the strange and solitary world of rickie lee jones.

welcome, thank you, hold up a sign for someone else...and the posting of the podcasts..

I have spent a lifetime in motels and hotels, back stage rooms and upstairs dressing areas. many stairs. pieces of paper with names of songs and songs with paper wings made of fire. I’ve sung my heart out and my heart has kept on beating, crazy like, and when I am alone and sleeping I can hear the heart beat of a collective story. A collection by an editor whose shape we cannot or will not See. But we sure do like Their work. i look up alot. i watch birds all the time. I look down, too. I carry the spiders outside and liberate all the bugs waiting by the windows . I am careful with lizards. there just is no living species I am not in awe of.

When I look straight ahead I see a wide screen version of a life i used to stare down, stare down so intensely the audience ran from the theaters. or maybe I just scared them acouple of times. But nowadays I let everyone see the bright of me and leave them out of the dark. still, once in a while i get the blues.

i was looking - just looking - at the rules for migrating to New Zealand and saw that ARtisTs are welcome. But …the unique talent visa…says I can’t be older than 55.

looking over my shoulder I see following me a shadow. Shaped like me, it reaches back each time I reach out.

welcome, all subscribers.. thanks for finding me!

The Posting of the podcast…….Finally posted the podcast I began last autumn... the last one for the triptych on the evolution of folk-rock into the singer-songwriter genre. and more than that, it’s about the pivotal songwriters of the 1970's the voices who define and solidified the genre. Icons. Characters Who brought it further This last episode is an hour long. I did all of it myself. I Learned how to use the program and edited it, do it over and over each time it sounded a little better. It was alot of work! and I loved every minute of it. I hope you guys listen to and hear the love I have for my musical fellows. maybe learn something new... how I saw things back then, how i see them now.. I love making radio. but it might be too much work. Work for months on something that maybe…. 8 people listen to, or respond to. know what i mean? It’s interesting though, it’s perhaps like being a constant beginner. Beginner artist… looking for an audience.

Hold up a Sign for Someone else….
Did you know the DJ's on New Orleans’ Wwoz do not get paid? probably shouldn't have published that but those DJ's work harder than me, weekly, on their programs. Jazzfest organization does give “ OZ : alot of money. I hear.

Thank You…
I was watching Patti Smith. I enjoy watching her here on Substack.
and... thanks again to Neko Case for our talk last week. It was very fun. She is a quality dame.
Bon Iver, whose new record comes out this week, a member of the mutual appreciation society, mentioning my work as inspirational to him in some PR. me and the indigo girls. I mention it here because It's important to note it, to say thank you. Kindness, truth, No? It's just not the time to be so cool you don't pay attention. we have the capacity to send love in so many directions. We gotta let each other know what’s Good. https://www.avclub.com/new-music-fridays-april-11-bon-iver-pulp-garbage

Welcome…
WELCOME to the New Subscribers! lots of stuff for the paying members and enough for the free, too, I think. anyway, good to see here. And, hey hey to the folks who joined early on. you know, thank you too. There’s plenty to eat here on Fish Sticks so Stay outta trouble.

and have a good, safe weekend y'all.
- Rickie Lee Jones