New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The four-time Grammy-nominated, Multi-Platinum singer-songwriter
Jewel releases her highly-anticipated new studio album Freewheelin' Woman, via her own Words Matter Media. V Magazine said of the album in a recent "
Heroes" feature, "encompassing folk, pop and R&B,
Jewel weaves in themes of womanhood, independence, but most of all, hope. The somber soliloquies disguised as songs flow over like a soothing salve, comforting your deepest anxieties and worries." While SPIN magazine affirms "an unmistakable decree:
Jewel is back."
Freewheelin' Woman presents Jewel's boldest body of work to date, revealing entirely new dimensions of her breathtaking voice. Associated Press states "her voice switches gears thrillingly, as comfortable as a pair of favorite jeans."
The follow-up to Jewel's self-produced and critically praised 2015 album Picking Up the Pieces, Freewheelin' Woman finds
Jewel working with producer
Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, P!nk, Avril Lavigne), dreaming up a soulful and groove-heavy sound partly inspired by the classic R&B records made at Muscle Shoals.
"I cut my teeth on singers like
Ella Fitzgerald and
Sarah Vaughan and got into those Muscle Shoals records a little later on, and for some reason that's where my voice and my writing wanted to go on this album," says Jewel, who recorded Freewheelin' Woman live with a full band.
At turns triumphant, fragile, and gloriously fierce, Jewel's voice is a perfect conduit for the personal catharsis documented on Freewheelin' Woman. "A lot of these songs have to do with overcoming something difficult and then celebrating that, or taking the long way around to get to the place that feels right to you," she says.
Looking back on the making of Freewheelin' Woman,
Jewel regards the album as the most recent milestone in her lifelong devotion to following her truth. "When I first got signed, I was homeless and trying to figure out whether this was a career that could actually work for me,"
Jewel says. "I knew that I wanted to be an artist, and that meant I had to be willing to grow, adapt, change, and go wherever I felt my heart needed to go—which often isn't where managers or labels or even fans might say you should go. And I'm proud that now, at 47, I can look back and know that I've never done anything contrived for the sake of trying to be successful.
Everything I've done, I did it because it was fun for me—and this record was really fun."
Audiences will get a chance to see
Jewel and her band perform music from the new album live on tour this summer with Train, who are also featured on her recent single "Dancing Slow." The tour kicks off on June 8 in Mansfield, MA, with 35+ shows including New York, Nashville, Dallas, San Diego, and more before concluding on August 6 at the legendary Red Rocks venue in Colorado, Jewel's home state. For more information on Jewel, please visit jeweljk.com.
FREEWHEELIN' WOMAN TRACKLIST:
1. Long Way 'Round
2. Dancing Slow feat. Train
3. Alibis
4. Grateful
5. Half Life
6. Almost
7. Dance Sing Laugh Love
8. Living With Your Memory
9. No More
Tears feat.
Darius Rucker
10. When You Loved Me
11. Love Wins
12. Nothing But Love
JEWEL TOUR DATES WITH TRAIN & BLUES TRAVELER
*Jewel (direct support across all dates), Blues Traveler (all dates except Red Rocks)
Wed, Jun 08 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center*
Fri, Jun 10 Wantagh, NY Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater*
Sat, Jun 11
Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga Performing Arts Center*
Sun, Jun 12 Holmdel, NJ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center*
Tue, Jun 14 Camden, NJ Waterfront
Music Pavilion*
Wed, Jun 15 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live*
Fri, Jun 17 Burgettstown, PA The Pavilion at Star Lake^
Sat, Jun 18 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom
Music Center^
Sun, Jun 19 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend
Music Center^
Tue, Jun 21 Nashville, TN Ascend Amphitheater^
Fri, Jun 24 West Palm Beach, FL iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre^
Sat, Jun 25 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre^
Sun, Jun 26 Jacksonville, FL Daily's Place^
Tue, Jun 28 Atlanta, GA Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood^
Thu, Jun 30 Charlotte, NC PNC
Music Pavilion^
Fri, Jul 1 Raleigh, NC Coastal Credit Union
Music Park at Walnut Creek^
Sat, Jul 2 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater^
Thu, Jul 07 Gilford, NH Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion^
Fri, Jul 08 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts^
Sat, Jul 09 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Amphitheater^
Sun, Jul 10 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage^
Tue, Jul 12 Clarkston, MI Pine Knob
Music Theatre*
Wed, Jul 13 Noblesville, IN Ruoff
Music Center*
Fri, Jul 15 Tinley Park, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Chicago*
Sat, Jul 16 St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre St. Louis*
Sun, Jul 17 Rogers, AR Walmart Amp*
Tue, Jul 19 Austin, TX Germania Insurance Amphitheater*
Wed, Jul 20 Dallas, TX Dos Equis Pavilion*
Thu, Jul 21 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman*
Sat, Jul 23 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheater*
Sun, Jul 24 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion*
Tue, Jul 26 San Diego, CA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre*
Fri, Jul 29 Irvine, CA FivePoint Amphitheater*
Sat, Jul 30 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion*
Sun, Jul 31 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre*
Tue, Aug 02 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena*
Wed, Aug 03 Bend, OR Hayden Homes Amphitheater*
Sat, Aug 06 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
*Thunderstorm Artis
^Will Anderson
Jewel went from a girl who grew up with no running water on an Alaskan homestead, to a homeless teenager in San Diego, to an award winning, multi-platinum recording artist who released one of the best-selling debuts of all time. Through her career
Jewel has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and has earned 26 nominations for such awards as the GRAMMYs, American
Music Awards, MTV Awards, VH1 Awards, Billboard
Music Awards, and Country
Music Awards, winning eight times.
Jewel has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, has performed on Saturday Night Live, at the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals, for the Pope and the President of the United States. She is one of the few singer songwriters to top the chart in every genre she wrote for- Folk, Pop, Club, Country, Standards, Children's and Holiday music.
