Songoftheday 4/27/20 -People living their lives for you on T.V., they say they're better than you and you agree...
from the album Pieces Of You (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #11 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 27
Today's song of the day comes from folk-pop singer Jewel Kilcher, who was born in Utah but grew up in Alaska, where she is most identified with. Living with her dad in Homer, in the rough southwest of the country, she was a farm girl that because of her singing talent left the farm to eventually end up in California, where she was "discovered" and signed to Atlantic Records. In 1995, Jewel released her debut album Pieces Of You, recorded with Neil Young's backing band at his studio. The lead single from the project was her first composition, "Who Will Save Your Soul", written about her travels that eventually led her to California in the first place. Revamped for radio friendliness, the folk song produced by Ben Keith (Young's steel guitarist) became her first hit...
"Who Will Save Your Soul" peaked right outside the pop top ten in America in August of 1996. The song climbed to #5 on Billboard magazine's Adult Top-40 radio chart, while spending a couple weeks on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") format list at #29. It even made it to the Alternative Rock radio chart at #14, and topped the Triple-A (Adult Album Alternative) format as well. Internationally, the single went to #7 in Canada, and made the top-40 in New Zealand (#14) and Australia (#27), but in the UK it stalled down at #52. The Pieces Of You album would reach #4 on the sales chart, eventually selling over 12 million copies as one of the top selling albums of all time. At the Grammy Awards in 1997, she was nominated for two categories, losing Female Pop Vocal Performance to Toni Braxton's "You're Making Me High", and Best New Artist, which went to LeAnn Rimes. She did win the American Music Award for New Artist, though.
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First up is Jewel making her debut on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1996...
Here's Jewel performing the song on Jools Holland in 1997...
Up next is the singer in concert at Woodstock 99...
ANd lastly, an acoustic version from 2013...
Up tomorrow: Christian rockers are getting really wet.
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