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Last chance Texaco : chronicles of an American troubadour / Rickie Lee Jones.

by Jones, Rickie Lee.

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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2021.

Jones, Rickie Lee.

Singers -- United States -- Biography.

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

9781443464628 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Chronicles of an American troubadour

1st Canadian ed.

xviii, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"One weekend night on prime time television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now iconic performance on Saturday Night Live. The year was 1979, the song 'Chuck E's in Love,' and the singer, donning her trademark red beret, was the soon to be pronounced 'Duchess of Coolsville' (Time), Rickie Lee Jones. 'Last Chance Texaco' is the first-ever account of the life of one of rock's hardest working women, in her own words. With candor and lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey of her exceptional life: from her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers to her father's abandonment of the family and her years as a teenage runaway, from her beginnings at LA's Troubadour club to her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, motherhood as a touring artist, and longevity as a woman in rock and roll. These are never-before-told stories of the girl in 'the raspberry beret,' 'Chicky Baby' in Pee Wee's playhouse, and a songwriter who inspired American culture for decades."

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