"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning ... Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now-iconic performance on Saturday Night Live. The year was 1979, the song 'Chuck E's in Love,' and the singer, donning her trademark red beret, was the soon-to-be-pronounced ...
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"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning ... Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now-iconic performance on Saturday Night Live. The year was 1979, the song 'Chuck E's in Love,' and the singer, donning her trademark red beret, was the soon-to-be-pronounced 'Duchess of Coolsville' (Time), Rickie Lee Jones. Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of one of rock's hardest working women, in her own words. With candor and lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey of her exceptional life: from her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers, to her father's abandonment of the family and her years as a teenage runaway, her beginnings at LA's Troubadour club, to her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, and longevity as a woman in rock and roll. These are never-before-told stories of the girl in 'the raspberry beret,' a songwriter who has inspired American culture for decades"
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There are musicians whose work suddenly becomes the thing everyone talks about, and then just as quickly their music is gone. Rickie Lee Jones' music remains in the hearts of so many fans around the world while many of her disciples have fallen away. Rickie Lee Jones' influence gives her live decade after decade.
Last Chance Texaco, her stunning 2021 memoir, is the perfect Rickie Lee Jones story - first because like the artist, it is odd, new, unique as a memoir, at times skirting into the tempo of fiction more than historical record and without any of the self importance 'and then we did this and then we did that' these things are usually about. She is as skilled story writer as lyricist, which makes sensem, her lyrics are short stories themselves. But a more likely reason this book feels like a great piece of fiction is that ..this life she lived, is living, is quite unlike anyone else's life. her story is Charles Dickens and Catch 22, it's ... On the Road, woman voice, without any of the pretense of her beatnik old men. Most people who did the things she did have not lived to tell the tale. I am not talking about the old drug stories. This girls childhood is far more harrowing than trailer courts with no breakfast and no daddy. Though ... that part took only two pages to tell. Rickie Lee was the first of her kind and her book reminds us how quietly she has watched the world of poprock grow in the tracks she left behind. tells it with humor and wisdom The book is good reading all the way. There is no bitterness here, but she pulls no punches either. She moves the story and does not dwell on her left over feelings. Many have written it is one of the best memoirs ever, and I agree, it is the best musical memoir ever written. I love the story of her grandmother running through the corn field running from the social worker come to take the baby. And that is just the beginning.
