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Rickie Lee Jones

Her debut: eleven songs with Los Angeles session players and orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel and Nick DeCaro.
Rickie Lee Jones, 1979

Side one is "Chuck E.'s in Love", "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963", "Night Train", "Young Blood", "Easy Money" and "The Last Chance Texaco"; side two "Danny's All-Star Joint", "Coolsville", "Weasel and the White Boys Cool", "Company" and "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)". "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" and "After Hours" were recorded live on December 22, 1978. Jones sang and played keyboards, guitar and percussion and arranged the horns; Dr. John, Randy Newman, Steve Gadd, Jeff Porcaro, Andy Newmark, Willie Weeks, Fred Tackett and Buzz Feiten played, with horns by Chuck Findley, Tom Scott and Ernie Watts. Nick DeCaro and Johnny Mandel did the orchestral arrangements, Mandel on "Coolsville" and "Company".

AllMusic gave it five stars, praising her expressive soprano voice employing sudden alterations of volume and force; Lowell George covered "Easy Money" on his 1979 solo album.

Track listing

  1. Chuck E.'s in Love3:28
  2. On Saturday Afternoons in 19632:31
  3. Night Train3:14
  4. Young Blood4:04
  5. Easy Money3:16
  6. The Last Chance Texaco4:05
  7. Danny's All-Star Joint4:01
  8. Coolsville3:49
  9. Weasel and the White Boys Cool6:00
  10. Company4:40
  11. After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)2:13

More from Rickie Lee Jones

Pirates (1981), Girl At Her Volcano (1983), The Magazine (1984), Flying Cowboys (1989), Pop Pop (1991), Traffic From Paradise (1993), Ghostyhead (1997), It's Like This (2000), The Evening Of My Best Day (2003), The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard (2007), Balm In Gilead (2009), The Devil You Know (2012), The Other Side Of Desire (2015), Kicks (2019), Pieces Of Treasure (2023)

Sources

  1. Rickie Lee Jones (album), Wikipedia
  2. Rickie Lee Jones, 1979, Session Days