My dad's a cowboy and we lived on a ranch with no electricity. "They settled Alaska before it was a state in the '50s, believe it or not. She began writing songs after moving to Anchorage to live with her mother at age 16.Īround this time, she penned "Loved By You (Cowboy Waltz)" for her father. After her parents' divorce two years later, she stayed with her father and sang with him at gigs. Father Atz Kilcher got her into yodeling and country and folk music mother Lenedra Carroll exposed her to opera and poetry. And it hopefully works good with where I'm at."īorn in Payson, Utah, Jewel Kilcher was a baby when her family moved to Homer, Alaska. You know, I'm not pandering or trying to become anybody. So even rock songs like 'Love Me, Just Leave Me Alone' sound good in the set. There's a lot more pop, slick stuff on the radio than me! I've always had a very eclectic style that's sort of country, folk, pop, rock - all blended together. And, in fact, it's more country in some ways. You look at the radio and 'You Were Meant For Me' sounds like what country is now. "I mean you'd be surprised what country is now. So when I do 'Who Will Save Your Soul' and 'Foolish Games' and 'You Were Meant For Me' and 'Hands' and 'Standing Still,' it sounds great next to 'Stronger Woman' and 'I Do' and 'Anyone But You' - the country stuff."īut Jewel must change up those non-country classics to make them more country, right? "I've been really happy to be played on country radio. "Hopefully, it's genre-defying," she added. That's sort of what I mirrored on this album. And Linda Ronstadt's 'Heart Like a Wheel' album, I thought, was just one of the best records ever made. And I'm tickled because I grew up such a fan of Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn. It's really just a great home for me to be able to be a storyteller. "I didn't like up and become someone else. "Yeah, this record isn't a huge departure," Jewel said in a June 26 interview from Indianapolis, Ind. So when Jewel and her tour mates play July 24 at the New England Dodge Music Center in Hartford, will she perform any of the mega-hits from her previous five albums? And her first official country album, 2008's "Perfectly Clear," showcases songs she wrote as far back as when she was 16 or 17 years old. Her influences include Kris Kristofferson, Crystal Gayle, John Prine and Brenda Lee. In fact, Jewel - the singer-songwriter who helped her longtime label, Atlantic Records, sell more than 27 million albums - has been incorporating country music into her pop-rock albums for years. When Jewel takes the stage each night on the Brad Paisley tour - which also includes country acts Julianne Hough and Chuck Wicks and runs through November - she actually feels right at home in what you could consider her new musical genre.
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