Jewel teamed up with Dolly Parton, who she calls a "pioneer," on the track "My Father's Daughter" off her new album Picking Up the Pieces.
"[Dolly] is such a pioneer, and who she was as a woman the time she came out was just revolutionary," Jewel tells Rolling Stone.
"I love how unapologetic and how willing she was to not use artist propaganda, and instead say, 'This is exactly who I am.'"
Picking Up the Pieces is Jewel's first album since 2010's Sweet and Wild, and first since her 2014 divorce from Ty Murray.
"As much as I'd love this record to do really well, am I willing to do what it takes to do in today's market at 41 as a mom? Probably not," she says candidly. "I don't know if I'd forgive myself."
"My music has never been about making myself into a star or a celebrity, it's been an authentic exploration of, 'How the heck do I do this' and 'What is this thing called life?'" she says. "I'm just making something that is purely unadulterated me and what my poet's heart wants to say."
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