A SHERO's Journey: Rickie Lee Jones

This week, we bring you a very special edition of the show,
featuring a SHERO of SHEROES. Also known as the Duchess of
Coolsville, she is an unparalleled, Grammy-winning singer,
songwriter, musician, interpreter of songs, and author. She is the
one and only Rickie Lee Jones, and she’s just put out her 15th
studio album, Pieces of Treasure. The album is her first devoted
entirely to the Great American Songbook, and while this seven-time
Grammy nominated artist has always woven jazz and pop sounds and
covers into her work, one could say this album is nearly a lifetime
in the making. Several of the songs on Pieces of Treasure harken
back to Rickie Lee Jones’ childhood and songs she learned from her
father. It also sees Rickie reuniting with producer Russ Titelman
who co-produced her 1979 landmark platinum-selling self-titled
debut, which garnered Rickie her first four Grammy nominations and
first win as Best New Artist in 1980, and her 1981 critically
hailed follow up, Pirates, which went gold, and ranked 49th on
NPR's 2017 list of the 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women. Pieces of
Treasure captures this full circle moment, encompassing four
decades of friendship, the culmination of Rickie Lee Jones’
trailblazing career thus far, and is the perfect follow up to her
acclaimed 2021 memoir, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of An
American Troubadour. Just like life, the album holds both humor and
deep emotion, and a sense of ever present love of all kinds. There
can be no doubt that Rickie Lee Jones is an icon, and her voice and
her timing is as astonishing as ever. And as you’ll hear in this
interview, recorded back in April just days before Pieces of
Treasure was released, she is still paving the way for us all.