Rickie Lee Jones
on KAOS
From ANDRAS JONES:
Something funny? The house I stay at when I’m in LA has a new dog. Her name is Rickie Lee.
On September 2, 1999 Radio8Ball was only about a year old. We were a late night call in show on KAOS in Olympia broadcasting in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. I was working for Rickie Lee Jones (who is from Olympia kinda). My gig was to go through boxes of old tapes and digitize them for release on her new website with the folks at Great Big Island. A dream job for a Rickie Lee Jones fan. I was also getting to hang out and sing and talk music and build goat hutches with her and feeling like the luckiest musician in Olympia. Maybe the world. Anyway, I was all excited about Radio8Ball and asked her if she’d like to try it out with me on KAOS. It didn’t make sense to have her on at 1am on a Wednesday/Thursday so I asked DJ Michelle Peterson, who had a day time slot, if I could sub for her with Rickie and she graciously said yes. Thus it was that Rickie sauntered into the KAOS studios that September afternoon for a truly unique Pop Oracle session. We didn’t really have our format down yet but I find that rather charming now.
This Radio8Vault episode features several musical divinations, mostly using Cat Stevens’ “Tea For The Tillerman” CD, but it also features a song from Bart Davenport‘s old band The Kinetics and a classic Rickie Lee Jones track. The theme song is performed by Inara George from her recent appearance on the show. Since Inara’s father, Lowell, was one of the first stars to give Rickie a break, covering her song “Easy Money” on his “Thanks I’ll Eat It Here” album I figured she’d be an appropriate opener for this time traveling episode taking us back before Trump,
before 2012,
before 911,
before Y2K.
before WTO.
I love you Rickie Lee. Always will.
