CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
An Intimate Evening with Rickie Lee Jones
Performers
Rickie Lee Jones
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.Presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with WFUV.
Bios
Rickie Lee Jones
Two-time Grammy Award winner Rickie Lee Jones exploded onto the pop scene in
1978 and has made a career of fearlessly experimenting with her sound and persona over 15
critically acclaimed albums. A cultural phenomenon, Rolling Stone magazine put her
on its cover twice in two years, and Saturday Night Live gave her an unprecedented
three songs for her second appearance. Rickie is both a character in the songs and the
songwriter singing, defying convention with her sometimes brazen sexuality and the mixed
bag of jazz, rock, and what has come to be known as "confessional" songwriter
performances.
Her latest album, The Other Side of Desire, was written, recorded, and rooted in
the city of New Orleans, where Rickie lives on the opposite side of the street made famous
by Tennessee Williams. Produced by John Porter (of Roxy Music) and Mark Howard, this is the
first new music Rickie has written in more than a decade.
"This work is inspired by many years of sitting with all the events of my life until I had
something to paint with," she says. "I came to New Orleans to write and to live a different
way than what I have known on the West Coast … Here is another record, made of my
imagination and whatever else that has no words, using the clay of this place and the
shapes of my eyes to form some kind of picture of my life, or my heart, that I alone can
understand and hopefully that others can enjoy."