Gothic Theatre
Rickie Lee Jones
Once touted as the natural successor to Joni Mitchell, singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones proved no less idiosyncratic or mercurial; like Mitchell, Jones experienced significant commercial success at the outset of her career, but a restless creative spirit — combined with a stubborn refusal to fit comfortably into any one musical niche — sealed her ultimate destiny as that of a highly-regarded cult heroine.
Rickie Lee Jones goes back to her roots with many of the tracks on Evening Of My Best Day. “It Takes You There” recalls the tender zing of Flying Cowboy’s only radio hit “Satellites.” And before everything officially began on EOMBD she joined herself with David Kalish, a close friend and accomplished guitarist who had worked with her on 1981’s quaintmasterpiece Pirates. And his influence is heard through many of the tracks.
“I was preoccupied with life,” Rickie Lee Jones says. “I was living in Washington, mostly tending to a garden and raising my daughter. I had neither impetus or inspiration to write. It was an empty slate and there was no sense that anything would ever be coming again.” Rickie Lee Jones says of her six-year writing block. But EOMD, Rickie’s latest lyrical masterpiece, proves that she has fully recovered.
Not only that—she’s as vital a songwriter as ever. It wasn’t easy for her in the beginning and snapping out of her block required a lot of dedication.
