Join legendary singer, songwriter Rickie Lee Jones live to celebrate the release of her memoir Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour.
“This tender, fierce, intimate memoir is testament that Jones has lived a life as brave… and rich as her music – with love, heartbreak, addiction, and magic, sprinkled throughout.”
“Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart… but Jones knows a good story and how to tell it.”
Join two-time Grammy Award-winner Ricke Lee Jones live and discover Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour, the first ever no-holds-barred account of her life in her own words—a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs.
Last Chance Texaco is the first ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music.
With candor and lyricism, the “Duchess of Coolsville” (Time) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs — “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money” — but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, a pimp with a heart of gold and tales of her fabled ancestors.
In this electrifying and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music are never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret —a singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades.
