On April 28, Rickie Lee will release her new album Pieces of Treasure (BMG Modern Recordings) a reunion with her lifelong friend, legendary producer Russ Titelman, co-producer of Jones’ star-making debut and Pirates....
Musician and bandleader Chuck E. Weiss died on July 19 at 76. Here, Rickie Lee Jones, who famously name-checked Weiss on her breakthrough 1979 hit “Chuck E.'s in Love,” recalls days and nights spent prowling L.A.'s hipster demimonde...
What Makes a Musical Genius? Books about everything from Tupac Shakur to Latin music and memoirs by Sinead O’Connor and Rickie Lee Jones offer an answer....
In this session, you'll hear Jones perform some of the music from that debut album, and she talks about her life and career with World Cafe New Orleans correspondent Gwen Thompkins....
A fractured childhood, years as a hippy drifter… the musician’s new memoir tells of her incredible adventures before she found fame – and of her intense relationship with Tom Waits in the 1970s...
"Last Chance Texaco", the long-awaited memoir from Rickie Lee Jones, is available now. An adventure story of a child who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and despair...
Drugs, demons, Tom Waits, that beret, she's shaken them off to blaze her own bohemian trail. But as her new memoir reveals, some shades linger on. "Some people love people forever," says Rickie Lee Jones, "And I'm one of them."...