Rickie Lee Jones – Rickie Lee Jones (Vinyl LP)

After years out of print, Rickie Lee Jones’ stunning first two albums – 1979’s self-titled and lauded 1981 follow up Pirates – will receive long overdue vinyl reissues in 2021. Her platinum debut won the Grammy for Best New Artist and saw Jones hailed as a “highly touted new pop-jazz-singer-songwriter” and “one of the best – if not the best – artist of her generation.” In addition to the album’s brilliant songs – including the exceptional “On Saturday Afternoons in 1963,” the haunting “Last Chance Texaco,” and the popular “Chuck E’s in Love” – Jones became a figure whose life was bearing a great deal of emulation by young women and men who found, in her deep and personal and idiosyncratic life and work, a model for the new generation of hipster.

1. Chuck E’s in Love
2. On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
3. Night Train
4. Young Blood
5. Easy Money
6. The Last Chance Texaco
7. Danny’s All-Star Joint
8. Coolsville
9. Weasel and the White Boys Cool
10. Company
11. After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Midnight)