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Alaska: The Last Frontier, Jewel’s Pioneer Upbringing and Her Music

September 21, 2016 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

Singer, songwriter and author Jewel talks about growing up on the Alaskan frontier and the changes in her life and music that influenced her new album Picking up the Pieces.

Joseph Hudak writes in Rolling Stone Magazine:

On Picking Up the Pieces, Jewel follows in those same footsteps. The record, her first since 2010’s country effort Sweet and Wild, returns the Nineties’ queen of introspection to her more folky roots, allowing her poetry-like lyrics to come to the fore. No emotion or feeling is masked, whether it’s the awkward doubt of the cocktail-party exposé “Plain Jane” (in which she somehow manages to work “cynicism” into the chorus), the courage in the breakup story-song “His Pleasure Is My Pain” or the love-lost regret that imbues fan favorite “Carnivore.”

Many of the songs were written when the Alaska-raised Jewel, who famously lived in her car during a period of lean times, was still in her late teens and early twenties. “Some have been underground hits and have been requested at every show. Fans will ask for ‘Carnivore’ before they’ll ask for ‘You Were Meant for Me,'” she tellsRolling Stone Country, referencing her 1996 Number One hit. “I’ve been wanting to [record them], because I know there is an appetite in my fan base for them at least. But there just wasn’t the right record. ‘Carnivore’ on my country record would have sounded weird, as well as on my rock record or my pop record. [These songs] weren’t right for what I was interested in musically at the time.”

Unlike other artists who gingerly wade into other genres, Jewel has never been shy about adapting her grand pipes to pop, rock or even dance music. It’s the most malleable of voices, sounding at home on a hard-rock stage (she recentlyjoined Foo Fighters in Phoenix to cover Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”) or in an intimate club — Jewel’s pin-drop performance was a highlight of this year’s Americana Music Festival in Nashville. It’s in that genre, an amalgamation of country, rock, folk and other American sounds, where she admits she currently belongs.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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