Availability: Innerchange Days bootleg

Availability: Rare Angels 1995 bootleg

This is my really bad blues song.

aka Need An Excuse

Notable performances: Java Joe's, Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA, 11th January 1996

Availability: Rare Jewels bootleg

Bob Dylan song performed a few times with Jewel when she was his support act.

Availability: Rare Jewels bootleg

Co-written with Steve Poltz

Availability: One Left Shoe by Steve Poltz

Notable performances: Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, Australia, 3rd March 1999

First performed in August 2001, co-written with Rick Nowels

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This Way

Jewel says:

I approached singing this one more like a jazz singer. At least, that's what I was thinking. Less notes, more tone.

(This Way liner notes)

Notable performances: First performed in public on 19th August 2001 at Humphrey's By The Bay, San Diego, California.

Jewel performed this a cappella with her mother Lenedra Carroll on the 1999 Christmas album Joy.

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Joy: A Holiday Collection

Performed at Jewel's first headlining Innerchange show on 19th May 1993.

Notable performances: The Innerchange Coffeehouse, 19th May 1993.

Availability: Save The Linoleum promo CD.

	This version recorded live at the Innerchange Coffeehouse
Pieces Of You	Save The Linoleum

Jewel says:

This, like Pieces, was written in three minutes, or something ridiculous. It was a word burp, when your so upset or passionate about something that you throw up words. Also like Pieces Of You, I thought everyone would hate it. I wrote it because I'm tired of being cynical. It just doesn't feel good anymore, yet the world seems to stomp any tender notion we may hope to have. Originally the 1st line was "I was thinking that I might die today...." but I saw a recycling bin and remembered someone told me the power of the brain is to recycle thought. Just like a water filter it can take in an Ugly thought and turn it back out as something much more palatable. So much pollution begins with our minds it's amazing, and to quote the sageistic dadeo's of Earth Wind an Fire "Your only as beautiful as your thoughts."

Notable Performances: First performed in public on 19th February 2004 at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

Jewel co-wrote this song with Guy Chambers and Kara DioGuardi and can be found on the debut album (A Place I've Never Been) of Australian Idol winner Kate DeAraugo. As far as I know Jewel has never performed this song in public.

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A Place I've Never Been by Kate Dearaugo

aka No Love Songs Left In Me; In A Woman's Life.

Availability: Jewelstock bootleg

Co-written with Steve Poltz

Availability: One Left Shoe by Steve Poltz

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Spirit

Jewel says:

I've never enjoyed things that lose their grounding. Like I talked about blind optimism, because of that I don't like people that are as optimistic. I don't hate to feel the ideology bothers me, because it doesn't seem more grounded in the world. There is suffering, there is problems. What are we doing about it? Are we staying real about how we'll get over it, or are we just acting like it will be fine: 'the children are the future and we don't have to do anything today'. For me that song was a look into what we do and how we do it and why we do it. And that we have to get very practical and realistic about how we overcome it. And what we put our energies into. And if we keep putting all our energies into this, then of course that will be reality. If we put our energies into this, this will start being reality. So making a sort of choice about what our realities will be.

(Interview Answers Atlantic promo-only cd PRCD-8939)

Notable performances: City Halls, Glasgow, UK, 8th May 1999 (acoustic version)

Jewel co-wrote this song with Lester Mendez for her 5th album 0304

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Intuition single

0304

XM Radio Sessions, Vol. 1

Jewel says:

Lester came up with the idea of putting an urban groove with a French accordian and it sounded really cool. From there, the song was pretty easy to write.

(0304 liner notes)

Notable performances: First public performance was on the 26th April 2003 at the Art In The Square Festival Charity Benefit Concert in Southlake, Texas. Jewel also performed Intuition for BBC's Top Of The Pops on 13th August 2003. The first acoustic performance was on 20th September 2003 at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, GA

Written by Harold Arlen and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and performed by Jewel and The Boys Choir Of Harlem as part of the Children's Defense Fund benefit concert: The Wizard Of Oz In Concert: Dreams Come True.

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Wizard Of Oz In Concert (CD and video)

Notable performances: US TV, TNT, The Wizard Of Oz In Concert, 22nd November 1995