Hailed as one of the great songwriters of her generation, RICKIE LEE
JONES WILL BE BRINGING HER BRAND NEW COVERS ALBUM KICKS TO THE CEDAR.
_This is a seated show with a Center Section and a General Admission
Section. Ticket holders with Center Section seats will be able to sit
in a special reserved block of seats located in the center section of
the room. Those with General Admission tickets will be welcome to sit
anywhere else in the room. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for
patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request seating
or other access accommodations, please go to our __Access page_
[https://www.thecedar.org/access]_._
_General Admission tickets are available online, by phone, at Electric
Fetus, and at The Cedar during shows. _
_Center Section tickets are sold out._
_"Rarely has a singer-songwriter inhabited other people’s work so
completely, but Jones proves herself, again, as one of the most
inventive and imaginative interpreters operating today – it’s to
her credit that she can, as ever, make 70s radio mainstays make
perfect sense alongside jazz jewels from the 40s."_
_— Glide Magazine_
RICKIE LEE JONES
Think of what you are about to read as a documentary film of sorts,
replete with close-ups and fade-outs, starring the premiere
song-stylist and songwriter of her generation, Rickie Lee Jones.
In this film we see: Rickie Lee Jones’ face, her distinctive mouth,
and her thick, beyond shoulder length blonde hair as she walks down a
road in a bucolic section of Tacoma, Washington, where she currently
resides. It is springtime. She does not wear shoes. She carries a
guitar. The sky overhead is as shiny as mica. As Jones searches for a
place to sit and play in the sun, we see various aspects of her
contemporary life come into frame, engaging Jones’ attention as she
smiles, and listens, and reflects. We see her daughter, Charlotte
Rose; Jones’ mother and siblings; various friends. All of these
people come and go, passing in front of, and behind, our primary
focus: Rickie Lee Jones playing her guitar and singing any number of
her award winning songs: "Chuck E.’s in Love," or her interpretation
of the classic, "Making Whoopee," for which she won a Grammy in 1990.
As Rickie Lee Jones sings, we hear, in voice over: Rickie Lee Jones is
the second of three daughters and one son who are of Welsh and Irish
ancestry. She was born on November 8, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois. Her
parents, Richard Loris Jones and Bettye Jane Jones, both had
peripatetic childhoods: her father lived from hand to mouth in a
number of transient hotels, and rode the rails, wandering the country.
Her mother was an orphan. She has described her family as
"lower-middle-class-hillbilly-hipster.
When Rickie was fourteen, she was living in Arizona with her father.
Jones has said in an interview that her mother was always afraid she
would run away--a heartbreak she couldn’t take--and so sent her to
live with her father; her parents were separated by then. Jones
recalls that she once ran away from her father as a result of his need
to control his wildly imaginative young daughter, her burgeoning
sexuality and charisma, and powerful talent. In an interview for a
Rolling Stone cover story published in 1979, Jones said: "I never knew
when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid’s house,
then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike
across three states."
By the time she nineteen, JONES WAS LIVING IN LOS ANGELES, waiting
tables and occasionally playing music in out of the way coffee houses
and bars. All the while, she was developing her unique aesthetic:
music that was sometimes spoken, often beautifully sung, and while
emotionally accessible, she was writing lyrics as taut and complex as
any by the great American poet, Elizabeth Bishop. In her voice and
songs, we saw smoky stocking seams, love being everything but
requited. And it was during these years that JONES’ song, "Easy
Money," caught the attention of one musician and then the music
industry. The song was recorded by Lowell George, the founder of the
band, Little Feat. He used it on his solo album, _Thanks, I’ll Eat
It Here._ Warner Brothers auditioned Jones and quickly signed her to
the label.
Her debut on Warners, Rickie Lee Jones, released in 1979, won the
grammy for Best New Artist. She was hailed by one critic as a "highly
touted new pop-jazz-singer-songwriter" and another critic as "one of
the best--if not the best--artist of her generation." In addition to
the album’s brilliant songs--including the exceptional "On Saturday
Afternoons in 1963," the haunting "Last Chance Texaco," and the
popular "Chuck E’s in Love"--Jones was becoming a figure whose life
was bearing a great deal of emulation by young women and men who
found, in her deep and personal and idiosyncratic life and work, a
model for the new generation of hipster: She was heralded as a
trendsetter in dress (beret, sundresses, heels) and in lifestyle,
given her by then famous relationship with two boys she helped to make
famous, too: Chuck E. Weiss, a Los Angeles character, and the singer
and songwriter Tom Waits, about whom Rickie has said: "We walk around
the same streets, and I guess it's primarily a jazz-motivated
situation for both of us. We're living on the jazz side of life."
To touch on RICKIE’s recent work, on September 18, 2012, JONES
RELEASED _The Devil You Know_ on Concorde Records. The Devil You Know
includes a collection of covers produced by famed musician Ben Harper.
On 2014, for the first new work she’d written in over a decade,
RICKIE LAUNCHED A PLEDGEMUSIC CAMPAIGN TO OFFSET THE COSTS OF
RECORDING, musicians and production, with total success. In June 2015
JONES RELEASED _The Other Side of Desire_ and the album has excellent
reviews.
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