Rickie Lee Jones, c/d?

didn't she try and sue them or something.

but holy shit! this record is so much more perfect than i remembered it. and it has that very "1979 singer-songwriter trying to get on FM rock radio" production quality.

what strikes me most of all is how GOOD -- how completely and totally OTM -- her waits impression is.

also, what's up w/the fact that my mom won't let me steal her records anymore. she doesn't EVER listen to them. and what i listen to almost exactly mimics what she was listening to at my age

ANY dollar bin should have it. i'm assuming you don't have it on CD or mp3s?

"Naw...naw...I'm not the greatest. I don't think there is a 'greatest.' Maybe we're living in a time of No Greatest. There's no 'greatest' anymore. I dunno...maybe one of -you- is the greatest. [pause] Hey...if anybody here thinks they're the greatest, come on up onstage. [pause] Naw...never mind...one of you assholes would probably do it."

Still the best stage patter I've ever heard.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/minis/ole-626.jpg

xpost: i figured it was one of the other kinds.

(Sorry, I've been drinking Pernod, and am sentimental and nostalgic.)

not even small change? i'll grant that he could be excessively maudlin and prone to the worst elements of beat-cliche, but the sadness is sad and the jokes are roffletastic and the cocktail-schmaltz piano playing is just godly.

otoh, i'd hate to think of where we'd be if our favorite wackos had never been allowed to free-express.

But yeah, of course, total rulelessness can be pretty fab.

i think if anything waits has gotten more like that over the years -- it's a shame his frank's wild years/black rider phase had to turn into stuffy elderstatesmanship rather than the full-on nihilism it should have progressed into. he's had a similar career arc as neil young (who shouldn't be doing that grandfatherly folksy twaddle either).

the early tom waits records were fun innocent L.A. hedonism. dirty jokes. good times.

I would still rather listen to Small Change, it must be said.

New album Sermon On Exposition Boulevard is a big mess. She walks in the sandals of Jesus when there was nothing wrong with her boots; she also does this mewling speaking-in-tongues thing on a few songs. Not good. And yet, and yet--the first song, "Nobody Knows My Name" rocks harder than she ever has. Drone-mantra, post VU throw down. We don't need another song about Elvis (the Son of God, of course) and Cadillacs, but this one has a groove that gets her over the silly name dropping (I think it's available for download on her website somewhere). And her voice is really terrific, when she's not mewling, and some of the best tracks just about reach the Vanological gospel trance state she's always loved. I give it a solid B.

I'm really digging 'Magazine' right now.

That album has one of the most wtf reviews on AMG:

The reason The Magazine was such a disappointment was that Rickie Lee Jones had proven herself a major artist with her first two albums and turned into a self-conscious, pretentious, minor one on this, her third. Once, she made art by observing street people and describing them carefully; now she tried to make "Art" by navel-gazing. What a letdown.

"The Magazine" is one of the greatest albums of the 80's..."Deep Space" is just breathtaking

classic

However the AMG review of her last album Sermon on Exposition Boulevard makes it sound amazing. Thom Jurek is so the best "I'll have what he's having" reviewer of AMG. He likes recent Maria McKee too though which makes me inclined to trust him.

So I need to go back and read through whole thread, but I'm really curious: After her debut LP, did Rickie Lee ever do any tracks with anywhere near the bounce, energy, hooks, and humor of "Chuck E.'s In Love" and "Danny's All Star Joint" again? They're far and away the best things on that album (I'd take "Weasel And The White Boys Cool" third, then probably "Easy Money"), most of the rest being dull tasteful ballads (tasteful musically, anyway, even when asking you to stick it into coolsville.) I've never heard Pirates or Magazine, and I'm guessing they'd bore me (like her Girl At Her Volcano covers EP did), but maybe I'm wrong. (Also, if she didn't ever do anything as catchy as "Chuck E.'s" again, I'm wondering if she ever explained why not. Was she just embrassed about having an actual hit?)

Also starting to be convinced, though, that she was probably at least a somewhat relevant influence on Teena Marie's beatnik jive-talk side -- even ballads like "Company" on the debut sound kinda proto-Teena, and the lyric sheet looks a little like It Must Be The Magic's inner sleeve. They both even include photos of themselves as little girls. Teena's debut LP came out in 1979, too, but she didn't really reveal her beatnik side until later. Of course, it's possible they were both just channeling Joni Mitchell in vaugely similar ways.

The timbre of her voice has always bothered me, but if you're looking for settings that complement it check out her Walter Becker collaboration from 1989. It won't convert you -- it reminds me a little of what Joni failed to attempt at the same time -- but it ain't much different than what you're used to from her.

Chuck Pirates is dreamy and jazzy so if you don't like the ballad parts of the debut I wouldn't recommend it as an album, but "Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking" is an awesome party joint.

"Living It Up" and the title track swing between uptempo and morose with a vertiginous intensity that is pretty rare I think but I'm not sure you'd enjoy that.

there was a bunch of stuff on The Magazine that was hookier than anything really on Pirates - I think "Runaround" and "It Must Be Love" were both on that one, which were both RLJ at her most hummable

also Alfred if "what Joni failed to an attempt" is a Night Ride Home dis, know that I will cut you

"Jukebox Fury" is the most hooky thing on The Magazine I think ("It Must Be Love" is a great great ballad though!) but by that point she'd really shed the whole hepcat vibe which I assume is at least part of what chuck is looking for.

also Alfred if "what Joni failed to an attempt" is a Night Ride Home dis, know that I will cut you

I like that one; it's her other eighties albums that drift.

Thanks, guys. And yeah, I'm pretty convinced that her hepcat side is where her fun is; the amrorphous, theoretically "jazzy" ballads haven't been reaching me at all. But I'll keep the tracks people mentioned in mind should I come across dollar copies of Pirates or The Magazine, even though I still expect I'll find them even more frustrating than the debut. Meanwhile, here's a talk on Frank Kogan's livejournal last year, centered around a '90s track by her than I do like; also curious if she ever did anything else like "White Girl":

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/172216.html

Woah, so weird. Didn't see this thread, but I'm listening to the self-titled right now.

I kind of think that me trying to really interest Xhuxk in RLJ's career is the definition of insanity, but I guess if there is any explanation for why she didn't do a lot of happy songs like chuck e's in love it was the huge writer's block that killed her after Pirates.

I will represent The Magazine forever because it saved my life one summer, and Pirates has at least two songs I cannot listen to because they are too much in my heart. Anyway, there's a lot of great stuff floating around from the rest of her career, as I've been learning by combing dollar bins. Here's a brief alternative Top 10:

"Nobody Knows My Name" (kinda like an alt.dylan version of "white girl" if you stretch your mind)
"Show Biz Kids" (actually the whole "it's like this" cover album is amazing-pants)
"Altar Boy" (about as punk as sinead o'connor)
"Tell Somebody (Repeal the Patriot Act)" (aka "chuck e hates george bush" with gospel seasonings)
"Ghost Train" (beat as fhuxk)
"Wild Girl" (loose, easy folkie pop from last year's balm in gilead)
"Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive" (live at red rocks, barely over her version of "gloria")
"Dat Dere" (oscar brown jr song from pop pop, love the songs where she just sounds happy)
"Lucky Guy" (country weeper, probably written about tom waits' roving ways on the road)
"The Real End" (most underrated jam from 'the magazine')

I will represent The Magazine forever because it saved my life one summer, and Pirates has at least two songs I cannot listen to because they are too much in my heart.

which ones?

yeah "Lucky Guy" is a sleeper on Pirates but the whole album is great. I will also stand up for "Juke Box Fury" on Magazine.

Maybe I am the only person who has heard Traffic From Paradise from 1994? It inexplicably became my very favourite album when it came out (I was 11 at the time) and I still really enjoy it. produced with Leo Kottke.

don't forget -

Rickie lee Jones, S/D?

wow Matt we are kinda identical twins on this question

So -- as Tim F basically predicted -- I've decided I pretty much can't stand Pirates; don't hear at all what others hear. Even the only two cuts with any hint of energy at all -- "Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train To Peking" and maybe the title track -- don't come close to the stuff I like on her debut, beatnik scat schtick or no. And the rest, gawd, what a vague, empty snooze of a record. Thing is, I do like her writing in a few songs -- all the very-early -Springsteen type street characters and situations in "We Belong Together," "Living It Up," "Skeletons," "Traces of the Western Slopes" But the only way I know is from the lyric sheet, and given her nodded-out mumbling, which annoys the heck out of me and leaves me cold, I'm not even sure it'd work to read along while listening, which I'm not about to try.

Haven't heard Pirates in a long time, but you know what I really used to like was that covers record, Pop Pop.

she is doing dates performing her first two lp's!

xpActually, even in the songs where I said I liked the lyrics on paper, it's usually only a verse here and there, not entire songs. Basically just impressed when the writing gets specific, even if it's an idea she pretty clearly swiped from elsewhere. And I'd be way more impressed if the music wasn't too quiet and sleepwalked-through to hear the words.

dude, i gotta see this--is she planning on coming to NYC? If she'd throw in Live at the Volcano Live it would be truly perfect

I mean Girl at Her...smoking a bowl on a work night, not a good thing

looks like she is doing westbury and bergen PAC..

too bad...that's what i thought

thanks

Is it obvious to everyone else what "cunt-fingered Louie" means?

Cos I have spent some 10+ years not knowing.

hah. poetic license? that combination of words just sounded good next to one another? or maybe he was some manhattan beach character that her friends knew who...eh

anyway, did anyone see her on that tour last autumn?? i still regret not seeing her. i am a huge fan and she played in town on my effing birthday :(

From Henry Green's Paris Review interview:

I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: “Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with cunty fingers.” I saw the book in a flash.

buttered toast, huh?

noted.

*fails to make strategic glazed donut joke*

Rickie Lee Jones albums always sneak up on me... I've been absolutely obsessed with The Magazine of late. So good!

I could not love The Magazine enough. Massive massive hooks, relentless weirdo visions...and it helped me through one of the weirdest summers of my life.

oh crap I already said that upstairs

I always think of you talking about that when I listen to it!

aw

Fine: I'm going to listen to The Magazine.

I find it helps to skip the opening piano instrumental. There's nothing particularly wrong with it but it makes the album appear more reaching and less fun than it is.

I've heard "The Real End" before! Sassy horns.

deep space from that record is amazin

also, in the past six years I think I've listened to living it up more than just about any other song by any other person or people. "feeling a little sad, a little lonely, and a little mean..."

and traces of the western slopes is so good. I love that she doesn't even sing on it at first. there's that ominous beginning, and when the vocals finally do begin, it's that dude, whatshisname, and then when she does finally come in she sounds all crazy, like someone you'd try to avoid sitting next to on the subway. it's so awesome that she did a song like that on her sophomore record, but then, something like company on the first record also seems really ambitious and is kind of mind-blowing in its own way.

"Living It Up" is so important to me. The word that always occurs to me to describe it is "vertiginous" (lol a quick search reveals I used it upthread).

She's doing a US tour right now, but I missed her local gig. Wonder how it was.

This is great:

Rickie L jones said...
HI

I have rarely read a review about myself that reminded me that journalists can teach us with just a word. A good writer and loving listener understands why even the weak part matters to the art. Thank you for this review of Flying Cowboys. but I am writing about your comment about The Magazine - it Was grandiose, this is just the word,
and no one had said it quite so clearly. It weighs oddly out of time with all my work. Sobriety makes this work fragile and cavernous - I was feeling my way. . it is dark, artificial happiness, no guidance. But of course, it had to be large, I was propelling myself out of the dark. it was my ode to addiction, everything was larger than reality for me. I would not change The Magazine (well actually i might, but not the size of it) - but this review of my work, at this time, is much appreciated. - RL Jones

MARCH 17, 2011

interesting, so where is that review, tim? i love magazine myself, haven't listened to it in a while though. it's one of the rather few albums my girl-friend introduced to me.

yeah I'm a huge fan of that magazine but wow what an insightful reflection from RLJ

i just picked up a used copy of her debut album...wow i should have checked her out before...definitely fits in well w/my love of court & spark joni

the second one, pirates, is as good if not better

She was reacting to the all music review of Flying Cowboys (http://www.allmusic.com/album/flying-cowboys-mw0000201326) which someone had copied and pasted (http://overdoseoffingalcocoa.blogspot.com/2010/06/rickie-lee-jones.html).

Just picked this up at Barnes and Noble for less than $10 after tax.

saw the Madonna one at Best Buy this morning for $15.

I know these sets have gotten kind of a bad rep for cheap packaging, but sheesh, at those prices, who could really be that upset?

(listening to that first album right now, by the way; it's good! Yep, it's my first time hearing)

her first two albums are two of my favorite records I belatedly discovered last year

i listened to pirates for the first time today and my life has changed

that's what happened to me when i first listened to girl at her volcano in 1985. that voice killed me.

even thinking of 'We Belong Together' makes me emotional.

So this thread got me to pull out Pirates which I haven't heard in probably 25 years. I was blown away. It's such a miraculously lyrical mix of r&b, jazz, and traces of Springsteen/Van/Steely Dan/Joni. Love the intra-song dynamics. Pro tip, lyric sheet is essential.

I said fuck it and downloaded a copy of Pirates.

So this thread got me to pull out Pirates which I haven't heard in probably 25 years. I was blown away. It's such a miraculously lyrical mix of r&b, jazz, and traces of Springsteen/Van/Steely Dan/Joni. Love the intra-song dynamics. Pro tip, lyric sheet is essential.

otm and similar revelations await on at least her next two albums imo

even thinking of 'We Belong Together' makes me emotional.

also mega-OTM. if I go so far as to think "a promise that weeee belong to-gether" in my head I'm a wreck. what a tune

That's the only track I owned for years and it killed me.

hearing her interview that led to the sample in Little Fluffy Clouds brings me joy

First 2 are total classic, probably some sexism at play in the inevitable comparisons to Waits.
Magazine is a bit of a mess, but still has the gut-wrenching line on Gravity "I try to imagine another planet, another sun/
Where I don't look like me/And everything I do matters".

I'm a huge fan of Flying Cowboys, and The Sermon on Exposition Blvd works much better than expected.

Try to imagine another planet, another sun
Where I don't look like me
And everything I do matters

"Gravity" kills me, and this will be on my tombstone.

I keep coming back to start of Living It Up. It's a perfect brief characterization, wistful and kinda funny:

Eddie's got one crazy eye
That turns him into a cartoon
When a pretty girl comes by
And there's nothin' here to do anymore
He sits on the stoop all day
Like there's something he's waiting for

Of course the rest of the song is killer.

holy shit just heard we belong together for the first time...amazing

Alfred what did you think of the rest of the album?

Best album of all time is the correct answer FYI.

Her tribute to Walter Becker

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-rickie-lee-jones-poignant-tribute-to-walter-becker-w501078

love the way she writes

Calling shenanigans on that Orb reference - it looks inserted rather than what she said/wrote..

pirates is absolutely the best album ever made. i think i’m gonna make a poll

the first time i heard “we belong together” a few months ago i thought “this is sounds exactly like how i feel inside all the time”

it is utterly stunning

but "we belong together" will run the table on that poll like Minnesota Fats

lol yeah that’s what i was figuring

nb Fats loses in the end so who knows, Living it Up & Woody n Dutch might have a chance. iirc when the album was new my local critic was all "if there was more Woody n Dutch on this record it would be a better followup to the resplendent debut." fuck that guy forever btw

pirates is absolutely the best album ever made

◎ yes

^^^all polls shd take this form (including the same exact working)

s/b wording

concur

massively underrated album.

massively underrated album
artist.

love this record

autobiography out April 2019

http://groveatlantic.com/book/rickie-lee/

well holy shit this was amazing to stumble on on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_172cffdDJU

!!!!!

!

That's glorious.

I've totally missed (avoided?) Rickie for some reason and holy shit has the last few days been a revelation - to the point I've been afflicted with Nelson fever and will now declare Pirates the best album in the world.

IMDB trivia for "The Pope of Greenwich Village" - Rickie Lee Jones had originally written and recorded an instrumental demo as a theme, but it was rejected in favor of Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind." The demo, which retained the title "Theme for the Pope" (because of the movie), wound up on her 1984 album The Magazine.

interesting -- I've been listening to The Magazine a lot lately but I wasn't aware of that. here's what Sal Bernardi says about it:

SB: I never wrote lyrics in French, but a few different people wrote French lyrics for a melody that I wrote ‘Theme for the Pope’ - a strange travel for that melody. Initially, a friend in Quebec wrote some lyrics and called it ‘Danse la Reve des Cleo’.

Several years later, there was a film called ‘The Pope of Greenwich Village’. I think the film people were seeking soundtrack music. Rickie and I had reworked the song a bit and made a demo without lyrics. It wasn’t used in the film, but Rickie released it on ‘The Magazine’, calling it by the working title for the film “Theme for the Pope”. For the European release of the album, a writer here in Paris wrote French lyrics and titled it ‘Marrant de Duece’, I think.

http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Article/7823/Sal-Bernardi-Interview

I prefer the version with French lyrics that appears on the LP, and I'm not sure why they included a different version on the CD release. I assume the CD version is the original demo and the LP version is the demo with overdubbed vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGrEg9SdN3M

oops, that's the CD version but this is the LP version I meant to post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqp3z0sX5UI

excellent song selection for an ideal concert:
https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/very-good-trip/very-good-trip-11-septembre-2019

I really don't know much about Rickie Lee Jones, but I was listening to the radio just now and came across an interview with someone I didn't know. All I knew is that it was a musician, and that when they played bits of her music it wasn't that old, like '70s-now, but the person being interview sounded like she was in her 90s, which didn't add up. I was absolutely shocked to learn it was Rickie Lee Jones, who is only 66. Wow. I guess she lived hard.

she certainly doesn't look 90, her voice does sound a bit odd now though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOjAtmLzM6g

she can still sing pretty well, though her range seems to have narrowed a great deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOjAtmLzM6g

It seems like there's always been a mismatch between her singing voice and speaking voice. I remember being truly surprised that the voice sample in "Little Fluffy Clouds" by The Orb was her. But then her speaking voice now sounds way different from her speaking voice then.

I just compared two interviews from 2015 and 1989, and I guess she always had a drawl. That does make her speaking voice now sound like an older person's.

She sounds much better in that clip, this thing I heard on NPR sounded old and raspy.

I've seen a few excerpts from her new memoir, mostly re heroin use to deal w biz stress, which itself led to more biz probs, "Watch out for the junkie," yeah they're so rare in the music biz, but might have been more to it than that---anyway, she's glad she kicked it, loves her daughter---and from late 70s coverage in Rolling Stone, I gathered that she had a pretty interesting life before getting much involved in the biz. For instance she made a habit of singing to her brother while he was in a coma, until he finally woke up and said."Witch. Which reminds me that I liked Ghostyhead: her voice suited trip hop pretty well. Have also come across some good post-peak live sets on the 'Tube (one thing that still grosses me out: Tom Waits was her boyfriend, way back there now, but yuuuuuck she too cuet for him)

This is what I heard, btw:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/segments/rickie-lee-joness-life-road

She is an absolute magician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB89sotCQx4

Great song I haven’t heard in ages. Love when the other voices come in.

Finished the book last night and really enjoyed it. I was ~2/3 through it and realized, geez, she's only like 17yo to this point. She had a wild early life in all senses of the word. She saw the world, lived a lifetime before she was even 18. The last third goes by quick and is mostly her early career (which overlapped her relationship w/ Tom Waits), which took off fast. But everything that led up to that was in some ways more interesting. She's a great storyteller. Recommended!

I've listened a lot to Pirates and especially Flying Cowboys since starting the book. Beautiful albums and the production on both is fantastic.

listening to the magazine and flying cowboys for the first time today and while they're not quite as transcendent as pirates they're still really fantastic wow

"satellites"!

The Magazine in particular is just brilliant (love Flying Cowboys as well) but yes unfair to compare it to one of the ten best albums of all time.

Vaguely relatedly I lost my copy of Ghostyhead and it appears it is not on streaming services!?!?!

The Magazine is the one I had on tape as a teenager and yeah it's wonderful, still my favourite tbh.

you can really hear her love of the blue nile on flying cowboys

I feel like she perhaps recognised kindred spirits: smooth surfaces / excessive feeling

I would love to know what Rickie thinks of Sade.

there are just some very blue nile synth tones in places on flying cowboys

which albums after that are worth digging into

I think Ghostyhead is really interesting: sort of a "belatedly ride the trip hop wave" effort on the surface but that dismissive take belies what's really going on which is that Rickie makes the obvious connection that these more rhythmic but still-guitar-driven soundtracks provide the perfect foil for her to really lean into her beatnik impulses - most of the album takes that kind of 'spill over the lines of the song' profusion aspect of her vocal approach to its logical conclusion. And musically I'm not sure what I'd compare it to: I imagine it was sold to Warner Bros as being in the vein of the first Beth Orton album but it's almost more like if New Kingdom decided to produce a folk artist.

I have Pop Pop too, it's nice enough but nothing ever really grabbed me about it.

I like Pop Pop, which was the first RLJ album I ever listened to. "Dat Dere" and the Jefferson Airplane cover were the standout tracks I recall.

It looks like the cover of the first album was flipped, I wonder why?

https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographs/gWMf6i/Rickie-Lee-Jones-Malibu-CA-1978

Was it? Most pics I see are oriented that way. Btw is she smoking a More cigarette there?

It wasn't. Album's always looked like this.

https://i.imgur.com/IYiRBnv.jpg

Weird, then I wonder what's happening here, and on some YouTube clips

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rickie-Lee-Jones/dp/B000002KK2

My guess is Gracenote or some other metadata provider for all the streaming/mp3 store platforms fucked with the art and it ended up everywhere. They've let the cover of Tracy Chapman's debut go on for years looking like a scan of a cd cover that was left in the back seat of a car in direct sunlight.

Don't know if I'll get a substantive answer, but I happen to know someone who works at Gracenote and she's going to ask the guy who handles that stuff tomorrow, so stay tuned maybe.

Ok so it turns out that when WB reissued the RLJ album in 2010 as an "original artist series" they flipped the image for reasons unknown to anyone but themselves.

Looks like she has a new album coming out - it's an American songbook album (all standards) produced by Russ Titelman. To promote it, she's doing an exclusive three-night residency at Birdland in NYC, which seems to have sold out, but there's a ticketed livestream. https://birdlandjazz.com/event/rickie-lee-jones/

Correction - she's doing two shows each night, and only the "early" shows have sold out. They still have tickets for the late shows:

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/rickie-lee-jones-1623129

Pirates can bring me to tears.

I think Ghostyhead is really interesting: sort of a "belatedly ride the trip hop wave" effort on the surface but that dismissive take belies what's really going on which is that Rickie makes the obvious connection that these more rhythmic but still-guitar-driven soundtracks provide the perfect foil for her to really lean into her beatnik impulses - most of the album takes that kind of 'spill over the lines of the song' profusion aspect of her vocal approach to its logical conclusion. And musically I'm not sure what I'd compare it to: I imagine it was sold to Warner Bros as being in the vein of the first Beth Orton album but it's almost more like if New Kingdom decided to produce a folk artist.

― Tim F, Sunday, June 20, 2021 3:12 AM (one year ago)

so glad someone besides me loves this album

Pop Pop is great too, that Jimi cover is perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPCmubduvk

yo sleeve! Sean and I both spoke for Ghostyhead, way upthread, so that makes four of us who Know. She understood how trip-hop can play well with words, for one thing.

<3

(Counting her, that makes five who Know.)

omgomg just lucked into a ticket to her chicago show! so so so excited

She put on a fantastic show last night. Opened w/ a solo piano version of "Living It Up" that she sang as though she'd written it last week. The set was mostly from her new album -- "There'll Never Be Another You" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street" were highlights -- but pulled from Pop Pop and the first album. She played guitar on a couple songs, incl "Weasel and the White Boys Cool" and was very obv having a blast. Her band is terrific, too.

No Atlanta dates. :(

yeah, jealous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8

Aw crap, she did a free show in Brooklyn on Saturday and I totally missed it. (I was at another show anyway, but still, would've considered going to hers instead.)

Xpost that video of Rickie Lee talking about movies was awesome. Great storytelling chops and humor but I guess that was evident in her songs.

I kinda love that she took The Blob.

No mention of that hefty Fellini box though, which was odd.

The set was mostly from her new album -- "There'll Never Be Another You" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street" were highlights

Happy birthday!

well, I'm ugly too
no, no, no, you're not beautiful
no, you're ugly too
cause you've been traveling in so many universes and you manifest here