rickie lee jones

洛杉機，1978

第一張大碟

封面人物，1979

2007

2008 年 7 月 20 日南早有一則關於 jones 的文章，由 Dan Deluca 撰寫，錄自 McClatchy-Tribune。

她因 1979 年第一張大碟 Rickie Lee Jones 而成名，而那一年我剛大學畢業。

文章是這樣描述 jones 的 debut：

With her freely swinging debut, Rickie Lee Jones, her hipster reputation was in place. She went out with Tom Waits, and found herself heralded as the next Joni Mitchell.

她對演出和音樂的看法：

"I think of performance as prayer," she says. "What's the right way to say this? Music is the real church, the real place people come to with their hearts open. People are really moved to ecstasy. They smile, and they cry. And they go home and they feel better and renewed for having listened to songs. I think songs are the real sermons."

歌者的感受：

And the experience transforms the singer, as well. "I'm so lifted by making a noise in my body and singing those notes. I drift around the world and go into a building and go, 'Oooh, oooh, ooh, ooh'," she says, singing out. "That's what I do. I don't live like everybody else. Because I'm a singer."

我如何認識 jones？

記不清楚了。 或者是偶然發現，或者是 80 年認識 martin chan 後他向我介紹。

自此喜歡她的音樂，總聯想在紐約一間幽暗的 cafe 獨坐，對生活對哲學在思前在想後。

不得了，要找她 2007 年的大碟 The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard，看看今天的 jones。