PERFORMER: RICKIE LEE JONES
ALBUM: TRAFFIC FROM PARADISE
LABEL: GEFFEN
THE BOTTOM LINE: Back on personal turf, Jones captures fallen angels and broken hearts in strands of vivid poetry.
Long before ''cool'' got hot and poetry became the latest MTV fad, Rickie Lee Jones was striking beatnik poses on album covers and writing jazzy rhymes about a hipster demimonde of oddballs, outcasts and free spirits. On albums like Pirates (1981) and Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was balanced and embellished by her increasingly sophisticated flair for elaborate instrumental settings. Then, two years ago, she switched gears and released Pop Pop,...
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