A Book of the Year in Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, The Telegraph and
the Glasgow Herald 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 candour 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
electrifying 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 pop culture for
decades.
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