Jewel’s Biggest Hit Was Written On A Drug Bust
Jewel’s music career had an unconventional start — after leaving Alaska for San Diego, she lived out of her van and played five-hour shows in coffee shops that were standing-room-only. “We were way out on the water,” Poltz continued, “and [the Mexican cops] got a call and said, ‘We don’t have time to drop you off. We’re trying to catch these drug smugglers, and there might be a shoot-out.’ They asked us if we wanted AK-47s, so we had guns, and they caught the guys. We helped them load the pot back onto the boat and they took us back to shore.”