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Prologue -- Introduction: a prelude to gravity -- The Back seat -- 1. What were the skies like when you were little? -- 2. Juke box fury -- 3. On Saturday afternoons in 1963 -- 4. A summer song -- 5. The Winston lips of September -- Riding shotgun -- 6. The moon is made of gold -- 7. Gravity -- 8. You never know when you're making a memory -- 9. The summer of 1969 -- 10. Walk on guilded splinters -- 11. Olympia -- 12. Surfer girl on the waterbed -- 13. Turn her over and go... -- 14. Doyt-doyt - Venice Beach -- Driver's Seat -- 15. Easy money -- 16. Young blood -- 17. The man with the star -- 18. Rickie Lee Jones -- The way back seat -- 19. Saturday Night Live -- 20. Ths bus stop blues -- 21. Jazz side of life -- 22. It must be love -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"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."-- Publisher. |
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Jones, Rickie Lee.
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Women rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Women singers -- United States -- Biography.
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Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Singers -- United States -- Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9780802127129
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0802127126
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