Her eponymous first album. If there is a god, and I know there isn’t, he would play this album over and over in heaven. because that is what heaven would sound like.
I agree, and I have written about this before. Very underrated album.
I would hope that it isn’t underrated, but just forgotten. God, could you even imagine an American Idol hopeful trying to do a RLJ song justice?
Hey, Argent Towers, have you heard, or do you know about Robinella and the CC String Band?
She’s truly one of the greats. Listening to *Ghostyhead *a lot recently.
I dunno… has there EVER been a clunkier rhyme in the history of music than:
Downstairs at Danny’s All-Star Joint
They got a jukebox that goes “doyt-doyt.”
If you have to make up meaningless words, why not make up meaningless words that actually RHYME? “Doynt-doynt” would be no less stupid, and it would actually rhyme with “joint.”
I am tempted to say that you just don’t “get it”, but I won’t say that. Hey, you don’t like RLJ, and that’s okay. Did it ever occur to you that “doyt-doyt” might actually mean something, and that is why RLJ didn’t say “Doynt-doynt”? In any case, it’s called “scatting”, look it up, you might learn something! 
That’s okay, I’ll say it.
astorian just doesn’t get it.
Do you (astorian) think she came up with “doyt-doyt” only because she was desperate to find something to rhyme with “Joint” but that was as close as she could come? Man, that’s just weird. And that’s putting it nicely. Doesn’t matter whether you like her music or not—it’s just kinda a fucked-up attempt at thinking.
Heck, I’ve just gotta post in this thread. I agree with all the other posters … (well except for astorian that is).
It’s good to know I’m not the only Rickie Lee Jones fan.
Fiddle Peghead’s OP is a succinct, well-worded threadstarter.
I heard them on the radio in 2003 when I was working for the city doing road maintenance as a summer job. I later drove myself crazy trying to figure out who they were, because I liked the singer’s voice so much; but I couldn’t remember the name. Finally it came to me and I was able to remember it, and I bought their CD, but it’s now lost; vanished into the ether like many of my possessions over the years.
If you like RLJ, look for Stina Nordenstam, a Norwegian jazz/acid-jazz singer who keeps making me think of early RLJ, only softened a bit. Think of a kind of triangulation of RLJ, Blossom Dearie, and Bjork, and someone in there is what Stina sounds like.
Been enjoying both Danny’s All Star Joint & Chuck E’s In Love a lot lately.
Written about it on the dope? Where?
There was a thread some time ago about how I wanted to fuck Ricki Lee Jones (the 1980s version of her, I guess) - it was because of her sexy voice.
Funny. I used to say to my brother that if you could fuck a voice, I’d want to fuck Lucinda William’s voice. Rickie’s would be a close second.
Aaaaaand we’re back to the gutter. Seriously, why is this kind of aggressive misogyny more acceptable than other reportable transgressions? How is turning every thread that’s about a female artist into a caveman spoogefest NOT threadshitting?
“…Yahweh’s in love! Yahweh’s in lo-ove!..”
I’ve heard highly fuckable men’s voices, too. My mind just works that way.
Back to our topic. I have been a fan of Ricki Lee Jones forevah. Kid Kalhoun (at the age of 4) used to say, “Mom! Put on Chunky Lovers for me!” 
She can do no wrong in my book. She’s a unique treasure.
Well, as far as my saying that if you could fuck a voice, and that would be Lucinda’s, it wasn’t meant to be misogynistic in any way. If it came across that way, then I do apologize.
Truth be told, it was just some drunken thing I said to my brother. And come on, it you ever heard Lucinda sing “The Fruits of My Labor”, you’d know what I’m talking about.
Frankly, based on my memory of her, her appearance, her talent…I’m amazed anyone was able to be around her without sporting a constant erection - or maybe it was just my fantasy world…