Jewel, Grammy award winning crossover artist, has without a doubt been through a lot in the past year. In July of 2014, she announced the end of her 6-year marriage to World Champion Bull Rider, Ty Murray. In true country music fashion, Jewel found that the best way for her to deal with the divorce was to engage herself into her music and focus on writing a memoir of her life.
I was going through a divorce, and looking at my entire person and saying, what is my essential self? I don't think there was an area of my life that wasn't touched," she says of her new music and memoir.
The album, released September 11, is intentionally named to show case her transition back to the stripped-down folk style of "Pieces of You.", which features some new music along with a number of songs she wrote when she was only a teenager. Many of the songs have been performed on stage over the 20 years, but are now getting their own home on an album.
Back in 2008, Jewel wrote "My Father's Daughter", an autobiographical song that has rang true with her fans for years. On the album, she collaborated with her long-time hero, Dolly Parton, for the song. "My Father's Daughter", which adds a country touch and added dimension to the album full of haunting lyrics, reminiscent of both women's childhoods.
When asked how she made the decision to make the song a duet with Dolly, Jewel said it was an easy choice.
When you grow up as a girl on a homestead with an outhouse, you don't have many heroes in the public eye. Dolly and Loretta [Lynn] were them, because they had outhouses and they had a similar lifestyle to me," Jewel said. "I loved their audacity. They were women who were so outspoken and they had no shame in being who they were. They were so ahead of their time, and I always thought it was quite heroic. So I asked [Dolly] to sing on the song, and I was pretty surprised she said yes. I'm tremendously honored. We got in the studio, she started at 8 a.m. and was 10 minutes early and well-prepared and looked amazing and was sarcastic and witty and everything you would hope Dolly Parton would be."
Listen to Jewel and Dolly Parton singing “My Father's Daughter” here:
Miranda Lambert, Steve Cropper and E.W. "Bud" Wendell will receive stars on the Music City Walk of Fame and the legendary Johnny Cash will be honored with a star during an induction ceremony on Oct. 6, 2015 at 2 p.m. in the Walk of Fame Park, the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp announced today.
These inductees to the Music City Walk of Fame represent the best of Nashville's music industry, from the gritty and soulful guitar work of Steve Cropper to Miranda Lambert's powerful singing and songwriting and Bud Wendell's visionary leadership of the Grand Ole Opry and Gaylord Entertainment," Mayor Karl Dean said. "And of course Johnny Cash was and still is nothing short of an icon, one of the very finest artists ever to grace our city's studios and stages. The city of Nashville is proud and honored to be able to recognize each of them for their many accomplishments."
The newest group of inductees will receive the 67th, 68th, 69th and 70th stars, following the induction last week of award-winning recording artists Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks, along with Mayor Dean. Inductees are recognized for their significant contributions to preserving the musical heritage of Nashville and for contributing to the world through song or other industry collaboration.
Thank you so much to the City of Nashville and Music City Walk of Fame for this honor and privilege," Lambert said. "I am proud to join a heritage of other female inductees, such as Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire, Emmylou Harris and Martina McBride. This is a milestone moment that I will cherish forever. I want to congratulate my fellow inductees, Steve Cropper, E.W. "Bud" Wendell and the legendary Johnny Cash – just saying his name alongside mine, takes my breath away."
Lambert is a five-time reigning CMA and six-time reigning ACM Female Vocalist of the Year and a GRAMMY winner with four Albums of the Year. Her fifth album, Platinum, debuted at #1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 Album Chart and Billboard's Country Albums Chart.
This group of inductees represents the diverse genres of music that are thriving in Nashville, plus a hospitality executive in Bud Wendell who had the vision for what Nashville could become as a destination built around the great music that is made here," said Ken Levitan, Chairman of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp Board of Directors. "You have country music's reigning Female Vocalist of the Year in Miranda Lambert to a songwriter and guitar man like Steve Cropper whose contributions to soul music in the 1960s are timeless works to the incomparable Johnny Cash."
The Music City Walk of Fame was created in the fall of 2006 on Nashville's Music Mile, a roughly one-mile stretch that connects downtown to Music Row. Permanent sidewalk medallions with the names of the inductees are displayed in a star-and-guitar design. For more information about the Music City Walk of Fame, go to visitmusiccity.com/walkoffame.
Birthdays always bring a reason to celebrate but milestone birthdays call for an even bigger celebration. And for Joey Feek, her 40th birthday was more than just a celebration this year.
The singer, who is currently battling cervical cancer, traveled back to her Tennessee home during a break from her treatments to celebrate her special day on a shady spot in the front yard with family and friends…and received an unexpected birthday surprise she has been waiting for for 24 years.
Rory Feek shared the news of his wife's birthday surprise on his blog September 10th along with pictures from Joey's birthday celebration.
When Joey was in her early teens growing up back in Indiana, she had a horse named Velvet that she loved so much," Rory writes. "Joey's talked about getting another horse for years and has dreamed of owning one again, but she is so incredibly responsible that it just never made any sense for her or us to have one… our life was too busy, and we didn't have room, and hay is expensive, and lots of other really good reasons.
I'm not sure it makes any more sense today… but I think sometimes that life doesn't have to make sense. And it might not seem like the best timing, but it is. Because the best time to love someone and make their dreams come true is today. Right now. So, after 24 years of waiting and hoping, Joey got a horse for her birthday."
Immediately following the party, the couple returned to Georgia where Joey will continue her aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
The best time to love someone and make their dreams come true is today!
To see more photos from Joey Feek's 40th birthday celebration, visit Rory Feek's blog at ThisLifeILive.com
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