hope no one has said this yet, but the last musical artists on = the cover of Time mag were U2 in 1987. The third ever band in the = magazine's history, I might add. WOO HOO! Look, Pez, I posted! Callie "i'm a dream liver, i'm a dream liver, i've got my ticket to zen and i'm = on my way."--the murmurs "i will sing, sing a new song. i will sing, sing a new song."--U2 ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jul 97 20:30:27 EDT From: David Finn <73407.1770@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Jewel's Grandmother Yes Jewel's Grandmother did die. The API story was posted on the list the day she died. The story also ran in a few newspapers that I saw. Don't know about her going back to Alaska but if she was as close to her Grandmother as I was to mine, then she wouldn't let anything get in her way of being at the funeral. David ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:33:36 -0400 From: Jonders Subject: Re: SJC: Foolish Games Video Personally, I don't think a video can ruin a song. They are independent entities, actually strike that thought, it works one way, the video can make a not so great song better, but i've never seen the reverse happen. A good song will hold it's own weight, the video, if good, will just add entertainments! Eugene - -- =========================================================================== "For those of you who think there is no point, next time you breathe in fresh air, try not taking it for granted, and thank whatever it is that you believe in, even if it is nothing." - Jonders (an everydayangel recovering from broken wings) http://remus.rutgers.edu/~jonders ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:36:05 -0700 From: BenFrancis@webtv.net (Ben Simpelo) Subject: Jewel in Anchorage KTUU Channel 2 in Anchorage,AK has an article about Jewel on it's MSNBC website. Short headline story with picture of Jewel performing: http://www.msnbc.com/local/ktuu/ Full story with picture of Jewel receiving the key to the city from Mayor Rick Mystrom: http://www.msnbc.com/local/ktuu/1.HTM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:42:05 PDT From: "Robert Mordin" Subject: NJC:Blood of the Fold Has anyone else red Terry Goodkind's "Blood of thr Fold" If you have please mail me, I have a question I'd like to ask you. VoRTeX - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back by morning. -Arnold Rimmer - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 21:02:28 -0400 (EDT) From: CleoCrazy2@aol.com Subject: NJC: I need digest #562 Hi. Can someone send me digest #562. I didn't get it somehow. Thanks. - Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:59:11 EDT From: stratman7@juno.com (JAMES R BAILEY) Subject: Re: NJC: trying to start a thread MY greatest joy in my life is my wife, and my kids, these are the ones that bring me the most joy a fellow EDA Jim " I'll get you my pretty..............and your little dog too." ~wicked witch of the west On Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:54:17 -0600 The Infamous Bob B writes: >I want to know what are other EDA's joys in life. I'd have to say >mine = >number one is enjoying the company of friends. Which is something I >can = >do every day on the list. > >Bob > >Kiss me son of god. >They Might be Giants > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 19:59:57 -0700 From: naveenrao@juno.com (Naveen Rao) Subject: NJC: My Dar Williams plug Hi everyone, I know you all are sick of getting so much mail, but maybe someone's interested in this. As some of you know, Dar Williams new album, End of the Summer, came out today. Overshadowed by the release of Sarah McLachlan's new album (also very good), Dar is a Great *capital G* folk musician from Massachusetts. For those of you interested in folk music, you've probably already heard of Dar. But for everyone else, you seriously might want to check out Dar's music. She currently has three albums, "The Honesty Room" (first), "Mortal City" (second), and the latest one, "The End Of Summer". On your next trip to Blockbuster Music or other music store, give her music a listen. She's playing at a few of the Lilith Fair dates I believe, but hasn't been emphasized as much as she deserves to be. If you like Jewel's music, then you'll probably like Dar a whole lot. She's definitely more "folky" than Jewel, and a lot more wordy, but she's very good. If you haven't heard her, I would recommend her first album, The Honesty Room, to hear what she started out as. This is still my favorite album, and shows Dar's vocal and guitar talent. IMO, her guitar talent shown on the first album surpasses that heard in any of Jewel's songs. She uses a wide variety of instruments in the background, but it's usually just her on guitar. Her other two albums are very good, but they're a little more hard to get used to if you've not been listening to Dar for a long while. She, like many of the musicians out there, needs help and needs to be heard. So anyways, please check her out! Naveen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 21:17:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Chaplain Dan Subject: Re: NJC: The Joys of Life On Tue, 15 Jul 1997 EFraser311@aol.com wrote: > I had to think real hard for some of these...but others were easy... :) > > 1. Swimming (competitive)--unfortunately, I'm not allowed to enjoy it right > now, and the way physical therapy is going, it doesn't look like I ever will > again :( Egads it can't be true, what with being a competitive swimmer most of my life it has just got to be the best way to relieve stress and to just take a whole new attitude on life floating peacefully along. > 3. Laughing!! > 4. Being around people that make me laugh! But of course that goes without saying! > 5. Naps--these are one of my favorite :) Of course exspecially when you are standing and seem to be reading. > 8. Snow storms Boy do I miss that white stuff. For those of us in the southeast, It is a heavenly view on life that we are missing. > 9. Seeing a shooting star > 10. Days off of work! > 11. Getting phone calls from friends I haven't talked to in a long > while--those are the best!! Of course especially when they are calling from Hawaii and you are in Ga. Thanks Ali, I just could not add the fact that alot of these were close for me as well. Dan Perugini dperugin@medmail.mcg.edu "One man, one goal, one mission, one heart, one goal, just one solution, one flash of light, yeah, one god, one vision" Queen "One Vision" "Get up, get back on your feet You're the one they can't beat and you know it" Styx "Fooling Yourself" "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see that right, let us strive to finish the work we are in." Abraham Lincoln ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:19:05 -0700 From: Casey Hansen Subject: NJC: Much Music Sarah McLachlan Hi, are there any Canadians out there who taped the Much Music Sarah McLachlen thing? Because this American didn't get it! Danke, Casey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 21:32:37 -0400 () From: Jeff Kirschner Subject: Jewel won again!!!!! As I predicted, Foolish Games beat Big Sugar with 75% of the vote. This means that Jewel is now four-time champ. If she wins tomorrow, she will retire as champ, and Foolish Games will enter into the Mix hall of fame. Cool! Take care all. Peace, Jeff :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Kolashinski Subject: Re: New Pieces Of You CD On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Chris Phillips wrote: > I wondered if they were going to replace the original version of YWMFM > w\ the new version. They did the same thing with Tori Amos's BOYS FOR > PELE. They replaced the orignal version of "Talula" with the "tornado > version" > > Chris > Yeah, My girlfriend is the "Tori Fan" (have got her big on Jewel though), but Tori released I think several versions of Boys For Pele, each time updating her newest single from the original to the remix version. So there are many versions of Boys for Pele out there. Would be cool if Jewel would do that, but then maybe not. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:48:28 -0700 From: smithr@agcs.com (Roger Smith) Subject: TIME Magazine Article: Here is the article from TIME Magazine for those of you who can't get a copy.... TITLE: GALAPALOOZA! Lilith Fair - a traveling festival featuring female folk-pop stars - is rocking the music world. By Christopher John Farley Summer in America, a time for blood-drenched, dumbed-down action- adventure movies high on corpses, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, but low on heart. Summer in America. Turn on the TV and watch your tobacco-chawing interleague baseball games; lay down your $49.95 and catch a championship-boxing match complete with an outrageous ear-chewing incident. Summer in America. Also a season for music: strutting macho megatours; draining weekend-long rock festivals; sweaty dance clubs throbbing with testosterone-filled techno. Dial up Ticketmaster; go to an outdoor alternative-rock show in a field, in a stadium; see the teeming, churning mosh pits, the muscular bare-chested frat boys, the sharp, scabbed elbows, the clomping Reeboked feet, the choking clouds of dust obscuring the stage...What is summer were different? What is the hottest season of the year flexed a bit less and cared a bit more? What if the months of July and August, at least when it comes to music, were a tad more feminine and a bit more feminist? What was it that Virginia Woolf wrote back in 1929? " A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Might the same be true of pop music? This summer female pop stars are clearing out space for themselves, and the season's usual sea of masculinity is parting. The debut CD by Alaskan pop-folkie Jewel, 'Pieces of You' (Atlantic), has sold more than 5 million copies and is still riding high on the charts. Erykah Badu, with her poetry-slam soulfulness, has sold more than 1 million copies of her brilliant new CD 'Baduizm' (Kedar Entertainment/Universal) and is a headliner on this summer's neo-soul Smokin' Grooves Tour. And Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan has masterminded the summer's most talked-about musical event: Lilith Fair, a traveling show featuring a rotating lineup of 61 female singer-songwriters, including Cassandra Wilson, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole, Jewel and McLachlan herself. There's a different melody in the air: macho is out; empathy is in. "People really want to be given hope," says Atlantic Records senior vice president Ron Shapiro, "and these female artists are giving young people a life preserver." Call the new sound coffeehouse pop. It has a comforting warmth, a topping of sugary froth, and it provides a kind of buzz, like sipping a cappuccino in a corner cafe. It is led, mostly, by female singer-songwriters, writing primarily from a feminine point of view. On her hit song 'Bitch', Meredith Brooks declares she wants to "reclaim a word that had taken on a really derogatory meaning." But ideology or no, these women are unafraid to celebrate their own sensuality. On the inside flap of her album, Jewel poses in a sexy yellow swimsuit. This new music has the vigor of youth - McLachlan is 29, Jewel just 23 - and yet it echoes with sounds of three decades past: the crisp emotionality of Joni Mitchell, the artful lyrics of Bob Dylan. While rooted in acousitc folk, it draws freely on blues, jazz and even hip-hop. "There's no such thing necessarily as a folk song or pop song," says jazz singer Wilson. "What it is is not as important as how you do it, and how you do it is not as important as why." Coffeehouse pop is gentle but not tame - there is a quiescent anger within it over social issues and matters of the heart. The songs seek to engage life, not shrink from it. "There was an innocence that prevailed in the 60's that was crushed by the assassination of J.F.K. and King," says Jewel. "Our parents have become disillusioned. It is their disillusionment that we deal with in many ways; it's a kind of crust we have to break through." In the title song on 'Pieces of You', Jewel attacks religious and sexual intolerance, her voice breaking as she sings "You say he's a faggot . Are you afraid you're just the same?"; on of Chapman's newest songs is titled 'The Rape of the World.' But unlike alternative rock, this music is less about stoking cynicism and provoking anger as it is about overcoming both. This is healing music, devoid of irony and flush with optimism and unabashed emotion. "Apathy is boring," says Cole. "It takes real courage to have hope." This is music that wants to feel, no matter how much it hurts. Says Jewel: "People are hungry for emotiveness. They want bare honesty, emotional blood-and-bone honesty." The Lilith Fair, which kicked off July 5 in George, Wash., and will play 29 more cities in the U.S. and Canada over the next two months, is a coming-out party for the new sound, a chance for this generation of female singer-songwriters to meet and greet each other, jam onstage together, share audiences, and perhaps, start a folk-pop revolution. It should be noted, though, that some of the recent talk about a surge in "women's music" could be seen as a veiled slur. The music women make is too varied for a single category and the mediagenic notion of some sort of "female sound" could turn into a kind of velvet prison. Women, of course, have been major players in music throughout the rock era, so the idea that gals with guitars is something new is an insult to such folk-pop pioneers as Odetta and Joan Baez. The number of women at the top of the charts of late, however, and the impressive number of those who are playing Lilith is indeed something fresh and invigorating. "Of all the tours that you do during the summer," says Fiona Apple, "this is pretty much the coolest one." The opening show in George's scenic Gorge Amphitheater was proof of that. It was an intimate extravaganza - with condom giveaways and information booths on issues like rape and reproductive rights - - and the performances began with a hush and built to a dreamy sigh. Lilith offers the audience three stages, in separate locations, of gradually descending size and occupied by performers at staggered time intervals. McLachlan was the first act up, playing a spare, unassuming set by herself, holding only her acoustic guitar, on the third and smallest stage, which was about the size of a tollbooth. Cassandra Wilson, on the medium-size second stage later in the day, was the Fair's most disarming delight - her smart, laughing, 30-minute set began with a few dozen people watching, but ended with several hundred, who gave her a standing ovation. Jewel, on the first and largest stage, was the high point. On record, her voice sometimes has a tepid blond wispiness; in concert, it has a crackling, sparks-flying, campfire warmth. Finally McLachlan, with her full band, appeared on the first stage to close out the day with a serene set that shimmered like twilight. How does that Joni Mitchell song go? "I've looked at life from both sides now..." McLachlan has certainly seen both sides in the music business. As the Founding Mother of Lilith - and the only performer playing every date - she is sure to win a wide new audience for her lush, thoughtful songcraft. Her new CD, 'Surfacing' (Arista), out this week, is an elegant, old-soul album, with several standout songs, including the bewitching 'Building a Mystery' and the ravishing 'Adia'. Radio is already all over it. But not too long ago, McLachlan couldn't buy airplay. "When my album 'Fumbling Towards Ecstasy' cam out [in 1994], a lot of radio stations said they couldn't play me because they already had another singer-songwriter on their playlist," McLachlan says. "In this case it was Tori Amos. That was very marginalizing because our music is completely different. They were saying, 'Go away - we've added our token female this week.'" This Alanis Morissette hit. Fifteen million copies sold. Next came Jewel. More than 70 weeks on 'Billboard' charts and still going. And McLachlan's own album 'Fumbling' ended up going double platinum. Says Atlantic Records co-chairman Val Azzoli: "Honestly, we in the record business are not leaders. We are a bunch of sheep. When one kind of record does well, we all follow with more like it." Danny Goldberg, the current CEO of Mercury Records, who signed Jewel to Atlantic before leaving that label, says there's a major musical shift under way. "I associate it with generations of high school students coming along who want ownership of their own culture, who want something different from the people who came before them," says Goldberg, who in the past managed Bonnie Raitt and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. "So this group is going for a female-leaning, optimistic music, in contrast to the grunge, gagsta-rap chapter that is waning." The rise of Jewel and other female singer-songwriters has come hand in hand with the growth of a whole new generation-spanning radio format known in the music industry as "modern adult contemporary." Modern AC focuses on acts that are adult friendly but still cool, performers with a folkie feel, such as Counting Crows, Blues Traveler, Sister Hazel and the Wallflowers. The format also tends to feature female singer-songwriters such as Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin and Jewel - all of whom just happen to be on the Lilith tour. "The blossoming of modern AC was so important," says Terry McBride, who manages McLachlan. "Artists like Sarah, Fiona and Jewel have always been at the bottom of playlists, but about 14 months ago, we started getting some attention. It helped us to get the exposure we needed to be able to put on a Lilith. It's helped all these artists get to the next step up." The format has a special appeal to female listeners: it allows them to hear someone like themselves instead of, say, someone like Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. And record companies like it because women tend to buy more records then men. "Years ago, there used to be a stigma held by rock-radio programmers against playing too many female artists," says Bob Waugh, assistant programming director at moder-rock radio station WHFS in Washington. "Now there has been such an explosion of female artists and female-led bands coming to prominence that the perception has changed." And Lilith Fair should change it even more. McLachlan, in conceiving the event, drew inspiration from the proto-feminist Hebrew legend of Lilith, Adam's first wife. Unlike Eve, Lilith was not spawned from Adam's rib but was created by God out of dust, just as Adam was. But as soon as Lilith and Adam were joined together, they began to quarrel. Adam said: "It is your duty to obey me." Lilith replied, "We are both equal...and I will not be submissive to you." Set that last quote to music and you'd have a fitting anthem for Lilith Fair. McLachlan tried out the concept of an all-female tour on four test dates last year, expanding the idea this summer. "There wasn't necessarily a theme we were looking for, but we all wanted a diverse show," she says. "So we made sure to get people like Cassandra Wilson, who is totally doing her own thing with jazz and folk." Wilson is happy to be involved. "The vibe that I bring to this is the voice of free black women," she says. "Black women who are confident, sure of themselves in their sexuality, confident in their spirituality." Yet more black artists deserve to be on Lilith's bill. Lilith organizers say they tried to reach out; Erykah Badu was offered a slot on the tour but turned it down. On the other hand, Laura Love, a black, folk-tinged, Seattle-based singer-songwriter with a fine new album, 'Octoroom', asked to be part of Lilith and was passed over (the organizers say that with 584 submissions, they couldn't take everybody). Still, Lilith is a welcome development. Right now, pop music is flaccid. The prefab hype of Spice Girls, the sugar-shock kiddie ditties of Hanson, the admirable wholesomeness but inexcusable tiresomeness of Bob Carlisle, the horrific power screeching of Celine Dion - turn it off. Turn it all off. It's meaningless olestra music, artificial and nutrient-free. The Lilith tour and the coffeehouse-pop crowd can help halt pop's garbage-chute slide. Such music, on the surface, is gentle enough to slip onto radio playlists, but down deep there are ideas, there is emotion, there is life: the haunting, melancholic feel of McLachlan's new tune 'Angel'; Fiona Apple exploring her post-rape trauma on her heart-rending 'Sullen Girl'; Erykah Badu imagining the life of a gangsta's girlfriend on her soulful 'Otherside of the Game'. Other promising acts from this school are on the way. An advance copy of British trip-hop folkie Pauline Taylor's just finished album indicates she is a blazing talent; Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Kacy Crowley is another one to watch, judging by an early listen to her confident debut, 'Anchorless'; and Chantal Kreviazuk's just out 'Under These Rocks and Stones' is also a charmer. Perhaps someday we'll see Taylor, Crowley or Kreviazuk at Lilith. McLachlan wants the tour to become an annual event; she even foresees a day when men are invited. (One of this year's bands, the Cardigans, has men, but the lead singer is a woman.) Says McLachlan: "We hope this will pave the way for more female performers. We hope it's a great thing for young women too. When I was growing up, we had very few role models to look up to. This is a great example of strong women out there doing something they love, doing something really positive." Lilith Fair is already doing something positive for the summer concert business, which was in the doldrums. Tickets for Lilith, which cost between $12.50 and $46, are going fast in most of the remaining cities and in some cases are already gone. The first week of shows were all sellouts. What was that line Virginia Woolf wrote in 'A Room of One's Own'? "I should remind you how much depends on you, and what influence you can exert upon the future." At Lilith you can sense the summer shifting, the musical center moving. Said 18-year-old fairgoer Cindy Chen of Seattle: "I don't like [alternative rock]. Too much moshing and men throwing themselves around. It's dangerous." Lilith, at the show in George, proved to be a safe, sacred spot. Here were teenage girls in cutoff jeans and bikini tops, middle aged moms in baggy T shirts and running shoes. Here a woman breast-fed her baby during Jewel's set; here fans sat dead quiet, 'listening' to the lyrics. Here a woman wore a T shirt marked "dyke" with a parodic Nike swoosh, while two other women walked comfortably hand in hand. Here a man in a concession-stand line talked excitedly about Sarah McLachlan's song-writing skills. Said Shellie Knawa, 30, a Seattle computer-manual writers: "This is finally a chance for our voice, women, to be heard." It's still summer. But the season's a-changin'. - --With reporting by David E. Thigpen/George and Lisa McLaughlin/New York ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 21:58:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Aliceinw1@aol.com Subject: Re: NJC: My Dar Williams plug i know- dar williams is great. my mom is one of the people who promotes and arranges the summer free concerts in my town (south orange, nj) and i specifically asked her to try and get dar williams. well she did for when i was going to be in reno, nv. so i missed not only her concert but a party hosted by my mom and her friend for her. jenny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:56:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Kolashinski Subject: Vinyl Songs Announced You've all probably heard this, but Addicted to Noise (a cool music zine on the net) announced what the four extra songs will be on the vinyl...Rocker Girl, Emily (both off Phyllis), Everything Breaks Sometime (a GREAT SONG that I've been hoping would be released as a studio recording :) ), and Angel Needs a Ride (off Knock Out II which I've been searching for endlessly). All in all, great selections. With the announcement of these, Jewel on Time magazine (which I agree, kinda robs Sarah and others who should also be on there), and the new Foolish Games video, what a great time to be an EDA and a Jewel fan! For those of you who are going to Bearsville, I hope you have the best of fun and drive safely! I'm bummed because this is the second time I can't make it.... take care, Jason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 22:37:49 -0400 From: "Austin H. Mandryk" Subject: Re: Vinyl and its songs >"Everything Breaks," "Cold Song," and "Angel Needs a Ride." ........ i was really hoping she was going to release "Everything Breaks (sometime)" on her Fitz Creek album. does anybody know if there's still a chance? i don't have a quality version of the song, and, alas, i don't have a functioning record player. - -Austin __________________________ Austin H. Mandryk mandryk@scasd.k12.pa.us eforest.org/~mandryk/ imagine ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:41:16 -0700 From: screamgurrl Subject: NJC: ICQ Sorry to post this but.... Does anyone of you guys has ICQ...... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 21:36:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Falcone Subject: Overexposure Hello! I haven't written to the list much, but have enjoyed your updates and news on everything, from this Zach fellow to concert reviews. Anyway, it seems that of late, many people have complained about overexposure. The thing is, more and more people are finding Jewel, buying the CD and finding out that she is one of the few musicians with actual talent. No one writing her songs for her (not even Babyface), no one using high tech devices to make her sound better, and yet she appeals to all age groups, male and female, whereas artists like Tori, for instance, have mainly appealed to teens and young adult females. Jewel's appeal is spreading. And that is wonderful! As long as she is comfortable with it, there shouldn't be any problems! I guess I just kind of wonder why people are upset. I believe one person mentioned her being a flop because of the quick and heavy exposure. Trust me, music execs all over America are watching Jewel closely. My father deals with many of these people in his business (he is VP of Sennheiser, high end mics used by performers) and they all seem to thing that Jewel is the next musical superstar. They dismiss acts such as No Doubt and The Wallflowers as "talentless". Anyway, to me at least I think Jewel will be fine, and w/over 250 songs, there will always be something new! Well, I have enjoyed reading your comments and would love to hear from some of you! Jeremy Falcone "Grace: the refinement of a soul through time." - Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:16:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jersey4421@aol.com Subject: ~~~my new web page~~~check it out! Hello fellow EDA's.....how are you all? Well, I just finished my web page today. I wasn't going to do one, but before work I was bored and decided to do one. It shows all the movies I have seen in 1996....with a rating for each one. (I do a 1-10 scale, not a star scale....I explain it all on my page.) I also have the movies I have seen this year also. Since 1993, I have wriiten down all the movies I have seen.....I am a big movie...hopefully one day I will be in the movies.....I am thinking about moving out to California to try it out with a friend of mine. If we decide that we are going to do it, we are leaving Jersey in Jan....the reason I am writing this is because I want to know if anyone out in CA. has any info for me...whether it be on apartments or whatever.....let me know! Also, I have 2 screen names....Jersey4421 is the one I use for this list, but I have another oneand that is what the web page is under.....so here is the address.....go if you want.......thanks.....Mike http://members.aol.com/ambroinc/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:27:55 -0400 From: bizmarquee@juno.com (Tony K Tran) Subject: NJC: Foolish Games Body Double Hello Again EDA's!! Probably like most of you, i recorded the video for Foolish Games which debuted today. I have watched it over pretty many times today and i totally dig the video despite what all of you say!! Maybe not everyone of Jewel's videos have to have a clearcut and deep meaning! Even though to me it seemed like it was trying to send a message of desperation and wanting to be free. For example the look that Jewel gives you that her hair is all messed up and in black and white with little colors is an example of desperation.. and the horse representing freedom. Also the shots with Jewel in teh white and black dresses. But if you guys got it on tape, put it in slow motion during when she sings...and youd speak of your loved ones... And you can see the body double!!! =) She is wearing the white dress and the camera rotates to the doubles side and they show her face for a split second! =) She does look like Jewel but her face and eyes are a little different! Check it out everyone and tell me what you think! =) Also a pause of silence for Gianni Versace. He was one of the best even though he was rumored to be part of the Mafia. He did some innovative stuff with dresses and asymetrical stuff. So all due respect to him. Sorry for the long post. - -Tony "and youd speak of your loved ones as i clumsily strummed my guitar..." -jewel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 08:25:51 -0800 From: Justin Hughes Subject: d Hi! Regarding the new Jewel album that's coming out on the 29th...will it be available on CDs too? what about cassettes? "I got my eggs i got my pancakes too" - -a quote from Jewel Kilcher Sincerely, Justin Hughes ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:57:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Kraut5@aol.com Subject: Fwd: Vinyl CD you bet it does superdeformed angel. Yikes!!!!!!!! xDieterx "It's o.k. not to drink." - --------------------- Forwarded message: From: SDAngelLI@aol.com Sender: owner-jewel@smoe.org To: Jewel@smoe.org Date: 97-07-13 14:01:15 EDT In a message dated 97-07-13 12:09:17 EDT, you write: << I was wondering: what is a vinyl cd anyways >> Does this make anybody else feel old. SuPeRdEfOrMeD aNgEl ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V2 #567 ***************************