0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Arts & Architecture > Music

Buy Now

Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of an American Troubadour (Hardcover) Loot Price: R774
Discovery Miles 7 740
You Save: R108 (12%)
Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of an American Troubadour (Hardcover): Rickie Lee Jones

Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of an American Troubadour (Hardcover)

Rickie Lee Jones

 (sign in to rate)
List price R882 Loot Price R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 | Repayment Terms: R73 pm x 12* You Save R108 (12%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Black Cat
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2021
Authors: Rickie Lee Jones
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2712-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Music > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-8021-2712-6
Barcode: 9780802127129

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Every Day Is An Opening Night - Our…
Des & Dawn Lindberg Paperback  (1)
R430 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz, David Ritz Paperback R453 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710
Syd Kitchen - Scars That Shine
Donve Lee Paperback R260 R208 Discovery Miles 2 080
Feel Free - Essays
Zadie Smith Paperback  (1)
R335 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Elvis Costello Paperback  (1)
R462 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800
The Lyrics - 1956 To The Present
Paul McCartney Hardcover R1,985 R1,549 Discovery Miles 15 490
Beyond The Story - 10 Year Record Of BTS
Bts, Myeongseok Kang Hardcover  (4)
R1,299 R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140
Dylan Goes Electric - Newport, Seeger…
Elijah Wald Paperback R330 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290
Renegades - Born In The USA
Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen Hardcover  (1)
R1,102 R891 Discovery Miles 8 910
Scatterling Of Africa - My Early Years
Johnny Clegg Paperback  (1)
R360 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090
Musical Echoes - South African Women…
Carol Ann Muller, Sathima Bea Benjamin Paperback R972 Discovery Miles 9 720
Poker Face - The Rise and Rise of Lady…
Maureen Callahan Paperback  (1)
R457 Discovery Miles 4 570

See more

Partners