Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I named the book Last Chance Texaco because I spent most of my life in cars, vans, and buses. I watched life approach and recede. I was always running away from and moving to new life, but I could never lay down roots. #2 I did drugs like I did everything else. On fire, with no back door. I escaped, of course, and I carried my heart out in a birdcage. But she was...

"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...