I want to say hey to all the people who have been waiting for me to come back to my web site... I have been busy working, and recovering, and still am not entirely on my feet. I have been ill, and am feeling better every day.
David Kalish and I have made a new recording, made over the past 10 or 12 weeks. We are going to start playing it for people in February, and the first few people who have heard it have been wildly encouraging.
It looks like it will contain two or three re recordings of older material. Horses, Saturday Afternoons will probably make the cut. The rest of the music is all new, some written during the recording, some older and never recorded. The music is powerful, r&b, soul, and rootsy blues, I guess. I can't really describe what I create.
I plan to make some music available to the people who so generously sent money for the cd last year, I plan to make available a song or two to people attending the live shows at Largo , starting this Valentine's Day.
So welcome back, and I hope to see you around. We are redesigning the site over the next few months, but hope to keep up afew pages we can keep current while we are reamaking the site. Send me any suggestions you have, I am not on the internet that much any more, so I need to hear all the ideas you would like to see on the RLJ stie.
Adios.
Rickie Lee Jones
Copyright © 2011 Double D in LA.
55 comments:
Wow Rickie! Great to hear that you are back in the studio, and good to hear that you are feeling better too! I'm excited about the concerts, but because I live in Toronto, won't be able to make the February shows. Be sure to come back to Toronto again with the gang, like you did with that AMAZING show when you were touring Sermon.
Peace,
Del
Dear Rickie, my daughters (both 7 years old) love your flying cowboys album. We've been listening to it non-stop in the car for the past 2 weeks. Thank you for sharing your talent and I look forward to introducing more of you music to them.
Hi, my name's William and i live in France. I plan to come to see Rickie Lee Jones on February 14 at the largo with my girlfriend. If someone could give me a link to buy the ticket, it will be so nice... Thanks a lot and have a nice day. William
Hello lady....30 years, wow. I've found you and left you so many times in those thirty years, I tend to lose count. But I always come back, stronger than before. For the past few years, you've become solidly the star of my music universe. I'm a painter, former hippie, retired teacher, and your music haunts my daily existence. Next time you're in Oklahoma City, stop by, I'll cook you a splatter burger!
It is so good to hear from you and I feel like we are sort of approaching the 30th anniversary of the first album and then of the first appearance on SNL, I think April 7 1979 . . . the site, it seems like it may have pages that aren't linked to anymore [or I remember something like that] and that sometimes it is not as up to date as it could be about appearances . . . sometimes the spelling of things is a bit casual rather than correct but that can be such a subjective thing as far as how important something like that is, for example I don't care that much to comb my hair but someone is trying to get me to re-examine that . . . maybe it isn't even important at all on the spelling . . . I like the site but maybe it's really more about whether you yourself like it . . . I think one of your key attibutes is what seems like a certain fidelity to and service to what your heart or muse tells you, so maybe what I think might be interesting but the key thing is for you to listen to your own heart . . . there are many wonderful pictures and I like the writings and having the lyrics . . . I maybe sometimes hear you on a non-verbal level and then on some things only momentarily hear the specific lyric . . . it's maybe nice to be able to go look
Hope you can tour sometime soon, although it is weird, I saw you four times in 2007, [don't know if you remember talking with me on the sidewalk by Tipitina's but I told you among other things how I believe you are one of the three great voices of our time, better than the other two and with little or no competition across time the best I can figure] and yet money has changed . . . it can turn on a dime, but money seems a much harder thing than it once was . . . I hope if you go on tour you will be able to be somewhere nearby . . . on the street where we live . . .
If I found a winning lottery ticket, I would fund a 30th anniversary tour! I mean that!
Thank you for so very much!
Rickie, I'm incredibly excited about seeing you live at Largo. I saw you on stage at Bimbo's in SF for the New Yorker interview a few years back. It was me, who during the Q and A paid you a brief homage that, well, resulted in your crying, with a bit of warm bowl of porridge on a cold, cold day kind of joy. At last I hope it was some kind of positive feeling! They ended the Q and A there and then and you said good night to us all. I never got to ask the question and frankly, can't even remember what it was! Maybe you don't remember that night. But I will remember it for the rest of my life! See you on Feb 14!
Hi Rickie,
I'd love to see more of your artwork, learn more of your dreams
and generally just hear how the world is treating you, but reckon you should use your website
to do what you do best
- just create!
Can't wait to hear your new stuff and I wish you every success with all your new endevours.
My thanks and all my love n' hugs
Angie x
Hi Rickie,
I'd love to see more of your artwork, learn more of your dreams
and generally just hear how the world is treating you, but reckon you should use your website
to do what you do best
- just create!
Can't wait to hear your new stuff and I wish you every success with all your new endevours.
My thanks and all my love n' hugs
Angie x
Over the years, I have seen a lot of artists here in L.A.,no one else but you Ricki, projects this radiant love out to the audience. I know you are a Christian, and I am not, but seeing and listening to you on stage is my church. Very emotional for me, your Largo Valentines Day show, as you give your all every time. Stop smoking sweetheart, don't mess up that beautiful instrument, your Stradavarius. All my love.
My Oh My, Rickie... I just got back from LA and our wonderful Valentine's Day rendezvous with you.. First, I just want to say that having seen you many times, this was my favorite of all; you, all up and animated, tap-dancing, sharing intimate details, and pouring your heart into ours...Thank you for all the eye contact (we were third row right in front of you..)and Rickie, my heart goes out to your heart...I certainly felt your pain and hope that it was healing to be up there feeling our love for you. I was secretly hoping for 'Cycles' but trying not to, 'cause I didn't really think you'd play it, and I was so choked up, still am...Thank you for sharing your new song with us; I pray that you will find it in your heart to release the Largo show for download; and I can only hope we will be able to get in for the next installment of the continuing story of RLJ...
With Love,
Michael in Santa Cruz
i am not a gusher and have never written to an artist before, but i saw you on valentine's day (i've seen you half a dozen times) and feel so rich and grateful for what you offered us.
i have always loved you music and poetry, but this memoir/music form you explored and the nakedness you risked of your self and the joy you seemed to embrace meant more than i can describe.
at times i wanted you all to myself, and other times i wanted the whole world to experience you. my husband of 15 yrs and i thought it would be a great way to celebrate our anniversary. we were more right than we could have guessed.
thank you is woefully inadequate but all i can think of for now
blesings
steve
Dear Rickie Lee: I'm glad you are back and hopefully releasing new material. I loved the Xmas songs, Thank you so much. I saw you in NYC during the La Rouge engagement and got to chat with your daughter for a bit outside after the show - - she was fantastic when she joined you for Falling UP - - perhaps she will sing on some of the new tracks too?
My suggestion is to just create the kind of music you always have - - surprising us with new and different twists on songs and ways to communicate.
One thing I would LOVE to see is if you and Van Morrison did something together, - What I might be a good idea is to contact Elvis Costellow about possibly appearing on his new show Spectacle in it's next season as I assume this season is all booked or completed, but who knows, if yo and Van could appear together on that show it would be a real treat for all your fans.
Okay - - thanks again for all you have given us - - I especially love the Sermon CD material - - and am looking forward to what you do next.
Rose Heredia
Glad to see you on the mend. And a new release? Kool. Hope you keep Reno on your list of potential tour stops. Loved your outdoor ampitheatre show here a while back.
It's 1984 and I'm lying on my living room floor listening to a cassette a friend/love, cum lost love, brought over to my house. The song is It Must Be Love... The room is dark. I have a lover who is off playing a gig. He's the father of my daughter, but he's not the man who I lie beside on the floor. We lay listening...we don't say a word, we don't touch... My daughter at that time, 1 year old is now 25 - She used to go to sleep listening to you. I've never seen you live, but your music has been with me since that time. And I thank you.
Okay, Rickie, I'm all prepared to fly across the country if necessary to see you perform. I only heard about your March 14 performance today, March 10...too late to book a flight. I'm ready though! Is there another show scheduled? When? Where?? HELP ME!! I WANNA SEE RICKIE!!!
Rickie, by now you MUST know that we will follow you wherever you go... I wish you good health, inspiration, and optimism. Put the music out there--we will embrace it. And don't forget about your east coast fans...it's a long way from California, but we will make you feel at home!
Rickie I am a long time fan and I had this burst of inspiration to write you a poem after listening to "Magazine" last night at a friends house, who I would have never thought would have liked your music, but when we got to "Deep Space" and started singing the song together under our breaths, followed by sheer caterwauling of the coda, two idiots drunk as lords, and we had to stop the CD there just to kind of bask in it, I thought, I need to just start making copies of all of her CD's and leave them at like bus stops, coffee shops, libraries, etc; to let this next generation know who you are and how good you are. Please don't sue me, as I am broke, Here's my poem -
I would rub your feet
and make you corned beef
and hold you like you were an angel
which you are but
not so fragile as much as delicately fierce
I saw you in concert 3 times
you yelled at the band cuz they fucked something up
and I thought
how refreshing
no game face
no follow thru
GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER GUYS!
and I remembered the perfection of every one of your records then
and realized it wasn't a studio trick
it was you
demanding more, needing more
asking more of others, but also of yourself
you could hear it in your voice
the desire to be known
to be heard
I heard you
and I still do
you are my juke box fury
my lords face
my last chance texaco
cunt finger louie says hi
he never had a chance to say goodbye
but he misses you
just as I do
cuz i havent seen you for a while
i remember you and Lyle
swaying at Red Rocks and I snuck to the front
to really, really see you
Lyle aint so pretty
but you sure are
bless your strength Rickie
bless your complicated soul
you have made me laugh and cry as much as any good girlfriend has
great music is a treasure to be held like water in the hand and
you have an indelible sense of the craft and i thank whatever made you for doing so
please come back to Colorado so I can see you again
im 44 and my memories are fading, so I need new ones!
Thank you Rickie
OK, Rickie, Fall River it is. Long ways from Oklahoma, but I bought my ticket, gonna take a little road trip. Got a sister up in Massachusetts, haven't visited that neck of the woods in 15 years. I'm excited...At last I'm gonna see Rickie Lee!!!
Stricken & sorry to hear you've been sick. Hope the recovery continues. Sermon on Expo Blvd continues to grow richer between my ears, Reverend Jones. There are ten people on the planet who do something very important to us all. You are one. Blessings and best of luck with the new players & music. Maybe I'll send you something to read on the bus ...
Rickie,
I came to both Largo shows..brilliant, painful, sweet, charming, amazing and utterly you.
I am one of those songwriters who has followed your work since 1979.
I worked with a band who made me sing a couple of your songs until I said "I can't sing these, maybe one of the ballads?" Short lived band...aren't they all?
I intend to drag my other songwriters friends out when you are back at Largo. Hey, you inspired me to release a cd I've been sitting on for 5 years...but what will inspire me more is hearing yours.
Be well, stay well, and keep playing music that affects people...there is so little of it left.
My name isn't Prudence.
Oh my, have to express this. My wife and I just made love. We came to think of "Last chance Texaco". We had some classical prob's, and now we're on again. Won't bother telling you guys what. But Im the one to blame! Last chance Texaco put tears back in my eyes. Oh, I love her so much, and this song express so many of my feelings for her - and myself. My love, my misery. My hopes and betrayals
Dear Rickie,
I've been a fan from the start and love your style, feel your soul through your music and believe you just get better with time. Watching you perform is a rare and wonderful thing experience.
My wife and I have been to many concerts but sadly not one of yours. I hope you will book a concert in Chicago sometime soon.
A Summer concert with you along Lake Michigan in the evening would be a dream come true but we would be happy to have you anytime. I'm sure the city would love to have you too and I'm know you would have a great time. Please come and see us!
We wish you the best and hope you are feeling well.
With love and admiration,
Mark and Natasha
OK, Rickie, I've finished my tribute to you, but it's a painting, can't post it on this blog. It's on my blog, though, so click my name above, then click the link to my blog, scroll to the second pic down, "Flying Cowgirl." I haven't put the prickly things on the cactus yet, but the rest is finished! And the photo isn't clear enough to read the label on the tequila bottle: RLJ, 30, gold.
Cheers! See you in Fall River!
SO glad you're coming to Portland Maine on the 13th. I've turned so many people onto your music - it's just great. I have to say Skeletons is in my top 5 favorite songs of all time list. It's so visual and moving. If that gets played on the 13th I'll be on cloud 9. and if not I can sing it all by myself. Peace.
Oh boy. I wish I was a rich man, but tonight I'm rich in sooo many alternative ways. I saw you, Rickie Lee, and I spoke with you, and I gave you a gift (sure hope you figured out what the t-shirt was all about...the flying cowgirl...that's you, gal, that's the prayer you sing, the joy you share, the dreams you make come true.) Anyway, it was worth the drive. Love ya....
Dear Rickie!
Please come to japan tour.
I'll seeing you.
Lot's of Love!
waka from Japan.
Rickie, I am going to your show in Minneapolis next week having waited all of my life to see you live, and having spun many hours of your vinyl during my stint as a college DJ, and as an adult your albums have some of the highest play counts in my 40,000 strong Itunes Library.
I just cant Wait. - Vincent
I was at the show at the Dakota 5/26. Was moved beyond words, left with tear stains on my smiling face. Thanks Rickie, may all the wayward angels watch over you & yours. Many songs I knew, some I did not. Could anybody post a set list? Thanks, Terry
I can't believe ou're going to play in Argentina. I never thought that would happen!
It'll be cold in June so make sure you bring your winter clothes.
I'm sure it's gonna be a wonderful night, thanks for the wonderful news.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1440402582
Beat/Miller/Thompson/Drunk-influenced ranting.
I'm getting way discouraged... and while i'm not living on the edge... i die a little inside every time i see that i've only sold one copy of my book.
i mean this is great...
27.
Sad Songs. If I was Lou Reed I could tell you that It would be good to hear from you. But I'm not so I'll quote you, "Sad songs, they say so much", I'm just joking Lou, Don't shoot me. I fantasize at night at being a fucking stockbroker. Paying my money overtime to the man who won't have to clean out the garbage. Can you say Elegiac. Here comes the pain. Sometimes I think I want to find a big candy apple and eat the whole thing. Take a bite outta New York. Can't tell you why. Rhythm in motor. L.A. Traffic arrival. Some day I'll find where I left that bottle. I think it's around here somewhere. Pain for nothing, can't tell ya but I think it's something else. So what I can let you see a secret. See this. It's your ass. Can't you know what Is under the sun. Pain suffering. Only one. News to you, I say but I wrote. Nice guy. Finishing Last. Late.
Thank you for coming to Boulder to do the show last night. It was magical. The new songs are wonderful, beautiful. I'm looking forward to the new album, and I hope you will visit again soon.
Hey, I've just bought my tickets for the next June 25th concert, here in Buenos Aires. First row.
After 30 years, I deserved that.
I'll see RLJ in concert in two days. Incredible.
Saludos!
Hi Rickie,
Which facebook account is really you?
http://www.facebook.com/s.php?init=q&q=rickie+lee+jones&ref=ts&sid=ac6983c8b9846ae4f5d77e24f9f83046
Hi Rickie! I'm Federico, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had the luck to see you in the Gran Rex Theater the past june 25th.
A big THANKS for your music. I waited you visit for 31 years, when I listened for the first time "Chuck.. " & "Easy Money".
The best for you and, again, thank you very much.
Federico
PS, I've uploaded the video of "Bonfires In Hell" to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXpuguMnP8E
PS2, My e-mail: federicomocciaro@gmail.com
Hi Ricky,
A quick message to appologize having spent almost 40 years without listening to your beautilful songs! Shame on me. For the next 40 years, I'll sing one of your songs every day, as it brings so many good vibes all around the place. Your have the power to turn the inside out - and only the best - it's a gift only few artists have. Lucky Lee Jones :-)
I use to tell my friends : if U.S troops could listent to Chuck 'es in Love every morning, they would resign immediately. No war, no violence is possible after beeing touched by these wonderful vibes.
Thank you for... all the things you are :-)
Be Good...
Hi Rickie
So glad to hear there is a new album comming out soon. Will never forget when you came to Auckland (New Zealand)and I had the amazing experience of seeing you in concert. I went to my record store today to see if there was a concert DVD that I could buy, but they didnt have one. I suppose that I am going to have to come to the States if I want to see you live, unless......... you made it back here again. No that would be too much to wish for.All the best and
Love always
Steve
You are my life-long inspiration. I've been married 18 years. Our first date was your concert. We will see you again in Delaware in October. What an honor that you are coming here.
wow 30 years of pur recorded bliss , jeeez where have the days gone? it saddens this sky pilot to hear that you7 have been ill hopefully brighter and more prosperous days are ahead! you are frikkin' amazin and have flown under the radar for so long in meaning that you are basically still an undiscovered national treasure of talent that it boggles my mind! to coin one your lyrics it's one of lifes little mysteries!
thank you Rickie for your gift and love of music. I enjoy listening to your music.
Thank you for being back on November. Take care.
much more than glad , very happy to see you on stage . Welcome in France ! hope to meet you, and if such nice guy as Chris Johner is in the band , i'am sure you will enjoy our next meeting. best and wonderful regards
much more than glad , very happy to see you on stage . Welcome in France ! hope to meet you, and if such nice guy as Chris Johner is in the band , i'am sure you will enjoy our next meeting. best and wonderful regards
The new website is great, good job. I love the videos and can't wait for the new CD, thinking good thoughts of you Rickie Lee, ME and the B and the G !!!!
Wow wow wow. The new album arrived today. I did what I needed to do, put the album on about 2 PM and listened to it all day. First time through, the sounds were strange. Some songs sounded familiar, some voices were strange. After a couple of trips through, things started to adhere. By this evening, the medley of sounds and songs are Rickie Lee Jones, once again kicking ass. Country sounds, Rickie sounds, brand new oldies, a little Detroit thrown in, just a whole new chapter in this life of God's creative expression. Way you go, gal. (I still think the best version of Bonfires is the one you sang to me in Fall River...got that one on tape.) Thanks again. It's all soooo good.
I saw RLJ on 10/21 in Delaware. It was the all time, best concert I have ever seen. She is in awesome shape. Her voice is as pure as an angel. I have no idea how she hits those nights. She continues to be our Duchess of Coolsville.
Rickie, you played the Carolinas in Greensboro, where I live, and I HAD to be out of town. Wow, I guess one of the three things I want to do in life, see you in a smaller venue live, will get passed over. So close, so missed, so disappointed. But, your music will always remain close in my heart as you have influenced many a happy introspective moment over my 50 year old life starting in the teens. Thank you for all you do and for the music and difference you make in our lives.
I will try to drive up to Alexandria in December. Be well, Rickie.
Charles
Rickie, you played the Carolina in Greensboro, where i live, and I HAD to be out of town. Wow, I gress one of the three things I want to do in life, see you in a smaller venue live, will get passed over. So close, so missed, so disappointed. But, your music will always remain close in my heart as you have influenced many a happy introspective moment over my 50 year old life starting in the teens. Thank you for all you do and the for the music and difference you make in our lives.
I will try to drive up to Alexandria in December. Be well, Rickie.
Charles
Special treat in the mailbox this morning. Now its time to empty the house turn the music loud and enjoy Balm in Gilead in a candlelit room. Thanks Rickie !!!
Hey, it's November 8th, 2009! Happy Birthday, Rickie! I'll be turning the big five-five myself on January 5th ... funny how the times goes and not knowing when and where it went, just how it goes, always how.
Pax!
Craig D.
Shoreline, WA
Hey Rickie
Saw you last night in London. Thanks so much. It was wonderful. Thirty years ago as a bored teenager in provincial England I listened over and over to Last Chance Texaco, dreaming of a hot night on the open road in America. I still do! Loved the show and love your music. Nick xx
Rickie - I have been listening to you for 30 years - Katrina took a few of my albums, but some of my cd's survived. I HAVE/HAD THEM ALL. And new ones now with Itunes, etc.
Your music is the soundtrack to my life and in my head all the time. Please come back to New Orleans - we need you here in our city
PLEASE PLEASE
I am listening to "His Jeweled Floor" as I type - slept while listening to it last night.
sublime
RLJ-Can you share what your inspiration was for your song Horses?
thx!
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