Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones Artist: Rickie Lee Jones
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 075992738910
EAN: 0075992738910
ASIN: B00004ZKSM


Release Date: 1990-10-17

Rickie Lee Jones


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Tracks:

  1. Chuck E.'s in Love
  2. On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
  3. Night Train
  4. Young Blood
  5. Easy Money
  6. Last Chance Texaco
  7. Danny's All-Star Joint
  8. Coolsville
  9. Weasel and the White Boys Cool
  10. Company
  11. After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)

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Amazon.com

The breezy melodies and jazz stylings of Rickie Lee Jones's debut album are usually found in the works of more mature pop artists. It's only the exuberance of Jones's often cackling voice that reminds you that a 23-year-old is at the controls. And Jones's "little girl lost" perspective, while hanging out in mid-1970s Los Angeles with neo-Beat songwriters-barroom troubadours Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss, makes for colorful storytelling. In fact, her tale about Weiss, "Chuck E.'s in Love," hit the Top 10. But there's a lot more elegant stuff here: "Last Chance Texaco" is a soaring ballad about automobiles and broken hearts, and the Sinatra-esque "After Hours" features a lonely Jones singing to a lamppost. <I>--Bill Crandall</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars One Song: The Last Chance Texaco.......2007-05-18

It's hard to believe Ricki Lee Jones was only 23 when she recorded this album (according to the Amazon review). I suppose I was in a similar space when I was that age, slumming. But I never wrote a song this good (I checked the ASCAP database, and yes, she did write it). This guitar-driven, Doppler-effected, blues inflected, spoken-word dejected hymn to the American highway is flat-out brilliant. Here's how it ends:

"But this one ain't fuel-injected
Her plugs disconnected
She gets scared and she stalls
She just needs a man, that's all

It's her last chance
Her timing's all wrong
Her last chance
She can't idle this long
Her last chance
Turn her over and go
Pullin' out of the last chance Texaco
The last chance"

5 out of 5 stars An oldie, but a goodie!.......2007-03-21

Rickie at her best. If you're new to RLJ, start with this one.

5 out of 5 stars Good ALbum.......2007-03-17

Good Album, you really have to be a Rickie Lee Jones lover to enjoy this.

5 out of 5 stars Flyin' high in '79.......2007-02-28

I was 18 when this was released and latched on to it like a need for speed. rlj never really knew how great she really is. Can't wait to turn my kids on to it.

5 out of 5 stars "RICKIE LEE JONES": WHAT A DEBUT!!!.......2007-02-22

In 1979, when I despondently thought there wouldn't be any new music coming around that wasn't dance-floor oriented or bombastically loud, along came Rickie Lee Jones with her eponymously titled debut album - and what a debut it was!!!

There have been some really great artists who have come down the pyke with stunning initial efforts, amongst them The Beatles, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, Roberta Flack, to name a few; but by me, Rickie Lee's debut is, perhaps arguably so, by and large the best debut album by any recording artist ever.

This album is immediately immensely likeable. It is jazzy, folky, rock and soulful all at once. It is filled with catchy, interesting songs led off by the hot "Chuck E.'s In Love" and doesn't stop its groove all the way through eleven memorable songs. These songs are tough, yet tender: I love the brazen, cool, hip style of "Easy Money", "Young Blood", and "Danny's All-Star Joint" and yet I can actually cry through "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" and the heart-wrenching "Company". Her vocals push the emotion of each song right into the listeners' individual beings. How many singers can make you feel such a gamut of emotions?

Rickie Lee Jones is a superb songwriter and these emotions are explored via a variety of well-fleshed-out characters populating her songs here: the now-legendary Chuck E.; Sal the Weasel from "Weasel And The White Boys Cool"; a young mother and her baby on the lam in "Night Train"; a gang of youths roaming the night-time city streets in "Young Blood"; a bunch of devious crooks in "Easy Money"; Cecil the chef in "Danny's All-Star Joint"; and the fragmented gang of "Coolsville".

Yet, when "all the gang has gone home and I'm standing on the corner all alone" as she sings in the closing "After Hours", you know she will be alright because she's strong and she has gathered the momentum she needs just as the broken-down car she symbolically uses in "Last Chance Texaco".

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  1. What a Feeling
  2. Play It Cool ~ Leroy Davis
  3. Revolution Ep ~ One Minute Silence
  4. The Game ~ Sham 69
  5. New Moon Shine/Never Die Young
  6. Are You Gonna Be My Girl ~ Jet
  7. Soft Rock Cafe
  8. Lost in the Desert ~ Taggy Tones
  9. Death Carved in Every Word ~ Earth Mover
  10. Best Singles of All Time V.2 ~ Various Artists

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Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli ~ Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grappelli

Wait on the Moon

Forsaken Mourning Of Angelic Anguish ~ Incantation

Shame of the Nation ~ Misura

Folon ~ Salif Keita

Rasguei a Minha Fantasia ~ Alaide Costa

Hotel Continental ~ Stela Campos

Super Crush ~ Astrobrite

Action Mania ~ Various Artists

Tengokumadeno Hyaku Mile ~ Fuji Naoyuki