Pieces Of Treasure
BMG MODERN
Rickie Lee Jones's voice is smooth, expressive and shot through with experience and emotion, able (the first single from 'Pieces of Treasure'), September Song (the second single), with fresh layers of meaning, with just a walking bass, sparse piano and vibraphone for back-up. It sounds wonderfully effortless and natural, in a way that Chet Baker or Frank Sinatra once did — and it probably is. After all, you can't fake this. “The Duchess of Coolsville”, brags the cover of her fifteenth studio album (which was produced by Russ Titelman, who also produced Jones' first two albums), and quite frankly it is a reasonable boast. On a slowed-down On Jones sounds playful and worldly-wise and young beyond her years, like she’s living every moment of the song the way only the truly great or truly naive singers can. As she writes in the sleeve notes: “I am younger now than I was last winter.” Magical.
