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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Music: CDs | | | Artist: | Jones, Rickie Lee | | Release Date: | Jun 28, 2005 | | | Format: | CD | | Record Label: | Rhino Records (USA) | | | Number of Discs: | 3 Discs | | UPC: | 081227971526 | | | Genre: | Rock | | Album Type: | Box Set | | | Sub-Genre: | Classic: Other | | Condition: | New | | | |
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"Career overviews programmed by the artists themselves are generally inconsistent affairs, usually due to the musicians' own eccentricities. For Duchess of Coolsville, this long-overdue Rickie Lee Jones compilation covering the years 1979-2003, she decided to sequence most of the songs in alphabetical order. It's a unique, yet rather bizarre, concept that dispenses with all sense of continuity, either chronological or musical. While this randomness behooves an artist as willfully eclectic as Jones, it also makes for a rollercoaster listening experience. Selecting tracks from 10 albums that alternately focused on folk, jazz, pop standards, and even electronica makes putting together any compilation of Jones's work a tough assignment, especially since each of her records has a distinctive flow. The 34 selections on the first two discs hit most, but not all, of the highlights from her often patchy releases. Disc 3 unearths seven demos, some live tracks, and several collaborations, few of which are revelatory.
Long in need of a sonic shining, these songs sparkle with fresh remastering, revealing production details most listeners will hear for the first time. While not the best or most coherent collection of Rickie Lee Jones's work that could have been assembled, this anthology provides a reasonably good overview of the Duchess of Coolsville's diverse, distinctive, and often dynamic career." --Hal Horowitz
"Rickie Lee Jones' career ascent began after famed rock front man Lowell George recored her composition "Easy Money" for a Little Feat album. As an inimitable song stylist, she first made her indelible mark with the scat-flavored hist "Chuck E's In Love" from her acclaimed 1979 self-titled debut LP. Ever since, Jones has blazed an artististically idiosyncratic path on a long string of beautiful, adventurous, and personal albums. Her more-than-distinctive vocals encompass rock, jazz, blues, classic pop, folk, and R&B inflections...Textured with fluent wordplay and delivered with true heart, Rickie Lee's sound is one of the most authentic and original in contemporary music."--Press Materials
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| Track listing | DISC 1:
1. Tree on Allenford, A
2. Altar Boy
3. Beat Angels
4. Bitchenostrophy
5. Bye Bye Blackbird
6. Chuck E's in Love
7. Company
8. Coolsville
9. Cycles
10. Firewalker
11. Flying Cowboys
12. Ghost Train
13. Hey Bub
14. It Must Be Love
15. Living It Up
16. Magazine
17. On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
18. Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)
19. Sailor Song
DISC 2:
1. Satellites
2. Scary Chinese Movie
3. Skeletons
4. Stewart's Goat
5. Horses, The
6. Last Chance Texaco, The
7. Tigers
8. Traces of the Western Slopes
9. Ugly Man
10. Up From the Skies
11. Vessel of Light
12. We Belong Together
13. Weasel and the White Boys Cool
14. Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking
DISC 3:
1. Sunshine Superman
2. Makin' Whoopie! - (with Dr. John)
3. Autumn Leaves - (with Rob Wasserman)
4. Atlas' Marker (The Aviator) - (live, with Bill Frisell)
5. Easter Parade - (with The Blue Nile)
6. My Funny Valentine - (live)
7. Something Cool - (live)
8. Evening of My Best Day, The - (live)
9. Young Blood - (Demo)
10. After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight) - (Demo)
11. Easy Money - (previously unreleased, Demo)
12. Rodeo Girl - (previously unreleased, Demo)
13. Satellites - (previously unreleased, Demo)
14. Rondo For 3 Apartments on 34th Street - (previously unreleased, Demo)
15. Atlas' Marker - (Bruce mix, previously unreleased, Demo)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Bill Frisell, Dr. John, Leo Kottke, Randy Newman, Rob Wasserman, The Blue Nile | | Producer: | David Was, Karen Ahmed (Compilation), Lenny Waronker, Rickie Lee Jones (Compilation), Rickie Lee Jones, Russ Titelman, Walter Becker | | Distributor: | WEA (distr) | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel include: Rickie Lee Jones (vocals, guitar, keyboards); David Hidalgo (vocals, 8-string guitar); Dr. John (vocals, keyboards); Syd Straw (vocals); Rick Boston (various instruments); Steve Lukather, Buzz Feiten (guitar); Leo Kottke (acoustic guitar, slide guitar); Bill Frisell (electric guitar); Greg Phillinganes (keyboard); Randy Newman (synthesizer); Chuck Rainey (bass instrument); Rob Wasserman (double bass); Willie Weeks (bass guitar); Alex Acuna (drums, congas); Jeff Porcaro, Jim Keltner, Steve Gadd (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion).
While it's baffling that there was no Rickie Lee Jones anthology before 2005's DUCHESS OF COOLSVILLE, this remarkable box set more than makes up for the absence. Co-produced by Jones herself, the three-disc Rhino compilation remains in line with the singer/songwriter's idiosyncratic aesthetic in the way it cleverly careens through her career. The first disc alone shifts from 2003's THE EVENING OF MY BEST DAY to 1993's TRAFFIC FROM PARADISE, then later presents a trio of songs from Jones's acclaimed self-titled '79 debut, before landing briefly on her 1997 trip-hop album, GHOSTYHEAD. Yet the set flows wonderfully, revealing the consistent quality of Jones's ever-changing musical vision.
Plenty of Jones's best songs are here, including her only true "hit," the poppy "Chuck E's in Love," and "The Horses," a beautiful ode to her daughter, co-written with Steely Dan's Walter Becker. For the Jones faithful, the third disc is the real revelation, since it includes a slew of previously unreleased live tracks and demos, in addition to collaborations with Dr. John, Bill Frisell, the Blue Nile, and others. Ideal for fans and newcomers alike, DUCHESS OF COOLSVILLE represents the full breadth of Jones's artistry.
| | Editorial reviews | 3 stars out of 5 - [M]ost of the signature tunes are here....It's a bold attempt to cover her entire career...
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