Interviews – Reviews

FOR THREE NIGHTS, June 7–9, the iconic American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones will perform at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre. “The West is my home,” she told me recently, adding “Park City is one of those jewels of the West that makes this stop so special...

Steely Dan co-founder produced singer’s 1989 LP ‘Flying Cowboys’ Singer Rickie Lee Jones is a longtime Steely Dan fan who collaborated with the late Walter Becker on her 1989 album Flying Cowboys. In recent years, Jones was asked to serve as opener during Steely Dan’s Carnegie Hall residencies in New York, where she...

Jones recently moved to New Orleans, and the writing on her most recent album, The Other Side of Desire, is definitely influenced by the Crescent City. She says getting out of Los Angeles and living in New Orleans has affected all aspects of her life....

Music Inside Out is a weekly radio program that celebrates the music and musicians of Louisiana. Tune in to Music Inside Out on WWNO 89.9 FM in New Orleans Thursdays at 7:00p and Saturdays at Noon. Listen this great Interview....

Rickie Lee Jones and James Taylor, two masters of songwriting, have records this season. Jones’s record, “The Other Side of Desire,” is saturated in New Orleans carnival and roadhouse music. Her singing is technically accomplished, but the technique is never more prominent than the song...

Rickie Lee Jones needs no introduction. Seriously. The singer-songwriter is so elementally articulate, so gifted at grasping both the rawest and the most complicatedly cooked emotions in her compositions, that critical framing best comes after the experience of listening to her...