Artist:   RICKIE LEE JONES

Title:   “Rickie Lee Jones”

Label:   Mobile Fidelity Sound Laboratories ~ MFSL 1-089. 

Audiophile pressing, specially plated and pressed on High Definition Super Vinyl by VICTOR Company of Japan, Ltd.  

From the original stereo master tape under license from Warner Bros. Records, Inc.  Label is white with black text. 

Year:   1983 

Review: 

“With her expressive soprano voice employing sudden alterations of volume and force, and her lyrical focus on Los Angeles street life, Rickie Lee Jones comes on like the love child of Laura Nyro and Tom Waits on her self-titled debut album.  Given the population of colorful characters who may or may not be real people that populate her songs -- Chuck E., Bragger, Kid Sinister, and others -- she also might have had Bruce Springsteen in her bloodline (that is, the Springsteen of his first two albums), and her jazzbo sensibility suggests Mose Allison as a grandfather.  Producers Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, who know all about assisting quirky singer/songwriters with their visions, have brought in a studio full of master session musicians, many of them with jazz credentials, and apparently instructed them to follow Jones' stop-and-start, loud-and-soft vocalizing, then overdubbed string parts here and there.  The music thus has a sprung rhythmic feel that follows the contours of Jones' impressionistic stories about scuffling people on the streets and in the bars.  There is an undertow of melancholy that becomes more overt toward the end, as the narrator's friends and lovers clear out, leaving her "Standing on the corner/All alone," as she sings in the final song, "After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)."   It's a long way, if only 40 minutes or so, from the frolicsome opener, "Chuck E.'s in Love," which had concluded that he was smitten by "the little girl who's singin' this song."  But then, the romance of the street is easily replaced by its loneliness.  Rickie Lee Jones is an astounding debut album that simultaneously sounds like a synthesis of many familiar styles and like nothing that anybody's ever done before, and it heralds the beginning of a potentially important career.” 

(courtesy William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com.) 

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with utmost care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:  Jacket is NEAR MINT with flawless front and back panels.  Nice seams and corners.  No writing, stickers, or other problems.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display. 

Record is enclosed in original rice paper sleeve.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Chuck E’s In Love On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 Night Train Young Blood Easy Money The Last Chance Texaco  

Side Two:

Danny’s All-Star Joint Coolsville Weasel and the White Boys Cool Company After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)

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