Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I follow precisely two singers on Twitter. Weird Al Yankovic is the first one, and Jewel is the second. I know, an odd pairing in its way – but I think that both of them are finding that things are working out OK, and I like the idea of following non-self-destructive musicians. Besides, they’re both extremely good at what they do.
Also, it’s probably just as well that embedding’s disabled for Jewel’s “What’s Simple is True.” Because… well, damn. And here I was thinking eroticism was dead in Western popular musical culture.
I started listening to Jewel in ’96 or so. Her work is awesome. My favorite is “Near You Always“.