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Alanis Morissette To Record New Acoustic Version Of 'Jagged Little Pill' Celebrating The Album's 10th Anniversary
On June 13, 1995, an album was released that would set off a sonic boom in the music world and pop culture: ALANIS MORISSETTE's JAGGED LITTLE PILL. To mark the 10th diamond anniversary of the critically acclaimed groundbreaking album that produced such global hits as "You Oughta Know," "Ironic," "Hand In My Pocket," "You Learn" and "Head Over Feet," ALANIS will re-team with the album's producer and co-composer Glen Ballard--for the first time since 1998's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie--to record an acoustic version of JAGGED LITTLE PILL. All the songs of this acoustic version of JAGGED LITTLE PILL--to be released June 13, 2005, ten years to the date of the original recording's release--will appear in the same order as they did on the original album, including the hidden track "Your House." The package will include special footage from that era plus other bonus features. For the acoustic JAGGED LITTLE PILL, Maverick has uniquely collaborated with Starbucks Hear Music, which will exclusively distribute the album in Starbucks Company-operated stores in North America, beginning on the day of its release, for a period of six weeks, after which it will also be sold at traditional retail outlets. ALANIS will also embark on her first acoustic tour--the "Diamond Wink" Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Tour--that will visit intimate venues in North America during June and July (dates TBA) backed by her current touring band. It is in this acoustic setting where ALANIS' vocal intensity brings her lyrics to a new dimension. "I was in survival mode when Jagged Little Pill came out," says ALANIS. "I am able now, with a little distance, to appreciate it and have some objectivity. I love this record and am warmed by the thought of tipping my hat to it ten years later." ALANIS, who has spent the last decade evolving as a singer, songwriter and musician, says she "will re-interpret the songs in ways that have developed in my touring and acoustic shows over the past ten years." According to Ballard, "the songs from Jagged Little Pill were written and recorded in a trance, and now the opportunity for us to revisit these songs a decade later is both a treat and an act of discovery." Looking forward to re-working the songs, he says: "It's a frolic for us to honor these songs with new arrangements, in a more deliberately acoustic way, and to rediscover the astonishing power of what we captured in that time and place." JAGGED LITTLE PILL is recognized as the best-selling debut by a female solo artist, having sold over 30 million copies worldwide, including 14 million in the U.S. Hailed as "Album of the Decade" by Billboard magazine, JAGGED LITTLE PILL resonated deeply with listeners, revealing a talented young artist with a powerful voice and challenging vision. The album's monumental success earned ALANIS four GRAMMYÒ awards: Album of the Year, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance ("You Oughta Know"), Best Rock Song ("You Oughta Know") and Best Rock Album. At 21, she became the youngest artist to win the "Album of the Year" category. "At the GRAMMYsÒ, the way Alanis presented herself reminded me of women of the '60s--those hip women who had this luminous, centered quality that's completely gone," noted essayist Camille Paglia of ALANIS' stripped-down GRAMMYÒ performance of "You Oughta Know" backed by a string section (Entertainment Weekly, March 15, 1996). And backstage at the 1996 GRAMMYÒ Awards, Annie Lennox said of ALANIS: "She's stunning--really creative and intensely gifted. She looks like she won't let this industry ruin her" (USA Today, February 29, 1996). ALANIS' success kept her on the road for an 18-month world tour between 1995 and 1996 that started in clubs and ended in arenas. "I feel like these songs are pieces of Alanis' soul," says Ballard, "and so emotionally honest and disarming that they are incandescent indefinitely. I'm honored and thrilled to be part of this celebration. While this album will be a companion piece to the original, it's a new generation of these songs that will have a life of its own, equally spirited as the original."
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