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Rickie Lee Jones – Ghostyhead (1997/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:22 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Enterprises
Rickie Lee Jones made a musical turn towards ambient folk pop and jazzy trip hop for her new CD “Ghostyhead”. Jones, who has written beautiful songs in her long career, such as her biggest hit “Chuck E.’s in love” seems to have turned a blind eye with this album. The record sounds dull and incoherent with the absolute low point “Cloud of unknowing”. Four songs are still a bit worthwhile: “Firewalker”, “Ghostyhead”, “Scary Chinese movie” and “Vessel of light”
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Rickie Lee Jones – Pieces of Treasure (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:09 minutes | 597 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modern Recordings
‘Pieces of Treasure’, Rickie Lee Jones’ 2023 album, has been a long time coming. In a career that has spanned more than four decades, the renowned singer songwriter has interpreted an extraordinarily wide range of songs from writers and artists she loves, often collected on the same album – showtunes, blues, folk, rock (David Bowie publicly praised her take on ‘Rebel Rebel’). She was nominated for a 1989 Best Jazz Vocal Performance Grammy for her rendition of ‘Autumn Leaves’ from Rob Wasserman’s Duets album; a year later she won in the same category for her duet with Dr. John of ‘Makin’ Whoopee’. She has released the celebrated jazz-leaning albums ‘Girl at Her Volcano’ and ‘Pop Pop’, but until now, she had never devoted an entire album to the American Songbook. ‘Pieces of Treasure’ – the title a callback to Jones’ seminal album ‘Pirates’ – is a reunion with legendary producer Russ Titelman, who had, with former Warner Bros. Records head Lenny Waronker, co-produced her star-making 1980 self-titled debut and the follow up, ‘Pirates’.
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Rickie Lee Jones – Traffic From Paradise (1993) [Analogue Productions Remaster 2012]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:51 minutes | Scans included | 1,83 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 894 MB
“Just give me many chances…time to learn to crawl,” sings Rickie Lee Jones on this, her fifth album of new material in 14 years. Clearly, she’s had a lot of chances already, and some have paid off big. Here, however, Jones has made a record of what sound like rough performances of musical ideas that might at some point become songs and then, with some work, acceptable recordings. As it is, the record is vague and unfocused, only aspiring to coherence when someone other than Jones is heard from, such as the two songs co-written by Leo Kottke. Too much of the time, Jones sounds like she’s singing half-forgotten songs, and the result is wispy and fragmentary.
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard (2006)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:09 minutes | Scans included | 3,34 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 53:35 mins | Scans included | 1,13 GB
Fans of Rickie Lee Jones and Jesus Christ can decide whether this devotional music is rapturously spiritual or deliriously strange. It sounds like nothing Jones has previously released, or anything characterizable as contemporary Christian. Instead, her voice soars and wobbles through repetitive, stream-of-consciousness incantations over rhythmic throbs and pulses. Rickie Lee sounds completely tapped in, alive and vital, heading down some mighty interesting roads and discovering new magical essences. Lots of creative sparks here–plenty of them. She sounds like she’s going through a transformation throughout the album in a way that’s reminiscent of Van Morrison’s performances on his classic album Astral Weeks.
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Rickie Lee Jones – Pirates (1981) [MFSL 2009]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 38:40 minutes | Scans included | 1,56 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 725 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2040
Rickie Lee Jones’ Pirates arrives like a cloudburst in the desert of Eighties formula pop music and recycled heavy-metal rock.” So wrote Stephen Holden in Rolling Stone in his five-star review of the eclectic artist’s sophomore record, a 1981 set that continues to defy eras and styles.
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Rickie Lee Jones – It’s Like This (2000) [Analogue Productions’ Remaster 2008]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 37:21 minutes | Scans included | 1,61 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 775 MB
Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Soft Rock
Not since Billie Holiday has there been a vocalist who so completely transforms a song into her own. On It’s Like This, eclectic folkie Rickie Lee Jones envelops standards, showtunes, ’70s soul, and even slick jazz-rock, interpreting them with her familiar childlike, breathy shouts. In a very similar vein as 1991’s Pop Pop, Jones pulls together a collection of diverse songs from throughout the 20th century and gives them a sparse, fragile spin, kind of like Diana Krall and Björk sharing coffee at an all-night diner.
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