JEWEL - JEWEL PERFECTS LIVE SHOWS THANKS TO CATTLE

Pop star JEWEL treats her fans like cattle when she's performing for them - because cows taught her never to be bound by set lists. The Alaskan singer/songwriter learned how to play to a crowd as a child as she listened to her father playing the guitar in a field full of cows. She explains, "The stuff I learned about singing live I got from my dad. He'd never write a set list - he would read the crowd. "Reading a crowd is like reading a herd. Do that right, and everyone goes home happy." Jewel recalls summer nights with her farmer father with great fondness: "We used to push our cattle up to the head of the Kachemak Bay. We'd build a campfire. He'd get out his guitar and sing songs about the local characters. "You could hear the cattle bawling in the background. It was so peaceful."