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She's not from L.A., but she sure sounds like she should be. In 1979, it was impossible to listen to a radio without hearing "Chuck E.'s In Love" off the first album by a supernova talent named Rickie Lee Jones. "Last Chance Texaco" and "Chuck E." were Grammy nominees from the album, but "Chuck E." was the song everyone heard from the Best New Artist Grammy winner. But if you stop there, as impressive as those songs were, you will miss a gold mine of others.
1. Chuck E's In Love
2. On Saturday Afternoons In 1963
3. Night Train
4. Young Blood
5. Easy Money
6. The Last Chance Texaco
7. Danny's All-Star Joint
8. Coolsville
9. Weasel And The White Boys Cool
10. Company
11. After Hours
If you haven't listened to this album in a while, now's a great time to get reacquainted with a vibrant, fluid voice of nuance, subtlety and unsuspected reservoirs of power.
Tikki
(14,549 posts)in the day. She may still be in Ojai? Anyways, I was on a different
musical path but, because she was a local, I listened to her work and liked it.
Still do. Great choice.
Tikki
hunter
(38,302 posts)I'm glad she survived.
Many in the music business haven't.
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)One of the best concerts I've seen in a long time. Real glad I didn't see her at the one you went to!
hunter
(38,302 posts)I was just noting it 'cause the star machine still grinds people up and I'm happy she came out the other end.
MiddleFingerMom
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Followed closely by a little-known EP called "Girl at her Volcano" -- the
BEST version of "My Funny Valentine" that I've ever heard. I'm at the
library without headphones -- I hope this is it.
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She and Tom Waits used to be an item. What impressed me even more
than her voice and style was this: Tom Waits... fucking TOM WAITS
said he had to split up with her because she was going to drink him to
death.
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Wow. Just wow!!!
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