A LIFE IN PICTURES
Got a Jones for you: Rickie Lee in focus.
1 The Joneses: (from left) Richard, Janet, Danny, Bettye and Rickie Lee. “My family leaned towards the arts.”
2 “I do have quite a bit of prose left in me about that”: Jones with Tom Waits in London, 1979.
3 And the winner is: Rickie Lee celebrates after being crowned Best New Artist at the 22nd Grammy Awards, Los Angeles, July 22, 1980.
4 “My audience is kind of smart”: with Bob Dylan, who also challenges fans, 1980.
5 There’s a ghost in my house: with Dr. John, sharer of both RLJ’s hauntings and her affinity for New Orleans.
6 “Going from one thing to another”: Jones on-stage circa 1990 as she changes styles between Flying Cowboys and Pop Pop.
7 On-stage with Bruce Springsteen at the New Orleans Jazz
And Heritage Festival, in the city where she lives, May 2014.
8 “I wrote it all over the place”: on-stage in New York, where RLJ wrote much of Pirates, after singing at a David Bowie tribute, 2014.
9 In trademark red beret, as Chuck E.’s In Love breaks into the charts, ‘The Duchess of Coolsville’ tells the Saturday Night Live stage crew a “crude” joke, April 7, 1979.