I thought some of you RLJ fans might be interested in this. Rickie Lee has
new material and is working on an album! Anybody in the Bay Area manage to
make it to the concert she talks about?
Mark E.('s still in love with Rickie Lee) in Seattle
> The following message is an announcement from the Rickie Lee Jones Web
Site.
>
> First, I must apologize for neglecting to post my San
> Francisco show (as part of the New Yorker magazine
> festival) on our web site. I assumed the publicity was
> covered -- but we could have packed it with fans if I
> would have known. It was full, but I sensed we could
> have had people standing if we wanted.
>
> The show was a discussion and music hosted by New Yorker
> staff writer Hilton Als. It went on just over 90 minutes,
> with Hilton and I doing Q & A and then opening the floor
> to people after just ten or fifteen minutes.
>
> I performed new songs exclusively, or at least parts of
> them. I left out bridges, partly because I did not want
> to risk new unreleased work finding it's way to the
> Internet. But the audience enjoyed it anyway I think.
> And it was very good for me to play new songs for people.
> I have not done that in many years -- played songs in
> public before I recorded them.
>
> The discussion seemed to center on the idea of success,
> as well as my playing songs and pointing out some
> influences, or correlating lyrics and ideas from previous
> works.
>
> I am working on a new record. Co-producers are Steve
> Berlin (Los Lobos, Radiohead) and David Kalish, with whom
> I wrote 'woody and Dutch' many years ago. David is a Phily
> guitar player, and he said to me recently that I was one
> of the great white R&B singers. That reminded me that I
> like to write songs for singers to sing, you know, as well
> as wound scapes and so on. So we began working on a R&B tune.
> David asked Ben Harper to come sing on it, and he obliged,
> and he sounds really great on this particular song. I love
> hearing someone sing my song. I wish more people would
> record my music.
>
> Then we wrote another beautiful song called Bayless Street.
> Now we are well on the way through. Exciting. The shape of
> this record thus far is a bit soul, a bit Irish ballad.
> Good songs, as opposed to Ghostyhead, which was more
> impressionistic. Actually, though, Ghostyhead had a number
> of 'songs' as well.
>
> I don't know, I'm just excited to be working. The
> atmosphere is good. Also in the works is the Ghostyhead
> re-release with a DVD! Ghostyhead was lost in the storm
> of paperwork when I moved from Warners to Mercury, so that
> it actually has been unavailable in the USA for five years,
> only on the market for six months. I will be glad to see it
> in peoples hands....it is still quite a unique piece, maybe
> the times have caught up with it a bit.
>
> What was such a dismal beginning to the decade is shaping up
> to be quite a nice millennium. I love being here in LA, in
> the warm sunshine and the cars and the people. Tacoma just
> was too darned cold.
>
> We are trying to sell our house up there in Olympia. It's on
> the waterfront, three acres, extraordinary beauty and it's
> cheap! The Nisqually Delta, where we have lived for so many
> years, is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.
> I hope someone buys it soon and is happy there. I am ready to
> let it go.
>
> You can check out Windemere realty if you are in the market.
>
> OK, that's it.
> Bye.
>
>
>
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