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Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates (Vinyl LP)

Rickie Lee Jones – Pirates (Vinyl LP)

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After years out of print, Rickie Lee Jonesstunning first two albums 1979s self-titled and lauded 1981 follow up Pirates will receive long overdue vinyl reissues in January 2019. The Gold-certified Pirates was an even darker, deeper, and richer affair than her debut, and included the haunting We Belong Together, and A Lucky Guy, which Jones has said grew out of her life with Tom Waits. The brilliant characterizations she builds in the lyrics for Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking, and Traces of the Western Slope, are amplified by her voice, which, at times, has the lonesome sound of a train whistle on a wind swept prairie and, at other times, sounds like nothing so much as laughter winding down into a whisper, or a sigh. The album confounded expectations and Jones fast became a poet of the disenfranchised who eschewed any purely commercial considerations when it came to making a song.
Track Listing

  1. We Belong Together
  2. Living It Up
  3. Skeletons
  4. Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking
  5. Pirates [So Long Lonely Avenue]
  6. A Lucky Guy
  7. Traces of the Western Slopes
  8. The Returns

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