Rickie Lee Jones / Rickie Lee Jones
Artist Rickie Lee Jones
Album Title: Rickie Lee Jones
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Funk / Soul
Format Vinyl
Released 03/28/1979
Label Warner Bros. Records
Catalog No BSK 3296
Bar Code No none
Packaging LP Sleeve
Tracks
A1. Chuck E.'s In Love (3:31)
A2. On Saturday Afternoons In 1963 (2:35)
A3. Night Train (3:18)
A4. Young Blood (4:07)
A5. Easy Money (3:20)
A6. The Last Chance Texaco (4:08)
B1. Danny's All-Star Joint (4:06)
B2. Coolsville (3:52)
B3. Weasel And The White Boys Cool (6:03)
B4. Company (4:54)
B5. After Hours (2:15)
Date Acquired 03/26/2018
Personal Rating
Acquired from hootananny (Discogs)
Purchase Price 2.00

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Notes

Accordion – Nick DeCaro
Arranged By [Horns] – Rickie Lee Jones
Art Direction, Design [Cover] – Mike Salisbury
Backing Vocals – Arno Lucas, Joe Turano, Leslie Smith, Michael McDonald, Michael Wiener, Rickie Lee Jones
Bass – Red Callender
Bass [Fender] – Willie Weeks
Drums – Andy Newmark, Jeffrey Porcaro, Mark Stevens, Steve Gadd, Victor Feldman
Engineer – Lee Herschberg, Loyd Clifft
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Roger Nichols, Tom Knox
Guitar – Buzzy Feiten, Fred Tackett, Rickie Lee Jones
Horns – Chuck Findley, Ernie Watts, Tom Scott
Keyboards – Mac Rebennack, Neil Larsen, Ralph Grierson, Randy Kerber, Rickie Lee Jones, Victor Feldman
Mandolin – Fred Tackett
Mixed By, Mastered By – Lee Herschberg
Percussion – Mark Stevens, Rickie Lee Jones, Victor Feldman
Photography By [Cover] – Norman Seeff
Producer – Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman
Producer [Production Assistant] – Penny Ringwood
Synthesizer – Michael "Bobby" Boddicker, Randy Newman
Written-By – Rickie Lee JonesBros. Records Inc.
Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Easy Money Music
Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville
Published By – Easy Money Music
This is a "Jacksonville" pressing.
Made in U.S.A.
Tracks 2, 11 recorded live Dec. 22, 1978 at TBS. Mixed and mastered at Warner Bros. Recording Studios. Recorded at Warner Bros. Recording Studios and The Burbank Studios.
℗ © 1979 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
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DR              Peak         RMS        Duration     Track
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DR15      -0.84 dB   -18.38 dB      3:32 01 - Chuck E.'s in Love
DR16      -3.78 dB   -26.74 dB      2:34 02 - On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
DR14      -1.37 dB   -18.55 dB      3:18 03 - Night Train
DR13      -0.25 dB   -16.21 dB      4:07 04 - Young Blood
DR16      -3.64 dB   -23.00 dB      3:20 05 - Easy Money
DR15      -0.00 dB   -19.95 dB      4:08 06 - The Last Chance Texaco
DR16      -0.00 dB   -18.72 dB      4:06 07 - Danny's All-Star Joint
DR17      -1.81 dB   -23.72 dB      3:52 08 - Coolsville
DR16      -0.00 dB   -18.27 dB      6:03 09 - Weasel and the White Boys Cool
DR12      -3.42 dB   -21.24 dB      4:54 10 - Company
DR14      -7.20 dB   -29.33 dB      2:15 11 - After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR15
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2330 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Reviews
AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann:

With her expressive soprano voice employing sudden alterations of volume and force, and her lyrical focus on Los Angeles street life, Rickie Lee Jones comes on like the love child of Laura Nyro and Tom Waits on her self-titled debut album. Given the population of colorful characters who may or may not be real people that populate her songs -- Chuck E., Bragger, Kid Sinister, and others -- she also might have had Bruce Springsteen in her bloodline (that is, the Springsteen of his first two albums), and her jazzbo sensibility suggests Mose Allison as a grandfather. Producers Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, who know all about assisting quirky singer/songwriters with their visions, have brought in a studio full of master session musicians, many of them with jazz credentials, and apparently instructed them to follow Jones' stop-and-start, loud-and-soft vocalizing, then overdubbed string parts here and there. The music thus has a sprung rhythmic feel that follows the contours of Jones' impressionistic stories about scuffling people on the streets and in the bars. There is an undertow of melancholy that becomes more overt toward the end, as the narrator's friends and lovers clear out, leaving her "Standing on the corner/All alone," as she sings in the final song, "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)." It's a long way, if only 40 minutes or so, from the frolicsome opener, "Chuck E.'s in Love," which had concluded that he was smitten by "the little girl who's singin' this song." But then, the romance of the street is easily replaced by its loneliness. Rickie Lee Jones is an astounding debut album that simultaneously sounds like a synthesis of many familiar styles and like nothing that anybody's ever done before, and it heralds the beginning of a potentially important career.
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