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I was at this morning's taping of 'Good Morning America' and saw Rob Thomas and Jewel as part of their concert summer series. The taping was held indoors unfortunately, since the weather was sort of drippy outside. There were 3 songs played, one by Jewel solo (from her new album), one by Rob Thomas solo (I think it was called 'Streetside Serenede?) and then they both performed 'Stop Draggin' My Heart Around' together. It was a suprise! I wonder if they are going to play that song live when they go on tour this summer. It was cool to be at a taping too, I've never been anywhere near a TV production before so it was interesting. Jewel's voice was very sweet and she played an electric guitar during the song, Rob Thomas handled the Tom Petty part ok. They had three background singers to fill out the sound. I would have preferred Jewel's band to do the backup, instead they used Rob Thomas' band. I watched Jewel's band peform since 6:45 this morning, they were pretty tight and they played a bunch of her hits during the sound check, for example that one that goes 'Who will save your soul', and that other one that goes 'Sweet sorrow is the goal tomorrow'. Her keyboardist plays a Hammond too so she gets extra credit as far as I'm concerned because I love that sound. Jewel wore platform clogs, jeans and a t-shirt. She looked really pretty (though wears alot of makeup) but at the soundcheck she looked like she literally rolled out of bed, she had bed-head and was wearing huge aviator sunglasses and was wearing a velour blue tracksuit. All in all, it was an interesting and unexpected suprise this morning.