Raven

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I think YouTube's being a bit odd....I can't get it to play.

[reggiedvd]

Thanks so much for posting this! I've been wanting to hear it for years but could never find it. Is it true that this was recorded for Spirit but never released as a b-side? That was the talk back in the day.

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I believe so. MrBB posted to the EDA list that Jewel recorded it as a b-side for Spirit:
I've linked the digest on the Raven's Wiki Page (http://www.jewelwiki.com/pmwiki.php?n=Songs.Raven)
Jewel does have a vintage song called "Raven". And although Jewel often considers many of her early songs in the batch of "1st songs she wrote", Raven REALLY IS one of the 1st songs she wrote. It's one of her 1st 1991 Interlochen original song demos.

At the time it was referred to as "Lullabye" but is the same song. "Raven" was in Jewel's common repertoir before she moved to Poway, CA after graduation from Interlochen & it occasionally popped up during some of the earliest Innerchange gigs.

Although dropped from performance repertoir in 1994, "Raven" surfaced again (usually as an encore) in a few early 1996 shows, including the Febuary 96 Santa Cruz gig Tom is remembering above.

I often see "Raven" mislabelled on some of those early 1996 circulating fan recordings as both "Footsteps Of Morning" or "Together, You & I". I attribute these mistakes to people guessing the title (as those words are included in the lyrics).

It can be easily identified by the 1st line of the song which is: "Fly to me Raven, Black honey into the night".

She's not performed it since 1996, although it was recorded again late last year during the "Spirit" sessions. Maybe on some future box set someday! ;-) Alan (MrBB)