Rickie Lee Jones - 5 Album Collection (1979-1989) mp3@320 {1337x}-kawli

Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter and producer. Over the course of a career of over three decades, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.

In 1999, Jones was listed at #30 in the VH1 list of 100 greatest women of rock.

Rickie Lee Jones was released in March 1979 and became a hit, buoyed by the success of the jazz-flavored single "Chuck E.'s In Love" (#4 Billboard Hot 100, 1979) and its accompanying video. The album, which included guest appearances by Dr. John, Randy Newman, and Michael McDonald, went to US #3 on the Billboard 200 and produced another US Top 40 hit with "Young Blood" (#40) in late 1979.

Following a successful world tour, the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Jones secured five nominations at the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female, Song of the Year ("Chuck E.'s in Love"), and Best New Artist, which she won at the January 1980 ceremony. She was also voted Best Jazz Singer by Playboy magazine's critic and reader polls. Jones was covered by Time magazine on her very first professional show, in Boston, and they dubbed her "The Duchess of Coolsville."

Rolling Stone remained fervent supporters of Jones, with a second cover feature in 1981; the magazine also included a glowing five-star assessment of her 2nd album Pirates, which became a commercially successful follow-up by reaching US #5 on the Billboard 200. A single, "A Lucky Guy", became the only Billboard Hot 100 hit from the album, peaking at #64, but "Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)" and "Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking" became minor Top 40 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

Voted best jazz singer two years in a row by audiences and critics (Playboy and Rolling Stone polls, 1980, 1981), her insistence on covering jazz in a career that clearly was a pop career might have damaged her marketability, but it certainly opened the door for a wider scope of music from pop singers in general.

After touring through much of 1982 following the release of Pirates, Rickie Lee Jones released the Girl at Her Volcano EP (1983). It contains three live recordings, a few new studio ones and recordings left over from earlier studio sessions.

Her third full-length solo album, The Magazine, was released in September 1984. The Magazine found Jones combining the melodic, jazz-inspired sound of her debut with the complex structures of Pirates, with a more synth-driven sound, owed to working closely with composer James Newton Howard on the album. Alongside the more commercially appealing material, Jones included a three-song suite, subtitled "Rorschachs", exploring multi-tracked vocals and synth patterns. Only the upbeat "The Real End" made it into the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984, peaking at #82.

In September 1988, work began on her fourth solo album following another Grammy nomination for her Wasserman collaboration "Autumn Leaves". With songs dating from the mid-1980s, Jones teamed up with Steely Dan's Walter Becker to craft Flying Cowboys, which was released on the Geffen Records label in September 1989. The album made the US Top 40, reaching #39 on the Billboard 200, with the college radio hit "Satellites" making it to #23 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Jones ended the decade on a high note with her duet with Dr. John, a cover of "Makin' Whoopee", winning her second Grammy Award, this time in the category of Best Jazz Vocal Collaboration.

Rickie Lee Jones has continued to record and perform through the 90s and to the present time. This collection consists of her first 5 recordings released between 1979 and 1989.

Tracklists:

1979- Ricky Lee Jones
01 - Chuck E.'s in Love
02 - On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
03 - Night Train
04 - Young Blood
05 - Easy Money
06 - The Last Chance Texaco
07 - Danny's All-Star Joint
08 - Coolsville
09 - Weasel and the White Boys Cool
10 - Company
11 - After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)

All songs written by Rickie Lee Jones, except:
09 & 10: Written by Rickie Lee Jones & Alfred Johnson

Rickie Lee Jones (1979) Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.97
MPEG-1 layer 3

1981- Pirates
1. "We Belong Together" 4:59
2. "Living It Up" 6:23
3. "Skeletons" 3:37
4. "Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking" (Jones, David Kalish) 5:15
5. "Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)" 3:50
6. "A Lucky Guy" 4:14
7. "Traces of the Western Slopes" (Sal Bernardi, Jones) 8:00
8. "The Returns" 2:20

Pirates Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.98
MPEG-1 layer 3

1983- Girl At Her Volcano EP
1. "Lush Life" (Live) (Billy Strayhorn) 5:29 - Recorded at Perkins Palace, Pasadena, CA, 4-17-82 - Michael Ruff (piano), Reggie McBride (bass), Tony Braunagel (drums)
2. "Letter from the 9th Ward/Walk Away Rene" (Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Brown/Tony Sansone, Bob Calilli) – 4:28 - Recorded March 1, 1983 - Michael Fisher (percussion), Michael Ruff, Michael Boddicker and Rickie Lee Jones (synthesizers), Reggie McBride (bass)
3. "Hey Bub" (Rickie Lee Jones) – 2:20 - Recorded January 20, 1983 - Michael Boddicker, Rickie Lee Jones (synthesizers). This was the first song written for Pirates, 9-79
4. "My Funny Valentine" (Live) (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:51 - Recorded at The Roxy, L.A., April 18, 1982 - Michael Ruff (piano)
5. "Under the Boardwalk" (Kenny Young, Arthur Resnick) – 3:23 - Recorded March 8, 1983 - Victor Feldman (percussion, marimba), Lenny Castro (congas, triple scale); Leslie Smith, Michael Ruff, Arno Lucas, Sal Bernardi (vocals)
6. "Rainbow Sleeves" (Tom Waits) – 3:41 - Recorded December 4, 1978 - Randy Kerber (piano), strings arranged by Johnny Mandel
7. "So Long" (Rickie Lee Jones) – 2:06 - Neil Larsen (Fender Rhodes), Mike Ruff (vocals), Earle Dumler (oboe)
8. "Something Cool" (Live) (Bill Barnes) – 3:49 [Bonus track only on CD release] - Recorded on cassette at Theater Carre, Amsterdam, September 3, 1979 - Neil Larsen, Lyle Mays (keyboards), Lenny Castro (percussion)

Volcano Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.99
MPEG-1 layer 3

1984- The Magazine
1. "Prelude to Gravity"
2. "Gravity"
3. "Juke Box Fury"
4. "It Must Be Love"
5. "Magazine"
6. "The Real End"
7. "Deep Space"
8. "Runaround"
9. "Rorschachs (Theme for the Pope)" (Sal Bernardi, Jones)
10. "The Unsigned Painting/The Weird Beast"

All songs written, arranged and composed by Rickie Lee Jones, excepted when noted

The Magazine Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.98
MPEG-1 layer 3

1989- Flying Cowboys
01 - The Horses
02 - Just My Baby
03 - Ghetto Of My Mind
04 - Rodeo Girl
05 - Satellites
06 - Ghost Train
07 - Flying Cowboys
08 - Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
09 - Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive
10 - Away From The Sky
11 - Atlas' Marker

1989- Flying Cowboys Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.99
MPEG-1 layer 3

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