Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954 in Chicago , Illinois , USA ) is an American singer-songwriter , singer , guitarist and pianist . She shaped a new and often copied style of song arrangement .

Live and act

Jones, who left home at the age of 14, moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s , where she performed with a program of spoken monologues accompanied by beats. Her debut album, which was influenced by folk , jazz and rhythm & blues , was released in 1979. Chuck E. Weiss was the title character of her hit "Chuck E.'s in Love" contained there. The song says that he is in love with the "little girl who sings this song". She herself called the content of the song fictional. On this early album, greats like Dr. John , Michael Boddicker and Randy Newman keyboards, or Steve Gadd the drums. Michael McDonald ( Doobie Brothers ) sang the backing vocals for RLJ. During this early phase, she lived in Los Angeles in the Tropicana Hotel with her then partner Tom Waits , deeply rooted in a lively music scene shaped by artists such as Jackson Browne , Warren Zevon , Frank Zappa , Eagles , Linda Ronstadt and many more. In 1980 she was nominated for the Grammy in the categories of best new artist and best album.

Another important influence is Sal Bernardi. They met around 1975. She wrote about him in the 1970s "Weasel and the White Boys Cool". In the early 1980s, he began touring and working in the studio with Jones. Their collaboration led to compositions such as "Traces of the Western Slopes" from the 1982 album Pirates and "Theme for the Pope" by The Magazine from 1984, "Flying Cowboys", the title track of the album of the same name from 1990, "Tigers" and " Beat Angels ”from the album Traffic from Paradise (1993). In 1990, the album Pop Pop with jazz standards such as "Dat There" or " Bye Bye Blackbird " was created without his participation , in which she was accompanied by Robben Ford , Charlie Haden and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson .

In 2003 she released the album Evening of My Best Day in response to the controversial US President George W. Bush , on which she accompanied Ry Cooder and Bill Frisell .

With The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard, which appeared on Blue Rose , Jones entered the German album charts at number 70 in April 2007. For Jones this is the first place in the top 100 of the album charts in Germany. Ben Harper , Victoria Williams , Jon Brion , Alison Krauss and (shortly before his death) Vic Chesnutt also contributed to their 2009 album Balm In Gilead . The Daily Mirror (UK) summarized the work as follows: “30 years after their amazing debut Chuck E's in Love , Jones remains a singular talent who seizes the chance to fully blossom with these songs full of innocence and experience. Songs written over a period of 20 years - sometimes good things take time to mature. "

Jones is on tour in Germany from time to time.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	UK	US	Remarks
1979	Rickie Lee Jones	-	UK18th silver (19 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (36 weeks)US
1981	Pirates	-	UK37 silver (11 weeks)UK	US5 gold (29 weeks)US
1984	The Magazine	-	UK40 (4 weeks) UK	US44 (21 weeks) US
1989	Flying cowboys	-	UK50 (2 weeks) UK	US39 gold (25 weeks)US
1991	Pop pop	-	-	US121 (5 weeks) US
1993	Traffic From Paradise	-	-	US111 (7 weeks) US
1995	Naked songs	-	-	US121 (2 weeks) US
1997	Ghostyhead	-	-	US159 (1 week) US
2000	It's like this	-	-	US148 (2 weeks) US
2003	The Evening of My Best Day	-	-	US189 (1 week) US
2007	The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard	DE70 (2 weeks) DE	-	US158 (1 week) US
2012	The Devil You Know	-	-	US190 (1 week) US
2015	The Other Side of Desire	-	-	US164 (1 week) US

More studio albums

2000: It's Like This
2001: Live at Red Rocks
2009: Balm in Gilead
2019: kicks

Live albums

1979: Rare Space (first European tour)
1982: Live at the Roxy , 2 CD, LA
1982: Europe 1982 Montreux, CH
1992: LA Live
1992: Hamburg From Germany
1996: Chain Austin Portland, OR & Devore, CA
1999: Joe's Pub, NYC
1999: The Chicago Sessions
2000: Live in Portland, OR
2000: Seattle with Joe Jackson
2000: Philadelphia
2003: Berlin, Palais in der Kulturbrauerei (RadioEins recording)
2006: Copenhagen 2006

Compilations

2005: Duchess of Coolsville: An Anthology (47 tracks on 3 CDs: 3 hours of rarities, studio demos and previously unreleased recordings)
2010: Original Album Series

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	title	DE	UK	US	Remarks
1983	Girl at Her Volcano	-	UK51 (3 weeks) UK	US39 (16 weeks) US

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	Title album	UK	US	Remarks
1979	Chuck E.'s In Love Rickie Lee Jones	UK18 (9 weeks) UK	US4 (15 weeks) US
1979	Young Blood Rickie Lee Jones	-	US40 (9 weeks) US
1981	A Lucky Guy Pirates	-	US64 (7 weeks) US
1984	The Real End The Magazine	-	US83 (4 weeks) US

More singles

1979: Danny's All-Star Joint
1981: Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Beijing
1983: Under The Boardwalk
1984: It Must Be Love
1989: Satellites
1989: Flying Cowboys / The Horses
1989: Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
1991: Up From The Skies
1991: Rebel Rebel
1991: Stewart's Coat
2000: Show Biz Kids
2003: Second Chance
2006: Falling Up
2009: Old Enough
2015: Jimmy Choos
2019: Bad Company

Web links

Commons : Rickie Lee Jones - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Official website
Rickie Lee Jones at laut.de
Portrait ( The Guardian , October 19, 2015)
Interview ( Memento from April 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (originally Jazzthing , November 2003)
Rickie Lee Jones at Discogs (English)

References and comments

↑ your first success enabled Lowell George ( Little Feat ), who in his former record company Warner Bros. housed. "Easy Money", also a track from Jones' debut album, can be found on his 1978 album Thanks I'll Eat It Here - even before the original was released.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Chart sources: DE UK US
↑ Music Sales Awards: US UK

personal data
SURNAME	Jones, Rickie Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American singer-songwriter, singer, guitarist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago , Illinois , United States

[1] your first success enabled Lowell George ( Little Feat ), who in his former record company Warner Bros. housed. "Easy Money", also a track from Jones' debut album, can be found on his 1978 album Thanks I'll Eat It Here - even before the original was released.

[charts-2] Chart sources: DE UK US

[ausz-3] Music Sales Awards: US UK