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Apr 27, 2023 · April 27, 2023 by Larry Blumenfeld. Credit: Astor Morgan. There’s a French bulldog that lives in the Bywater section of New Orleans, near the train tracks, named Ragtime Jazzy Joe Jones. Most people just call her Jazzy. Over Zoom, Rickie Lee Jones explains that her daughter came up with that name, as she lets the dog into the yard so we can ...
Apr 6, 2021 · Rickie Lee Jones’ memoir, “Last Chance Texaco,” is the story not just of an iconoclastic singer-songwriter but an American daughter and the family from which she came. (Author photo by...
Jones was born the third of four children to Richard and Bettye Jones, on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, on November 8, 1954. [9] She was named after her father, who was a singer, songwriter, painter, and trumpet player. Her mother, Bettye, was raised in orphanages around Mansfield, Ohio. [10]
Apr 12, 2021 · He had a daughter there, he said; she was with her mother. Then we were quiet. The overwhelming perfection of this night with Van, who had told me, “A fairy got ya!”
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Sep 22, 2021 · 'It really was the Wild West': Rickie Lee Jones shares memories of growing up in Phoenix. Ed Masley. Arizona Republic. 0:04. 0:41. There's a picture of Rickie Lee Jones as a child on...
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Oct 7, 2021 · The suitcase is an apt metaphor. Her parents gave her the gift — or curse — of an undying sense of wanderlust. Last Chance Texaco recounts the family taking to the road when Jones is 4 ...
Apr 29, 2021 · Mar 22, 2022. The singer opens up to “The View” about telling the stories of her family and life through her songs and why she decided to write a memoir about it all.
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