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Rickie Lee Jones

One of the most important singer-songwriters, period, Jones burst onto the music scene with a self-titled debut that immediately cemented her cred and remains as powerful today as it was when it was released in 1979. Her voice, elegant and melancholy and moving, is like no other. Jones’s new home, New Orleans, looms large on her new album, The Other Side of Desire (TOSOD).


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Mixtape Tracks

Every Picture Tells a Story Rod Stewart
My Funny Valentine Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker
Fair Play Van Morrison
Tonight West Side Story
Embryonic Journey Jefferson Airplane
Sign In Stranger Steely Dan
The Girl from Ipanema Getz/ Gilberto
La Paloma (The Dove) Xavier Cugat
Longer Boats Cat Stevens
Nothing is Easy Jethro Tull
I Ain't Superstitious Jeff Beck
Tipitina Professor Longhair



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