Baby What You Want Me To Do
Jimmy Reed blues song that Jewel apparently covered during early San Diego shows.
Baggage
Jewel provided backing vocals (and giggles) along with Gregory Page on this song from San Diego band Bodiless
Barcelona
aka Let It Rip, Let It Fly
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Jewel says:
I wrote Barcelona in Barcelona. It's a song about learning how to love yourself even when you disappoint yourself. And how you're patient with yourself when you disappoint yourself. It's a song about wanting to feel better but not knowing how. And so it's a sort of plea, during the chorus. It's a sort of a just: 'help I want to be free...from what haunts me'. So the verses are very turbulant and dark, but the chorus is kind of uplifting.(Interview Answers Atlantic promo-only cd PRCD-8939)
Notable performances: HGH Benefit Concert, Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 25th April 1999 (with band); Vooruit Ballroom, Gent, Belgium, 10th November 1997 (an early acoustic version with some different lyrics)
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Be Still My Little Heart
Co-written with Steve Poltz. As far as I know this song has only been performed once in public.
Availability: Rare Jewels bootleg
Notable performances: Murat Center, Indianapolis, 14th March 1997
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Becoming
Jewel co-wrote this song with Lester Mendez for her 5th album 0304
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Jewel says:
A love song to myself.(0304 liner notes)
Behind The Wall
This Tracy Chapman song has been performed a cappella by Jewel on a few occasions
Availability: Jewel Rocks The Paradise; Rare Angels 1995 bootlegs
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Big Yellow Taxi
The Joni Mitchell classic was performed as part of the finale during the 1997 Lilith Fair tour with Jewel, Sarah McLachlan and the rest of the Lilith Performers
Availability: Lilith Fair DVD
Billy
Availability: Innerchange Days 1994
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Blue Christmas
Blue Christmas was written Billy Hayes and Jay Johnson in 1948 and made famous by Elvis Presley. Jewel's version can be found on the Sweet Tracks compilation CD and sold thoughout the US in 2003 in Best Buy stores. The other artists on the 5-track CD are Coldplay, Seal, Chris Botti and Sting.
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Boy Needs A Bike, A
aka Ride Away
Availability: Regularly turns up as part of an acoustic set on bootlegs eg. Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK, 19th October 1997; Rare Angels 1995
Jewel says:
This was influenceed by Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album.
Notable performances: MTV Unplugged
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Break Me
Written in January 2000.
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Jewel says:
Yeah, a love song. I wrote it for Ty. There is also a line in here Rickie Lee Jones let me use because I thought it was perfect. It's "sharp end of what you say."(This Way liner notes)
Notable performances: USTV: Exhale, Oxygen Network, 24th February 2000
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Breaking Up
aka Do Not Think
Notable performances: 9:30 Club, Washington DC 10th March 1997
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Brother
aka Nikos. Written in Toronto, Canada.
Availability: Rare Angels 1995 bootleg
Jewel says:
I don't write about my life very much, I think I'm Sensitive is one of the only songs that autobiographical. I have a half brother, his name is Nikos. He was born when I was eight years old. My parents got divorced when I was eight. This is the story about how he got to be my half brother.
Notable performances: 14th May 1997 at the Mean Fiddler Acoustic Room, London (my first Jewel concert)
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Buttercup
Availability: Jewelstock bootleg
Notable performances: First performance on 19th July 1996, Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY
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