Rickie Lee Jones: So Many Roads
Steve LaBate, Paste, 27 August 2012
OVER UNDERSTATED, PERCUSSIVE ACOUSTIC GUITAR and the barely-there, spectral drone of an ancient organ, the voice of Rickie Lee Jones seeps like water from a cracked glass — slowly, delicately, trickling across the music's tiny, blessed imperfections, shifting directions without warning as it drags along the jagged edges, then slipping subtly back into the flow before snaking once again into a new meander.
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