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.
[A] gripping, lovely memoir...thrilling, funny, scary, sad, packed
full of life and extraordinary characters....As a portrait of the
artist as a young woman, this book could not be any more
enthralling or fun to read.
*The Believer*
a vivid memoir that traces the arc of her often turbulent life from
unsettled childhood to uneasy fame...If Last Chance Texaco is
haunted by the long shadows of the past, it is also a story of
forgiveness and acceptance...Reading her wild and wonderful book,
one senses that, in a very real way, music was a calling that saved
her life.
*Observer*
Throughout her pre-fame life she experienced moments of great
adventure and shocking personal peril, all of which she has poured
into her magnificent memoir...Very little seems off the table in
this free-spirited book...It is at turns hair-raising, funny,
melancholic and joyous.
*The New Cue*
In this raw and roving life story, Jones depicts a child who
recognized her humanity and worth even when others wouldn't, and a
woman whose confidence helped her rise above heroin addiction,
music-industry sexism and the traumas of her youth.
*Washington Post*
Candid, cosmic, so cool... An impassioned and cinematic trip
through Jones's eventful life. I shouldn't be surprised that Jones
manages to carry her originality, intimacy, and volcanic
expressiveness into book form.
*Boston Globe*
Terrific... The prose is rich and rhythmic, filled with lines that
are pithy ('Rickie Lee is a Frank Capra movie that had been
overtaken by Stanley Kubrick') and poetic ('childhood traumas leave
their dirty footprints on the fresh white snow of our
happy-ever-afters')... Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on
stage.
*Minneapolis Star-Tribune*
one of the most remarkable [memoirs] I've read from a musician, a
first-person commentary on the life and early career of this
extraordinary artist, full of romance and adventure, misadventure
and indiscipline, anecdote and reflection - just the stuff we want
from those free spirits who live the life so that we don't have to,
inviting us to stand and watch in fascination, half admiring and
half appalled.
*The Blue Moment*
One of the most compelling memoirs I've ever read... What really
sucks you in, and lifts you up, is the dazzling magic of her
prose.
*Please Kill Me*
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*
What makes this an inspiring memoir is her absorbing storytelling,
facility with language and fealty to integrity - commerce be
damned.
*Mojo*
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)*
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