Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile FidelityRickie Lee Jones' Hip, Jazzy Debut as Fresh Today As It Was in 1979Rickie Lee Jones was hip before hipsters came of age. Wearing a beret, exuding supreme cool, and visually demarcating herself as a member of a bohemian underground, her image on the cover of her self-titled debut says as much about the singer-songwriter as it does the music within the grooves. Uninterested in coloring within the lines, Jones steps out, a dreamer in the post-punk age, an adventurous drifter seemingly deaf to the noisiness of her era.
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