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    It's Like This

    Rickie Lee Jones likes to mess with musical tradition. After the tweaked trip-hop of 1997's unjustly dissed Ghostyhead, she returns to her tangled roots for another album of retooled pop standards. These are not radical deconstructions a la Cat Power -- just Jones lending her slurred, cozy drawl to...

    2000 RS: 2.5of 5 Stars

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Biography

On Rickie Lee Jones, the beret-wearing, boho-pop singer looks and sounds like she just walked out of a Jack Kerouac novel. Her between-the-cracks singing style -- a mixture of childlike wonderment, jazzy affectation, and almost sobbing intensity -- has its moments, and her songs strive for poetic intimacy. The debut sculpts her quirks into slurred, bebop-light pop tunes such as "Chuck E.'s in...

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