Who better than Bob Dylan and Neil Young to offer personal encouragement to a budding young singer-songwriter whose recently launched career was quickly — and almost excruciatingly — going nowhere?

Editor's note: This weekend, Alaska-grown musician Jewel will headline Salmonfest, a three-day music festival in Ninilchik. But in February 1996, Jewel was a 21-year-old whose star was on the rise.

Pack up your Tamagotchis and cans of Surge, guys: the 1990s are DONE. Back in March, Jewel, the Alaskan musician best known for the 1996 smash single “Who Will Save Your Soul” and being the go-to ...