Tell me about Traffic In Paradise.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Rickie lee Jones, S/D?Rickie Lee Jones, c/d?
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I last heard Rickie Lee Jones just two weeks ago. It was in a flat in Paris near République lived in by a newspaper reporter who drinks chartreuse and loves gypsy music.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, she wrote the self-loathing words that will be on my tombstone:
"Try to imagine another planet, another sunWhere I don't look like meAnd everything I do matters"--"Gravity"
― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link
flying cowboys is the becker-produced album, from 1989 i think. it's good but spotty. very clean, polished. my standout tracks are 'rodeo girl', the title track, and 'ghost train'. it's worth having/hearing, but it is not one i listen to often. ghostyhead is great!
by new do you mean the evening of my best day from 2003 or the one out later this spring? i have not heard the latter but quite enjoy the former, although find it a little undynamic.
― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 11 January 2007 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― kwhitehead, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
― I know, right?, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― derrrick, Friday, 4 May 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Rickie Lee Jones spoke with Ben Greenman of the New Yorker for a Q&A about her forthcoming album The Devil You Know (September 18 / Concord) and the art of reimagining a song. Produced by Ben Harper (who performs on most of the album), The Devil You Know features interpretations of songs by Jagger / Richards, Neil Young, Robbie Robertson, Van Morrison and more. Rickie and her trio will be on the road this summer and fall.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/08/talking-with-rickie-lee-jones.html
Ben Harper...ugh. Covers of only same ol' rock songs (will have to wait and see)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Ben Harper's a really outstanding guitarist though
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
as a singer and songwriter he's zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz inmho
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
lol aero used to hang out at the Folk Music Center
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
we went to grade school together! musically his style's not my thing but anybody who denies his chops is just fronting & he's got a good ear - if he's actually twiddling knobs & doing actual engineering he could be really interesting. "good producer" isn't "guy who makes music you like" or Gary Katz & Eddie Kramer would have a whooooole lotta classic albums
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 30 August 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
This thread inspired me to finally go back and listen to her back catalog, as available on Spotify (meaning I missed Ghostyhead) (I'm old enough to have seen her SNL performance when it originally aired, and still remember it). Really pleasantly surprised to find that there are a bunch of worthwhile things there...I kind of assumed that she was a one-trick-pony without ever investigating. Liked Sermon a lot, but have had the opening track of Pirates, "We Belong Together" on repeat for a few weeks now. Some very cool rhythmic stuff going on about halfway through that one. Also fond of her "Rebel, Rebel." The youtubes of Ghostyhead sound encouraging.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 9 September 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link