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.
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.