November 5, 2009 - Evaluating Rickie Lee Jones' new album, "Balm in Gilead," feels like an attempt to answer questions from a Taoist text. Is a journey complete when one returns home? If an adult connects with their youth, is a lesson finished or has it just begun? Jones has ventured on a linear journey over the last 30 years, not so much detouring as taking occasional off ramps, yet this latest stop is the first great reminder of where she started.
May 29, 2007 - Singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones will launch a summer headlining tour in June as she continues to back her most recent album, February's "The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard."
February 6, 2007 - Almost from the onset of her long career, Rickie Lee Jones has been both a musical chameleon and rogue champion of genre exploration.
January 23, 2007 - Singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones looks set to make a splashy return to the spotlight in February with a headlining tour backing the release of her first album in four years, "The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard."
May 24, 2004 - Rickie Lee Jones, who continues to support her first album of all-new material in six years, has lined up about a dozen June concerts, and more shows are in the works.
December 23, 2003 - Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, backing her first album of all-new material in six years, launches a month-long round of tour dates in late January.
October 27, 2003 - With her first all-new album in six years now in stores, singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has lined up a month-long North American tour.
June 27, 2000 - Acoustic swing legends Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks have returned to the studio for the first time since 1976. "Beatin' the Heat" (Surfdog), due on August 15, includes appearances by Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones, Bette Midler, Brian Setzer and Tom Waits.
September 28, 1999 - Rickie Lee Jones, who hasn't performed in New York since 1997's tour in support of the album "Ghostyhead," has been booked for a five-show engagement at the downtown cabaret Joe's Pub. A single show is set for Oct. 15, and she will perform two shows each on Oct. 17 and 18.
Evaluating Rickie Lee Jones' new album, "Balm in Gilead," feels like an attempt to answer questions from a Taoist text. Is a journey complete when one returns home? If an adult connects with their youth, is a lesson finished or has it just begun? Jones has ventured on a linear journey over the last 30 years, not so much detouring as taking occasional off ramps, yet this latest stop is the first great reminder of where she started.
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