Rickie Lee Jones - Evening of My Best Day (Dig)
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Artist: Rickie Lee JonesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: V2 North America
Soundtracks:
- Ugly Man
- A Second Chance
- Bitchenostrophy
- Little Mysteries
- Lap Dog
- Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Acts Now)
- Sailor Song
- A Tree On Allenford
- It Takes You There
- Mink Coat At The Bus Stop
- The Evening of My Best Day
- A Face In The Crowd
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Free Music Review: A Tree Grows in Coolsville
Hit: 5 Stars
Rickie Lee Jones has been imitated, ignored, illustrated, and mistaken for many others through her twenty four years in show business. She has been plagued with comparisons glaore, perhaps because she is too enigmatic to discuss, or perhaps because when she debuted, joni mitchell was the only popular female singer songwriter. Rickie was so much more street. she was a pop star, too, setting fashion trends like mad, that beret showing up on every tv show from the era, that attitude copied on so many t.v. commercials. suddenly it all doesnt matter, because this record renders all of that stuff old and petty news. She is a master now, come into her own.
What she was, and is, is a daring and original voice, not only musically but culturally. singing jazz to pop audiences in 1980, while modanna is singing like a virgin and sting is singing every breath you take, Jones sings My Funny Valentine and Skeletons (her song about a cop mistakenly shooting a man taking his wife to the hospital to have a baby) Her famous love affair
fueled so much romantic speculation that it still seems to ache
in journalists proverbial hearts, like steve and edie, sid and nancy, tom and rickie.... even now they write about those two. And while he rose to fame, she fell from it, and seems to have
lived the last twenty years as an even more enigmatic and idosyncratic poet than any of her musical peers. Yet, somehow denied the rewards of said bohemiania, like vh 1 or rolling
stone, it may have been for the best. Because she knows just who she is,
Perhaps because, like all real things, she just didn't know
how to sell it, it stayed with her, and now is blooming, not only musically, but some other way as well.
Now she has written and sung the greatest record of her career. Will it be remembered as the greatest? I suspect it will.
although she may not be as profoundly relevant to her generation as she was back in '81, then again, she may be. Because Now she has picked up the guantlet of politics, and reminds us with
no minced words who we are and where we come from. this album is laced with some kind of curtis mayfield self respect, john lennon in bed and fighting, Brigette Bardot's hair and perfect Milesish horns with raised fist, as she sings
"revolution..it's finally going to come...everywhere that you're not looking, ugly man" To take on the right without apology, in these times, well , someone HAD to do it, and the question is, what took so long?
I suspect these zero reviews posted here (amoung all the five star) are suspiciously portioned out from the fierce right wing (they network) commandos who attacked her political web site furnitureforthepeople.com, threatening and in typcial O"Rielly fashion, attacking all the people who visit there. That gives some kind of power to the girl, because she is rallying the folks on the internet, on cd, and in the concerts, with such powerful and amazing performances. she is pulling no punches in the articles and interviews about her opinion of Bush. Her shows are reflections of that intention, to rise, to inspire, to be inspired, to be part of this world. And this spirit is all over this work. this is the evening of a great day indeed.
But beautiful, inspired, and true, it's something more. It's new. Nothing like it, really. Nothing like she has ever done, or anyone else. in a time when people through those ideas out like paperclips, hard sell, over stated, over marketed, it's difficult to say with a straight face that something is new, is the best, maybe, but i think this may be one of the best records ever, and somehow, after a long, long, career, the tree blooms now with great courage and color.
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