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Last chance Texaco : chronicles of an American troubadour / Rickie Lee Jones.

Jones, Rickie Lee, (author.).

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ISBN: 0802127126
ISBN: 9780802127129
ISBN: 9780802127129
ISBN: 0802127126
Physical Description: xviii, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : a prelude to gravity -- The back seat -- Riding shotgun -- Driver's seat -- The way back seat.

Summary, etc.:

"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now- iconic performance on Saturday Night Live. The year was 1979, the song "Chuck E's in Love," and the singer, donning her trademark red beret, was the soon-to-be-pronounced "Duchess of Coolsville" (Time), Rickie Lee Jones. Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of one of rock's hardest working women, in her own words. With candor and lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey of her exceptional life: from her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers, to her father's abandonment of the family and her years as a teenage runaway, her beginnings at LA's Troubadour club, to her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, and longevity as a woman in rock and roll. These are never-before-told stories of the girl in "the raspberry beret," a songwriter who has inspired American culture for decades"-- Provided by publisher.