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Rickie Lee Jones

Last Chance Texaco

A Book of the Year in Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, The Telegraph and the Glasgow Herald

This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.
Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones, in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music.
With candour and lyricism, the 'Duchess of Coolsville' (Time) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits, and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee's stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs — 'Chuck E's in Love,' 'Weasel and the White Boys Cool,' 'Danny's All-Star Joint' and 'Easy Money' — but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, a pimp with a heart of gold, and tales of her fabled ancestors.
In this electrifying and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing and tenacious women in music are never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired pop culture for decades.
477 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
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Quotes

  • Eleonora Leonettihas quoted3 years ago
    Laura Nyro was a teacher for me at a time when I was starving for musical direction, when I needed emotional enunciation. Her dignity didn’t transcend circumstances, it celebrated them.

    There, that was the direction I wanted to grow in. A sun formed and brought an orderly orbit to my randomly scattered planets.
  • Eleonora Leonettihas quoted3 years ago
    Musicians opened the door to imaginary places, to better realities, and Jimi’s music was the place I belonged. This young man penetrated my teenage mind. He transcended. Hendrix was ethereal, and few of us ever reach that cloud.
  • Eleonora Leonettihas quoted3 years ago
    Who can say what anyone experiences when it comes to music?
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