RICKIE LEE JONES has released seventeen record albums and received two Grammy Awards. She lives in New Orleans.
Praise for Last Chance Texaco: "A jaw-dropping youth, and an
addictive, funny, eccentric and perceptive memoir." --Nick Hornby
"In this raw and roving life story, Jones depicts a child who
recognized her humanity and worth even when others wouldn't, and a
woman whose confidence helped her rise above heroin addiction,
music-industry sexism and the traumas of her youth . . . In a book
about the past, Jones has no problem moving on. It's a neat trick."
--Jake Cline, Washington Post "Candid, cosmic, so cool... An
impassioned and cinematic trip through Jones's eventful life. Jones
manages to carry her originality, intimacy, and volcanic
expressiveness into book form." --Boston Globe "Terrific... The
prose is rich and rhythmic, filled with lines that are pithy
("Rickie Lee is a Frank Capra movie that had been overtaken by
Stanley Kubrick") and poetic ("childhood traumas leave their dirty
footprints on the fresh white snow of our happy-ever-afters.") . .
. Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage." --Minneapolis
Star-Tribune "So remarkably beautifully written, showing [Rickie
Lee's] signature as a songwriter, too." --Scott Simon, NPR "One of
the most compelling memoirs I've ever read... What really sucks you
in, and lifts you up, is the dazzling magic of her prose." --Please
Kill Me "Well-crafted and intensely candid." --San Diego
Union-Tribune "A crackling debut memoir... Wise and gorgeous, this
story is as poetic as the songs that made Jones famous."
--Publishers Weekly (starred) "In gorgeous prose interspersed with
her lyrics, this is as distinctive as she is, a rich, bracing, and
candid memoir dancing with the love of language." --Booklist
(starred review) "What makes this a most inspiring memoir is her
absorbing storytelling, facility with language (no surprise there)
and her fealty to integrity - commerce be damned." --Michael
Simmons, MOJO "This tender, fierce, intimate memoir is testament
that Jones has lived a life as brave... and rich as her music--with
love, heartbreak, addiction, and magic, sprinkled throughout." --O
Magazine "Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart...but
Jones knows a good story and how to tell it." --Kirkus (starred
review) "Fans will enjoy this buoyant coming-of-age narrative by
one of music's most idiosyncratic performers." --Library
Journal
Praise for Rickie Lee Jones: "Rickie Lee Jones has been pushing
down musical boundaries for over four decades with her hauntingly
beautiful voice and fearless experimentation." --NPR "[Her] music
has healing properties: the beauty of its melodies and the wisdom
of its words soothe the soul and remind us what a peculiar treasure
Jones is." --Boston Globe "Intimate and real . . . she feels like
an old, confiding friend--plaintive and genuinely heartbreaking."
--Mother Jones "One of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic vocalists
of our time." --USA Today "A singular talent." --Daily Mirror (UK)
"There has always been something defiant about Rickie Lee Jones . .
. [with] a voice from a dream, elusive yet familiar, transcendent,
a messenger from another place." --Independent (UK) "A standout
international performer." --The Australian
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