Jewel "Goodbye Alice In Wonderland"

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Tracklist:

1. Again and Again
2. Long Slow Slide
3. Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
4. Good Day
5. Satellite
6. Only One Too
7. Words Get in the Way
8. Drive to You
9. Last Dance Rodeo
10. Fragile Heart
11. Stephenville, TX
12. Where You Are
13. 1,000 Miles Away

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Jewel's personal odyssey, partly chronicled on her eleven-time platinum debut album, Pieces of You, comes to full flower in her new release, GOODBYE ALICE IN WONDERLAND, slated for release on May 2nd. Marking her first album in three years, her sixth all told, Alice is her most autobiographical work in more than a decade, tracing her path from the extreme solitude of Alaska to the extreme joys and pitfalls of fame. Its title also alludes to other fantasies: the fairy tales we are told in youth about life, love and friendship versus the more complex, and often disheartening, truth. With some songs freshly written, others drawn from her astounding catalog of nearly 500 original works, she explains, 'I spent a lot of time sequencing this album so each song sets up the next, like a novel with a beginning, a middle, and an end.'

Alice leads with the mid-tempo 'Again and Again,' a paean to the challenges and compromises of romantic love, which serves as the album's first single, set to hit the airwaves February 27. From the achingly poignant 'Long Slow Slide,' listeners are led further down a universal rabbit hole with the title track, 'Goodbye Alice in Wonderland' (for which Jewel shot an impromptu, highly personal video that premiered and had a limited run on her website.)

Accelerating into third gear, Jewel makes the most of her lyrical skills and malleable voice on Alice's middle group of songs: optimism trumping late-night worry on 'Good Day,' the satiric machinations of 'Satellite' (written at age 18 when she first visited Hollywood), the hook-driven pop anthem 'Only One Too,' the equally danceable 'Words Get in the Way' (with its subversive plea 'Tell your boss you're dead / Let's get back in bed'), and, taking her foot off the gas a bit, the plaintive on-the-road rumination, 'Drive to You.'

Jewel recollects her youth singing in seedy Alaskan bars, and the free-flowing style of her early, short story/poet years in 'Last Dance Rodeo,' segueing into 'Fragile Heart,' a more uptempo version of a song from her recent album, 0304. 'Stephenville, TX,' like Alice's title track, is at once an ode to hindsight reality and a Dylanesque diatribe on modern culture. In denouement, Jewel offers the quiet angst of 'Where You Are' ('I'm a princess and I'm locked inside a stone tower of song / I'm tryin' to write messages on the window / How I just want to be long') and the live-show favorite '1,000 Miles Away.'

Helping to make the recording process transparent, letting the emotion of each song shine purely, Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls) shared a producer's role with Jewel, who credited him with giving her what she needed to carve Goodbye Alice in Wonderland like a master sculptor. 'We both saw the same figure inside the stone and I'm grateful that he knew how to get it out,' she says.

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JEWEL TALKS ABOUT HER NEW RELEASE!

"'Goodbye Alice in Wonderland' is no fairy tale, but still a strange tale indeed; it is the story of my life - from the extreme solitude of alaska, to my first trip to hollywood. From my rise to fame, to the cliche crisis of betrayals by those closest and most dearly trusted.

This is the most autobiographical album i have made since 'pieces of you', and i spent alot of time sequencing it, so that each song sets up the next, like a novel with a begining, middle, and an end. By the end of the 13th song, if you have listened closely, you will have heard the story of the sirens song that seduced me, of a path i both followed and led, of bizarre twists and turns that opened my eyes, forcing me to find solutions so that my loss of innocence would not lead to a loss of hope until, ultimately, the path turned back on its self, leading me closer to where i began; a ranch, this time in stephenville texas, where i find my self delivered from the magic forest. Not broken, just more myself."

Source: www.jeweljk.com

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Here are NEW songs that have been registered on the ASCAP:

-- Good Day
Writers:
GREG WELLS
KARA DIOGUARDI
KILCHER JEWEL

-- A Place In The Sun
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

-- A Thousand Miles Away (this may have been registered a while ago)
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

-- I Belong With You
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL
LESTER A MENDEZ

-- Carnivore (this may have been registered a while ago)
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

-- If My Heart Were Made of Gold
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

-- Stephenville
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

-- Choose Me
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

-- Words Get In The Way
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

-- Where You Are
Writers:
KILCHER JEWEL

--AGAIN AND AGAIN
JEWEL KILCHER, JOHN M SHANKS

--DRIVE TO YOU
JEWEL KILCHER, LESTER A MENDEZ
(Known as 'I Belong With You')