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Rickie Lee Jones

May 2023

  • Rickie Lee Jones

    Honest playlist
    ‘I’ve followed Radiohead from the start – I recognise genius when I hear it’: Rickie Lee Jones’s honest playlist

    The American singer loves dancing to Marvin Gaye and cleaning the yard to Bruce Springsteen. But which big shot singer-songwriter can’t she stand?

October 2022

  • The Beatles pose for an early group portrait backstage in 1962. Left to right: Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

    ‘My teenage hormones were raging!’: stars salute the Beatles’ Love Me Do at 60

    It confused Gene Simmons, inspired Judy Collins and changed one pop star’s mum’s haircut. Here, musicians recall the impact of the Beatles’ debut single

April 2021

  • Rickie Lee Jones in New York City, 1979.

    Rickie Lee Jones: ‘I had lived volumes long before I was famous’

    A fractured childhood, years as a hippy drifter… the musician’s new memoir tells of her incredible adventures before she found fame

February 2021

  • Carole King performing in 1972, the year after Tapestry was released.

    'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry

    James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece

May 2016

  • Rickie Lee Jones At Park West<br>Rickie Lee Jones performs at Park West, Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 1979. (Photo by Kirk West/Getty Images)

    Golden girls: the glorious west coast sounds of The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco

    From singer-songwriter ballads to lavish soul, The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco compilation captures the creativity and optimism of female musicians in 70s California. Here some of them talk about those heady days

March 2016

  • David Bowie’s tribute concert … coming to a stream near you.

    David Bowie tribute concert to be streamed live

    Show featuring Pixies, Blondie, Michael Stipe, J Mascis, the Flaming Lips and more will be streamed live for fans in return for a charity donation

January 2016

  • Rickie Lee Jones Performs For Celtic Connections Festival 2016 In Glasgow<br>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 18: Rickie Lee Jones performs at the Celtic Connections Festival at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on January 18, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ross Gilmore/Redferns)

    Rickie Lee Jones – New Orleans flavours in a maverick's freewheeling set

    No encores, and no Chuck E’s in Love, but Rickie Lee Jones delivers her straight-shooting jazz, rock and blues songs with husky integrity

December 2015

  • Sleaford Mods: Jason Williamson, right, and Andrew Fearn. Nobody sticks it better.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs that stick it to the man - results

    Cheney to Bush, Johnson to Blair, workplace bosses to jailers? They all get what’s coming to them with a punchy selection by RR regular swawilg from last week’s topic

October 2015

  • Rickie Lee Jones.

    Rickie Lee Jones review – woozy wanderings through New Orleans

    The singer-songwriter spices her set with the musical heritage of her new hometown – and a waspish Chuck E’s in Love

June 2015

  • Rickie Lee Jones performing in 1980.

    From Rock's Backpages
    Rickie Lee Jones: from teen runaway to the 'female Tom Waits'

    With her latest album, The Other Side of Desire, released this week, Rock’s Backpages revisits a piece originally published in the NME in 1979.

March 2012

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    Old music
    Old music: Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco

    Michael Hann: A song that portrays the heart as a truck in need of service and repair – why didn't Bruce Springsteen think of this?

July 2011

  • Sinead O'Connor at Manchester International Festival 2011

    Theatre blog
    Manchester international festival: Sinéad O'Connor, Rickie Lee Jones and more Björk

    Alex Needham: Kitty Empire has her say on Biophilia, while Dr Dee continues to be a talking point and Sinéad O'Connor thrills the festival pavillion

February 2010

  • Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams and others: The Village – A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village

    Robin Denselow hopes Greenwich Village in the 1960s was a bit more exciting than this CD suggests

October 2009

  • Rickie Lee Jones: Balm in Gilead

    It's roughly an album of two halves, the first warm and folky, the second soft and shimmering, says Caroline Sullivan

May 2009

  • Pop review: Current 93, Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain

    Rickie Lee Jones and Andrew WK are among those joining David Tibet for fab psych-folk oddness

April 2007

  • Rickie Lee Jones

    Four stars Jazz Cafe, London

December 2003

  • Rickie Lee Jones

    Bloomsbury Theatre, London

October 2003

  • The devil and Miss Jones

    She battled her personal demons when she kicked the drug habit that nearly killed her. Now Rickie Lee Jones is squaring up to a far more public enemy: the American president himself. She tells Simon Hattenstone about her journey from Chuck E to George W, and about the anger that spawned her new album.

February 2001

  • Rickie Lee Jones

    Jazz Cafe, London
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