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American Pirate On The Rocks: Rickie Lee Jones

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 9 July 1983

On a rare visit from her new home in France, Rickie Lee Jones lays down her cutlass and beret to discuss the songwriter's art, dissect the jazz step and look through some old valentines. Richard Cook attends a girl at her volcano and succumbs to the freefall.

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