rickie lee jones
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Rickie Lee Jones
Name Rickie Lee Jones Best known for Wearing a hat very, very well. Current city New Orleans, the floating city. Really want to be In a very warm blanket with hot chocolate and my sweetheart, watching the Northern Lights. Excited about I am working on an episodic TV show, based on characters in my book, situations, and family stories that were not in the memoir. Also, a theater production. By myself or someone else, either one will be thrilling. Hopefully both. And I quite love a song I am working on. These things are enough to keep on writing. My current music collection has a lot of Old stuff. Lots of old rock (which meant pop, acoustic, electric, etc.). From when I was a teenager. And a little bit of Jazz. Great jazz instrumentalists. Don’t judge...
Read Me: Rickie Lee Jones’s Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Read Me is a new SPIN interview feature devoted to books by and about our favorites artists. She can’t help it: Rickie Lee Jones creates poetry wherever she goes. Her memoir, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour, released in April, was written in the same rich, entrancing, dusty language as her songs. From all of her beginnings to endings, there’s a Rickie Lee Jones romance to it all. As she tells me: “This is a story generations have written, one that has been the living human experience of my family and, told through my experience, you get to see how mythological it has become for me. These are my…Hades, my Penelope, my Homer. This guy over here is my one-eyed monster.” Rickie Lee took a break from the end of a several-month-long music and book tour to tell us all abo...
