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Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of an American Troubadour (Hardcover)
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Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of an American Troubadour (Hardcover)
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A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable,
trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy
Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her
generation" (Hilton Als), Rickie Lee Jones. This troubadour life is
only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be
broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a
new song. Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred
account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee
Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and
impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds
and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her
time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With
candor and lyricism, the "Duchess of Coolsville" (Time) takes us on
a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a
teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits
and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock
and roll. Rickie Lee's stories are rich with the infamous
characters of her early songs - "Chuck-E's in Love," "Weasel and
the White Boys Cool," "Danny's All-Star Joint," and "Easy Money"--
but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a
vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug
mules, a pimp with a heart of gold and tales of her fabled
ancestors. In this tender and intimate memoir by one of the most
remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music are
never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a
singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired
American pop culture for decades.
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