Last Chance Texaco

Chronicles of a Troubadour

Rickie Lee Jones

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Grove Press
01 June 2021

Music; Autobiography: general; Memoirs

Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on prime time television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now iconic performance on Saturday Night Live. The year was 1979, the song 'Chuck E's in Love,' and the singer, donning her trademark red beret, was the soon to be pronounced 'Duchess of Coolsville' (Time), Rickie Lee Jones.

Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever account of the life of one of rock's hardest working women, in her own words. With candour and lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey of her exceptional life: from her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers to her father's abandonment of the family and her years as a teenage runaway, from her beginnings at LA's Troubadour club to her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, motherhood as a touring artist and longevity as a woman in rock and roll.

These are never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a songwriter and performer who has been a major influence on contemporary popular culture.

By: Rickie Lee Jones
Imprint: Grove Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Export/Airside
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 433g
ISBN: 9781611854466
ISBN 10: 1611854466
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: What Were the Skies like When You Were Little? 2: Juke Box Fury 3: On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 4: A Summer Song 5: The Winston Lips of September 6: The Moon Is Made of Gold 7: Gravity 8: You Never Know When You're Making a Memory 9: The Summer of 1969 10: Walk on Guilded Splinters 11: Olympia 12: Surfer Girl on the Waterbed 13: Turn Her Over and Go . . . 14: Doyt-Doyt-Venice Beach 15: Easy Money 16: Young Blood 17: The Man with the Star 18: Rickie Lee Jones 19: Saturday Night Live 20: The Bus Stop Blues 21: Jazz Side of Life 22: It Must Be Love

Rickie Lee Jones has released seventeen albums, most recently 'Kicks' (2019). She lives in New Orleans.

Reviews for Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of a Troubadour

The premier song-stylist and songwriter of her generation. -- Hilton Als One of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic vocalists of our time. * USA Today * This tender, fierce, intimate memoir is testament that Jones has lived a life as brave, idiosyncratic, and rich as her music - with love, heartbreak, addiction, and magic, sprinkled throughout. * O, the Oprah magazine * In gorgeous prose ( I did drugs like I did everything else. On fire, with no back door ) interspersed with her lyrics, this is as distinctive as she is, a rich, bracing, and candid memoir dancing with the love of language. * Booklist (starred review) * Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart...but Jones knows a good story and how to tell it. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *