Rickie Lee Jones Shares The Soundtrack To Her Youth : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music from WXPN : NPR
for World Cafe.) In 1979, "Chuck E's In Love" by Rickie Lee Jones was nominated by the Recording Academy for song of the year. That was just one of four Grammy nominations Jones picked up after releasing her debut album earlier that year. In this session, you'll hear Jones perform some of the music from that debut album, and she talks about her life and career with World Cafe New Orleans correspondent Gwen Thompkins. Jones has just released a memoir called Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour. In it, she tells stories about growing up in a family that seemed to be co...
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