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from my library (vinyl)



You just don't hear that many debuts like this one. Blew everyone away. A little personal story. Was doing my short
lived stint at managing a record store at the time this came out. When Chuck E hit the airwaves we could not keep
it in stock. Each week I would double the previous weeks order, only to sell it out within a day or so. When supply
finally caught up with demand, the finicky buyers had moved on to the next big thing. Could have sold three or four
times what we did if we could only look ahead. Don't think Rickie ever equaled this classic. I gave her several
chances. Chuck E was a #4 hit here, with the album hitting #3. Her L.A. street characters came to life in her self
penned songs that were delivered with some real swagger. That was assisted by her romantic involvement with Mr.
Cool himself, Tom Waits. Surprised they never did anything together, or did they? That would have been some awesome
material for me. Thought clips would be there for all these, but only 5.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Weasel And The White Boys Cool

Best Track - Danny's All-Star Joint

Downstairs at danny's all-star joint
They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, they stay in the back all day
But when the nighttime comes, hey-hey
There's this cat down there that makes a bad kinda soup
I come around struttin' my luck in my shoop coupe
Cecil gives me coffee
And he won't never take my coin
I say, " I got thirty dollars in my pocket!
Whatchoo doin' ? "

I holler, " Come on, Cecil, take a dollar!
Come on, Cecil, take a ten!
I've finally geared up into a whole buncha big ones
And you're actin' like I'm down-shiftin' "

He knows all the under-riders on the boulevard
They got to barefoot cruise when it's forty-weight hard
They look particularly dead-beat
Permanently pale
Cecil picks up his butcher knife
Waves it at the jail
The kid say, " I ain't got no dough, Joe, I just want some o.j "
I said, " Don't look at me " ( Cuz he was lookin' my way )
Cecil wink upon him some juice and some green
And the kid walks over and puts the quarter in the pinball machine
And he says, " Come on, Cec, gimme a dollar
Come on Cecil gimme five
I'm in a half-way house on a one-way street
And I'm a quarter past left alive "
He can talk about your people in a wonderful way
He can talk about your people 'til your hair turns grey

1) Chuck E.'s In Love ***
video - nailed it! nailed it----Chuck E's In Love-----Rickie Lee Jones - YouTube
2) On Saturday Afternoons In 1963 ***
audio - Rickie Lee Jones-1979-02-On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 - YouTube
3) Night Train **
4) Young Blood **
5) Easy Money ***
6) The Last Chance Texaco ***
live - Last Chance Texaco LIVE PARIS - Rickie Lee Jones - YouTube
7) Danny's All-Star Joint ***
audio - Rickie Lee Jones - Danny's All Star Joint - YouTube
8) Coolsville **
audio - Rickie Lee Jones - Coolsville (1978) - YouTube
9) Weasel And The White Boys Cool **
10) Company **
11) After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight) **

3's - 5
2's - 6
1's - 0

Grade - 2.5

so many albums, so little time