Scott Borchetta, the president and CEO for Big Machine Records, is launching a second imprint, the Valory Music Company, and has signed Jewel to a multi-album deal, billboard.com reports.
She's just one of the best singer/songwriters in any genre... a move to country is a natural progression for her.
Jewel, who has cut five of her six albums in Nashville, says country has always been in her plans. I've been wanting to do this record my whole career, she says, but my label was always scared of country music. I've always had country songs on my records. If I had been discovered now, living in my car in San Diego, I think I would have been signed as a country act.