Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards. Rickie Lee Jones is a singer songwriter whose style leans on jazz and pop/R&B timing and personification. Jones settled in LA at the age of nineteen, doing the classic waiting tables stuff until she landed a recording contract with Warners. Her first album in 1979 was a big success, as was the single "Chuck E's in Love" about her musician friend Chuck E. Weiss. She won a Grammy for Best New Artist. While none of her subsequent recordings achieved the same level of commercial success, Jones has continued releasing critically acclaimed albums that have explored a variety of sonic terrain from jazz standards to trip hop influenced works. At the time of recording her first album Jones was in a romantic relationship with Tom Waits, she is the girl draped over the car on the cover of his 1978 album Blue Valentine. Early in her career Jones was known for drinking & drugging, and became an abuser of alcohol, heroin and coke. Jones eventually tempered those demons, and came to terms with
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2 | The Horses | Flying Cowboys |
3 | Ghetto Of My Mind | Flying Cowboys |
4 | Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive | Flying Cowboys |
5 | Satellites | Flying Cowboys |
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7 | Don't Let The SUn Catch You Crying | Flying Cowboys |
8 | Away From The Sky | Flying Cowboys |
9 | Rodeo Girl | Flying Cowboys |
10 | Chuck E.'s in Love | Sounds of the Seventies- 1979: Take Two |
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12 | Just My Baby | Flying Cowboys |