Blue Jewel Anchorage
June 22nd, 2008 by adminBlue Jewel Anchorage was discovered by Inga Vainshtein in August of 1993, when a musician from a local San Diego band, Rust, whom Vainshtein was managing at the time, called to tell her about a girl surfer who sang at a local coffee shop on Thursdays. Vainshtein drove to interchange coffee shop with a rep from Atlantic Records, and after the show they called Danny Goldberg, the head of Atlantic Record’s west coast operations, and asked him to pay for Jewel’s demo.
She cut her debut album, Pieces of You, when she was nineteen and it was released in 1995. Jewel recorded “Pieces of You” in a studio on Neil Young’s ranch, and was backed by his band, The Stray Gators, who played on Neil Young’s “Harvest” and “Harvest Moon” albums. Part of the album was cut live at the Interchange Coffeehouse in San Diego where she had risen to local fame.
The album stayed on the Billboard 200 for an impressive two years, reaching number four at its peak. The album spawned the Top 10 hits “You Were Meant for Me,” “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “Foolish Games.” The album was a huge success and eventually sold over 12 million copies in the U.S. alone, more than all of her subsequent albums put together.
Vainshtein eventually became Jewel’s manager, and was instrumental in creating a major bidding war, which led to Jewel’s deal with Atlantic Records. She cut her debut album, Pieces of You, when she was nineteen and it was released in 1995.
Jewel recorded “Pieces of You” in a studio on Neil Young’s ranch, and was backed by his band, The Stray Gators, who played on Neil Young’s “Harvest” and “Harvest Moon” albums. Part of the album was cut live at the Interchange Coffeehouse in San Diego where she had risen to local fame.
The album stayed on the Billboard 200 for an impressive two years, reaching number four at its peak. The album spawned the Top 10 hits “You Were Meant for Me,” “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “Foolish Games.” The album was a huge success and eventually sold over 12 million copies in the U.S. alone, more than all of her subsequent albums put together.