On this episode of AOS, singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones chats with WBGO's Gary Walker about her new album Pieces of Treasure.
Long before Chuck E. fell in love, Rickie Lee was in love with The American Standard. 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. 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. Her connection to these great composers and their songs came through passionately during Gary Walker's recent chat with Rickie Lee Jones.
