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Jewel returns to her poetry roots on Picking Up The Pieces
Double LP includes a stunning new duet with Dolly Parton
First new music since 2010s Sweet and Wild
Jewell self-produced her new 14-track LP Picking Up The Pieces with her first producer, the late Ben Keith, always in mind and hired a band comprised mostly of Neil Young collaborators to help her strip away the veneer shed built up over two decades in the music business.
Jewel describes Picking Up The Pieces as a bookend to her Pieces of You debut album released in 1995, one of the best-selling albums of all time, with more than 12 copies sold to date. Shes also preparing to publish a memoir, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half The Story and will go on tour in the U.S. beginning in spring 2016.
Its been a tumultuous five year period for the singer-songwriter whom John Rich of Big & Rich says is probably one of the greatest American singer-songwriters we have had. The composer of mega-hits such as Who Will Save Your Soul, You Were Meant For Me Foolish Games and Hands and her husband, pro rodeo cowboy Ty Murray, divorced in 2014 after nearly two decades together as a couple. The pair have a 4-year-old son, Kase. She has continued to pursue philanthropic projects, such as the ReThink: Why Housing Matters initiative. She has also continued to make TV appearances, most recently in 2014 as a judge on the reallity show The Sing-Off.
She wrote her memoir, Never Broken, and recorded a pair of childrens albums. Picking Up the Pieces captures some of these moments on Love Used to Be and Mercy, but also gathers longtime unrecorded live favorites like Carnivore and Boy Needs a Bike. The album also includes My Fathers Daughter, a stunning autobiographical collaboration with Dolly Parton.
This is just me. These are my thoughts. These are my feelings. This is my poetry, Jewel says. It really felt like returning to a part of me that I didnt mean to lose, but with time and relationships and life and surviving and dealing, you take on new things and not all of them are great.
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