Posted on 08/05/2024 10:16:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff
We compose many top 10 song lists here at ClassicRockHistory.com. Some are more fun to write than others. Our Rickie Lee Jones songs list ranks as one of the most enjoyable we have ever done. There are rock artists, and then there are “rock artists. In our opinion, Rickie Lee Jones is up there with the greats like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, and Billie Holiday. We are not the only ones who feel that way. Rickie Lee Jones is a musician’s musician. Just one look at the stellar lineups of musicians on her studio albums defines the respect Rickie Lee Jones has garnished over the years.
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She looked for him down at the filling station.
LOL. No author can match the hyperbole of the music industry writing about itself.
Ah, she's 69.
1. Chuck E’s in Love
2. Chuck E’s in Love
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Well, I was grateful for her second career opening for Willie Nelson and others since she paid me $1.25MM+ buying my house in the foothills inland from Malibu cause she was raising a small mountain horse breed and our 8 stall barn, round pen, and arena fit the bill in ‘09 just before prices headed south! ...ymmv....
Whenever this came on, I couldn't change the station or turn off the radio fast enough.
I loved Rickie Lee Jones!
Rickie Lee Jones’ song “Old Enough” opens with a sound deeply reminiscent of Carole King. Which is a decided plus for this old buzzard as “Tapestry” (the album) was very fine, IMHO.
Indeed. It royally sucked. Haven’t heard it in years
I had friends that thought she was great, but I never could figure out why.
There’s a Van Morrison vibe to some of her songs.
I love what guitars and guitar straps do to the female body
Nooop! Not gonna fall for this crap article.
I didn’t mind that song, but it wasn’t great either. Seems like there was another RLJ song they used to play sometimes back then, but I can’t remember what it was.
As for the author’s opinion that “Rickie Lee Jones is up there with the greats like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, and Billie Holiday”, no. Not even.
Saw her in concert years ago. She had a great band and it was the best live concert I’ve ever been to.
Her album ‘Magazine’ is great. Her album ‘Flying Horses’ was addicting
She is a very good poet, good guitarist. Her voice was great. She hit every note. She had respect for other musicians, though she swiped at Joni M once, which is uhly for a musician to do
The rest of the ‘Chuck E’ record is good. ‘Last Chance Texaco’. ‘Danny’s All Star Joint’ is good, which a friend just performed on the spot with her brother’s band
Walter Becker was all over that record. The Steely Dan song, ‘Rikcy Don’t Lose Rhat Number’ is about her
Saw her at the peir, when Shaeffer used to sponsor concerts at the pier, one pier down from the Intrepid on the Hudson in NYC. In the summer. She was great
She came out recently and gave a liberal lecture
That’s insane. I don’t care if every one of tge others do it. It is a symptom of being certifiably insane
I literally don’t care, it would never change my position if someone thought of politics differently from my thinking
She was very good.
Heroin addict ie. junkie’s music. Rolling marbles in your mouth as you “sing” does not give a singer “presence”. Very depressing act. At one point iirc she hung around with Tom Waits and did shows with him- wrote songs(?)— talk about depressing and painful lyrics. Waits was more interesting, frankly although at times just as hard to understand.
Best tune she did had michael mcdonald on it— Young Blood, first album.
Distorted singing voice that rolled vowels all around- and thus lyrics (some of which were pretty good) are not understandable.
Junkies in Love
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