“I've grown up, people, that's why you are here.” Actually, it doesn't divert you, but it makes you forget the reason you're doing it is so you can't sing.
All this talking… While it's fun to meet new people, it diverts you from your real purpose of singing. Rickie Lee Jones: I'm looking forward to singing. Her connection to these great composers and their songs came through passionately during our recent chat. Rickie Lee Jones' story, as she says, is a trip through the Last Chance Texaco (the title of her autobiography), and it all comes through on her new album Pieces Of Treasure, which was released on April 28 on BMG/Modern and which she performed live at Birdland in NYC on April 6-8. She knew songs from Jule Styne, Harry Warren, George & Ira Gershwin, Arlen & Mercer, Kurt Weill and Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, singing them all at the age of 8, when she wasn't singing tunes from West Side Story. fell in love, Rickie Lee was in love with The American Standard. My recent conversation with Rickie Lee Jones is strong testament to the latter.
You look around you and you constantly read and hear about Renaissance men, but never enough about Renaissance women.
