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Jewel

Touring with: Rob Thomas
Tour starts: June 20th in Nashville

"With this tour, I put a band together and I'm doing stuff from my whole career. All the hits, just something off each record. It's actually been awhile since I've had a band -- I want to say at least four or five years. It was a little bit hard to get used to 'cause when I'm alone I don't really do a set list. I have 500 songs that I just know. Whereas this time we have 22 songs -- as we get touring, we'll learn more and more songs from sound check, and I can change things up more.

Rob and I started doing some duets. We've started doing "Stop Dragging My Heart Around." We actually just learned it because we had to do a duet today on Good Morning America. I think we're gonna learn a bunch of others like Madonna's "Borderline." Not yet -- I guess I gotta learn it.

I take a lot of requests. It's pretty loose, especially like I'll do a solo set in the middle, just me and my guitar. I yodel, which surprises some people -- other people who're into kind of an underground, weird sound, they like it."

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