The singer's life has played out like a country song: leaving an abusive father, living in a car, barely scraping by. Her big break came, of all... In Lumberjack Bars And Coffee Shops, Jewel Found Her ...

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Singer/songwriter Jewel has a new memoir titled Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story, and a new album called Picking Up the Pieces. A run-down bar in rural Alaska isn't any place for a kid. But ...