After a handful of intimate dates in the UK, finishing with a breathtaking show at Union Chapel, More Than The Music caught up with Rickie Lee Jones to get more insight into her career.
More Than The Music: Your career has spanned 3 decades, how do you ensure your writing stays fresh and innovative?
Rickie Lee Jones: That is subjective, of course, but I purposefully challenge myself to do things that I don’t know how to do, or have never done, to try things that I have wanted to do but simply didn’t for some reason. When you throw yourself into new situations – I mean, at...
Despite a career spanning three decades and becoming infamous for that Rolling Stone cover picture, Rickie walks on to the Union Chapel stage with an air of vulnerability. She smiles before starting a low key, acoustic rendition of Altar Boy, which is transformed by a discerning violin accompaniment. Then she begins to take the audience through her extensive back catalogue, with renditions of the haunting, A Tree On Allenford and Satellites. Despite Rickie being seated at the drum kit, Satellites, both musically and vocally, lacks the punch that the album version offers and she breaks into...
