Jewel Shares New Songs

Some artists insist on keeping the nitty-gritty of their songwriting hidden well away from the public, but Jewel is quite the opposite—she has always made a practice of playing unrecorded songs in concert and allowing fans to share in the development of her creative process. Lately she has even been posting brand-new songs for her fans to examine and critique at her official website.

On Oct. 1, she posted the words to a song written with Nashville tunesmith Dave Berg, “What You Are,” and four days later she shared a homemade video of herself performing it acoustically. During the same period she posted lyrics to more new songs, including “You Lied” and “Winter of Love,” and even discussed a few of the stories behind them. To read, hear and see them all, go to jeweljk.com and click on “Jewel’s Blog.”

• October 23, 2009
• story by Chris Neal

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