Rickie Lee Jones

Publicat in: 09.01.2017, 06:56AM
Autor: Richard Constantinidi
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Etichete: Rickie Lee Jones, The Other Side Of Desire

Two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones exploded onto the pop scene in 1978 and has made a career of fearlessly experimenting with her sound and persona over fifteen (15) critically acclaimed albums. A cultural phenomenon, Rolling Stone magazine put her on its cover twice in two years, and Saturday Night Live gave her an unprecedented three songs for her second appearance. Rickie is both a character in the songs and the songwriter singing, defying convention with her sometimes brazen sexuality and the mixed bag of jazz, rock and what has come to be known as 'confessional' songwriter performances.

Over the course of a career that spans over three decades, Rickie has recorded in various musical styles and her songwriting has been characterized as "a blend of bravado and vulnerability [that] wavers on indefinable borders". Her self-titled debut album via Warner, released in 1979, won a Grammy for the Best New Artist coining some of her biggest hits including the exceptional "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963," the haunting "Last Chance Texaco," and the ever popular "Chuck E's in Love".

Her latest album, The Other Side of Desire, was written, recorded and rooted in the city of New Orleans, where Jones lives on the opposite side of the street made famous by Tennessee Williams. Produced by John Porter (of Roxy Music) and Mark Howard, this is the first new music Jones has written in over a decade. "This work is inspired by many years of sitting with all the events of my life until I had something to paint with," says Rickie. "I came to New Orleans to write and to live a different way than what I have known in on the west coast.... Here is another record then, made of my imagination, and whatever else that has no words, using the clay of this place and the shapes of my eyes to form some kind of picture of my life, or my heart, that I alone can understand, and hopefully that others can enjoy."