Rickie Lee Jones – Rickie Lee Jones (E/VG+) – LP, JP 1979, With OBI

Rickie Lee Jones is an LP by Rickie Lee Jones from 1979 released on the Warner Bros. Records label.

About this album

Rickie Lee Jones is a striking debut that fused jazz phrasing, R&B feel and sharp pop songwriting into one of 1979’s most distinctive introductions. Led by the breakout single Chuck E.’s In Love, the album announced Jones as a singular new voice: witty, streetwise and emotionally elastic, with vocals that could sound playful one moment and bruised the next. The record’s blend of laid-back groove, narrative detail and melodic immediacy helped it earn major critical acclaim and established Jones as an original presence in late-1970s American rock. Its enduring reputation rests on a sound that felt both coolly crafted and completely personal.