mark,
thank you for writing so beautifully, as you so often do, about music. i
would have loved this post no matter who you were praising. but i do love
it even more, that it's rickie lee.
pirates and the magazine (and her first, rlj, which you have) are her best 3
albums. i think most of her fans would agree. so you've got some great
listening ahead of you, just getting those... i think the tape i made for
you includes a couple of songs from 'magazine', including 'the real end'. a
very musically upbeat song about fucking up a love affair, with great
trumpets at the end; it's really one of my all-time favorite songs from her.
you gave such a great song-by-song description. last chance texaco is
unusual, more metaphoric than usual for her. i remember a 'rock lyrics'
book from the '80s that included 'last chance' among its masterpieces.
it sounds like it was a sweet concert, in the best sense. i loved the
background material on 'the moon is made of gold'. rickie lee has actually
done a version of that song, on a truly excellent rob wasserman album called
'duets'. she's the only one who gets two duets, the other one is a
fantastic version of 'autumn leaves'.
i was actually at a fantastic outdoor concert this eve, as well. radiohead,
at liberty state park. a nice ferry ride from manhattan, a lovely eastern
seaboard evening and a band that is inventing something truly new and
interesting. fantastic!
patrick
np - rlj - gravity, from 'the magazine'
