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Who Will Save Your Soul
(Jewel)
As the release of “Spiral”, a new album from Allison Crowe,
approaches, it’s
fun to revisit where things began, with a pair of songs from
among the
earliest popular (i.e. not jazz or classical) songs and
inspirations in Crowe’s
repertoire.
Here’s Allison Crowe covering, live, a song that was a hit
when she was 15 – "Who Will Save Your Soul”.
WWSYS is the lead off track on “Pieces of You”, the debut
album of
Utah-born, Alaska-raised, singer-songwriter Jewel (Kilcher).
The POY album,
(for which Jewel wrote songs alone, and together with
wild-and-crazy
Haligonian-at-birth Steve Poltz), has sold over 13 million
copies worldwide.
It’s an organic blend of songs recorded, (in the mid-’90s),
live at the Innerchange coffeehouse in San Diego, and at Neil Young’s
Broken Arrow Ranch
studio in Woodside, California, sensitively produced by Ben
Keith.
Jewel, via her “J-team”, has been kind to Allison Crowe, and
especially
supportive when Allison was first venturing out from her
Canadian island to
greet a larger world with her music.
Fade Away
Allison Crowe’s first public performance, at age 5 or 6, was
singing the
jazz-era hit “Ja-Da Ja-Da (Jing Jing Jing)”.
For the next decade, Crowe’s musical training hewed to jazz
and classical,
with Beethoven being a natural favourite. By her teenage
years, this
foundation enabled creative flight, further fuelled by such
diverse
influences as “The Little Mermaid”, Ray Charles, Aretha
Franklin, Janis
Joplin, and Chet Baker joining a new generation of bands,
Pearl Jam,
Nirvana, Counting Crows, among them, and women in the
spotlight – from Ani
DiFranco, and Tori Amos, to Joan Osborne, Jewel, Sarah
McLachlan and plenty
more inspirations.
“Fade Away”, penned when she was 15, is the first song
Allison Crowe wrote
as a singer-songwriter.
On this recording, she’s accompanied by Larry Anschell, on
electric guitar,
Dave Baird on bass, and Kevin Clevette on drums. Recorded
and produced by
Anschell (Bif Naked, Sarah McLachlan, Pearl Jam), at his
Turtle Recording
studios in White Rock, B.C., Canada.
The photos of Allison accompanying these music vids are by the fabulous Billie Rocha-Woods
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