Jewel plans acoustic tour
"I am so excited to hit the road as part of the COUNTRY Financial Road Trips and Guitar Picks concert series," said Jewel. "It gives me a great opportunity to spend some time with the fans. I've spent the better part of my year writing and recording this new album. There is nothing more rewarding for me than getting the chance to perform some of my new songs along with the hits I've had over the course of my career. These shows really become a sneak peek into my songwriting and my life."
Jewel's first country album, "Perfectly Clear," was released in June 2008 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard country charts. Having been married to Ty Murray since her last country album and always being inspired by her life experiences, the new album, titled "Sweet and Wild," maintains her country roots as Jewel sings about the love and happiness in her life.
Opening for Jewel on her tour, beginning on the June 11 date in Atlanta, will be Radney Foster. Jewel's June 21 show in Boise, Idaho will be a co-headlining show with Brandi Carlile.
Tour dates are:
June 1 Fargo, ND Fargo Theatre
June 2 St. Paul, MN O'Shaughnessy
June 3 Milwaukee, WI The Pabst Theater
June 4 Chicago, IL VIC Theatre
June 5 Florence, IN Belterra Resort & Casino
June 6 St. Louis, MO Sheldon Concert
June 11 Atlanta, GA Cobb Energy Center
June 12 Robinsonville, MS Horseshoe Tunica
June 13 Huntsville, AL Von Braun Ctr. Concert Hall
June 15 Oklahoma City, OK Rose State Performing Arts Center;
June 16 Kansas City, KS Midland Theater
June 17 Salina, KS Stiefel Theatre
June 18 Denver, CO Arvada Center
June 19 Colorado Spring, CO Pikes Peak Center
June 21 Boise, ID Idaho Botanical Gardens
June 22 Missoula, MT The Wilma Theater
June 24 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
June 25 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheater
June 26 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion
June 27 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheater
More news for Jewel
- 05/04/12: Jewel becomes June
- 03/14/11: Jewel escapes injury in accident
- 01/11/11: Jewel is pregnant
- 03/31/10: Jewel performs benefits for Project Clean Water
- 09/25/09: Jewel starts African water project
- 07/16/09: Jewel dreams on
- 03/06/09: Jewel won't be Dancing With the Stars
- 02/08/09: Chuck Wicks, Jewel ready to begin Dancing With the Stars
CD reviews for Jewel
"The worst crime a person can commit is to be boring," sings Jewel in "Plain Jane," a track on "Picking Up the Pieces," her 12th album. Thanks to her origin story, no jury could ever convict her of such an atrocity.
In her childhood, Jewel Kilcher's father brought her with him to perform in bars. By 15, she was living on her own in a cabin and riding a horse to multiple jobs. A year later, she busked her way across the country, into Mexico and back as she wrote ...
Jewel's latest offering sounds pretty good (it comes with both acoustic and electric versions), but it's certainly more pop than country - most of the songs are fast-paced, and there's nary a dulcimer, fiddle or steel guitar to be found. But that fact notwithstanding, there are still a couple of tear-jerker songs here that would make even Hank Williams himself cry. Take, for example, the deeply melancholy Bad As It Gets, the enigmatic and powerful Fading or What You Are, a song ...
The charge of opportunism could be laid at Jewel's door. "Perfectly Clear" comes after the disappointing sales of her previous CD, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland" (her first album not to go gold.) And she's flirted with different genres in the past, as on the "modern big band" sound of "0304." On the other hand, it may be that Jewel's always been at least - like another famous Utah-born singer - a little bit country.
And it may not matter ...
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