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Artist: Rickie Lee Jones
Genera: Rock 'n' Roll
Latest Album: Twelve Bar Past Midnight
Background: She won the 1980 Grammy for Best New Artist on the scene. She is rated as one among the top 100 Rock 'n' Roll artists of all times. Her career begun in 1979 and is marked by audacious musical leaps. That was the year of her audacious debut. She has given memorable recordings as ''Pirates'' in1981, ''The Magazine'' in 1984, ''Flying Cowboys'' in 1989, and ''Ghostyhead'' in1997. ''Ghostyhead'' was her last foray into original songwriting. However, her performing output has continued unabated during recent years. She released ''It’s Like This'' in 2000. It is an inspired collection of cover songs. Then came her in-concert document ''Live At Red Rocks,''. But she has done no composing lately. ''The Evening Of My Best Day,'' has made this absence only more painful.
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About The Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones took six long years of songwriting sabbatical. If asked about it she answers “I was preoccupied with life, I was living in Washington, mostly tending a garden and raising my daughter. I had neither impetus nor inspiration to write. It was an empty slate and there was no sense that anything would ever be coming again.” When she returned she said “I was listening. I was waiting. I was praying to be restored. And that’s what happened. I feel powerful, now. Intact. Ready to heal the world.”
She is not one of the passive artists. In fact politics is sighted as one of the major reasons of her comeback. She recounts “The election of George Bush, the passage of The Patriot Act; the monopolies of media and their misuse of language. I began to realize that someone had to speak up. There is a great tradition of protest music, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan and I’m naive enough to believe that a song actually can change conditions. It’s all about power and intention and my intention is to wake people up and shake them out of their lethargy. But you can’t do it by yelling. You have to explain, to entertain. My constituency has always been outsiders and I think it’s the outsiders who have a real chance of reclaiming this country.”
The charm of Rickie Lee Jones persists and her voice is still strong with the messages that she wants to give out. Listen to her live at one of her live shows. But she is usually sold out. So get your tickets from an on-line vendor.
Discography
Rickie Lee Jones (1979)
Pirates (1981)
Girl at Her Volcano (1983)
Flying Cowboys 1989
Traffic from Paradise (1993)
Naked Songs (1995)
Ghostyhead (1997)
It's Like This (2000)
Evening of My Best Day (2003)
Twelve Bar Past Midnight (2005)
