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Rickie Lee Jones: Cocktails for Kerouac and an appointment with the Hype Machine

Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 9 June 1979

ABOUT THE crassest tag anyone has tried to hang on Rickie Lee Jones is that she’s "the female Tom Waits". It is also the kind of tag that will probably cause the recipient a good deal of discomfort over the next year or so.

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