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Rickie Lee Jones Follows Own Beat

Charles Bermant, USA Today, 5 June 1997

IT HAS BEEN 18 years since Rickie Lee Jones breezed in with the eccentric bop of 'Chuck E.'s in Love'. A one-hit wonder on radio, she has followed that spotlight moment with richly textured, lyrical albums that draw from myriad musical and verbal influences. She has eluded categorization throughout and probably couldn't be more unique if she tried.

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