Rickie Lee Jones: The Magazine (Warner Bros)
Ian Penman, NME, October 1984
For song, as sung by you, is ... not
Wooing of something finally attained.
Far other is the breath of real singing.
An aimless breath. A stirring in the god. A breeze. (Rilke)
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