In 1980 I drove my 1959 MGA from Miami to California. I had a Tom Waits tape, Joni Mitchel, and this Ricky Lee Jones got me through being broken down in the desert salt flats at 1:00am
I bought her debut album when I was 16, in 1979, played it for years, and dreamed away in her beautiful lonely sad world...I didnt know anybody who liked her music, I was lonely too as teenager...and now I found this live version of last chance Texaco, and realize she was live even better than on recording, so intense, straight to my soul...her music kept me alive.
Great comment. I was a few years older at the time, and I too spent hours listening to this masterwork. Still one of my favorites to this day. And today is the first time I remember ever seeing her perform live. Very powerful stuff.
@Mike Bailey I agree with your response to Sydney Prescott about the best of music. I was blessed to have parents that loved music and allowed us kids to spend money on music. My collection of albums have been a calming presence throughout my life. A friend of mine said she thought music was my first language.
She gets lost In a song In front of thousands of people and expresses Her innermost feelings and does It differently every time. Last chance Texaco Is the story of a woman expressing Her heartfelt dripping emotion over a lost love...Incredible and hauntingly beautiful....
One of our greatest performers. I hold out hope that, before too long, people will recognize this. And "performer" is the word. Yup, she writes great songs. but she performs her original songs as well as the works of others remarkably.
Grateful to see this performance of Last Chance Texaco. Rickie is one of my all time favorites and I always go back to her albums especially Rickie Lee Jones, Pirates, and The Magazine. They are pure masterpieces. I have heard many of these songs well over a hundred times and never get enough.
Stumbled upon this again and realized how absolutely breathtaking Rickie Lee Jones was .....and IS. So many of her songs, and especially her performances, just bring me to my knees.
Ya gotta love that Doppler-effect car-passing-by sound-effect she wrote into the end. It totally adds to the loneliness of the broken down car on the highway analogy.
Perfectly said Benjamin Schofield, "when she's this fucking good with all the feedback and crap monitoring in front of 300,000 she kills it, whatever she's wearing!"
What I really love about Rickie here is how absolutely confident and self-assured she is, on top of her game and seems to be totally loving it. It's just out of this world xx
Been on this planet for a bit (69 years) and remember well the first night I spent with this album in an apartment in Silver Springs, MD. Must say, as far as I am concerned, one of the best songs, lyrics, I have ever heard to date.
queen sang her ass off!! I'm especially loving her register switch at 2:50 wowowowow and then at 3:07 she kills that note! prime example of an artist using their voice as an instrument, with excellent technique to boot ✨
I love putting this song on my stereo, getting out my bass and playing along. Been doing so for decades. I have never played this song with any of the bands I've played with. Doesn't matter. I just love the dynamics and melody. Rickie's singing on this recording is touching. I feel the same about Johnette Napolitano on Caroline. Never played that song other than to the recording either. Many of my favourite songs have not been hits.
+Nial Cradog Pefectly stated Nial, man I have always loved Ricki but kind of let her get lost in the shuffle of all the music I listen to. Time to revisit her, this is just incredible, and yes, that is understatement.
Never be another like Miss Rickey Lee. I had the opportunity to see her in Denver late 70s. My prayers and blessing to her. Rickie Lee is on s level by herself.
oh my god Rickie, I grew up with my sisters performing your stuff 30 years ago. Although I have wonderful memories of your music from all those years ago this is the first time I have seen you sing. Wow, this explains why I sat for hours back in the 80's helping my sisters perform your songs. It is now 2017 and I hope my 12 year old daughter can connect. I'll try, I promise.
I'm seeing her in Brooklyn for the first time and I hope she plays this song! I used to listen to her first album on cassette over and over again and this was my favorite!
AHHHHHHHHHHHH I love you Rickie Lee and this song is awesome. Thank you for supporting Farm Aid with the king Mr. Willie Nelson! :) You don't know the miles I've traveled and money I've spent to see you play and sing. You're my best soul artisit and I just can't quit you. :)
I saw her a few years ago in Fall River, Ma. When I heard the opening of this I let out a yelp that scared. her. It almost brings tears to my eyes when I hear it. She's a great, quirky, unique and unpredictable performer. It seemed like there was no set list. She played what she felt like it as the show went along even when she had other musicians with her she would call out the next one. Loved it.
This broad nails me to the wall every time. WHENEVER I hear this song, the artistic presentation makes me well up inside. Thanks for posting this fantastic vid.
Raw American talent. Love these tunes with Dylan, Mitchell and Armatrading getting left behind with her perfection on this album. Love her voice with a touch of Carol Brunett and other legendary singers mixed in to create this Genuis.
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In 1980 I drove my 1959 MGA from Miami to California. I had a Tom Waits tape, Joni Mitchel,
and this Ricky Lee Jones got me through being broken down in the desert salt flats at 1:00am
Incredible. One person with a song, a voice and a guitar creates an earthquake in the soul.
Her vocalization of a car whizzing by on a lonely desert highway may be the finest ending to any song ever written.
I bought her debut album when I was 16, in 1979, played it for years, and dreamed away in her beautiful lonely sad world...I didnt know anybody who liked her music, I was lonely too as teenager...and now I found this live version of last chance Texaco, and realize she was live even better than on recording, so intense, straight to my soul...her music kept me alive.
Great comment. I was a few years older at the time, and I too spent hours listening to this masterwork. Still one of my favorites to this day. And today is the first time I remember ever seeing her perform live. Very powerful stuff.
I was born in 79😁
@Mike Bailey Spent many an hour daydreaming to her music. That year brought many changes to my life...
@Mike Bailey I agree with your response to Sydney Prescott about the best of music. I was blessed to have parents that loved music and allowed us kids to spend money on music. My collection of albums have been a calming presence throughout my life. A friend of mine said she thought music was my first language.
I am older than you my Husband was killed in a car accident in 78 I bought Ricki’s album in 79 also I fell in love with it
She gets lost In a song In front of thousands of people and expresses Her innermost feelings and does It differently every time. Last chance Texaco Is the story of a woman expressing Her heartfelt dripping emotion over a lost love...Incredible and hauntingly beautiful....
She definitely did, u can see her face reliving where she was at that particular moment or particular months
Always a fav. Seen here only twice and you've hit the nail on the head!
It's about a woman who is getting old and lonely and desperate. It's about a man in a similar predicament. Last chance Texaco for both of them.
I have reached this place in my life.
Tell me about it.
was here this day, one of the biggest surprises!
One of our greatest performers. I hold out hope that, before too long, people will recognize this. And "performer" is the word. Yup, she writes great songs. but she performs her original songs as well as the works of others remarkably.
Gotta be the best mix of car and romance metaphors.
Beautiful imagery. Relistening to her music is like going to a museum over and over, just to see "that" painting one more time.
Beautiful comment.
Extraordinary. One of the best songs ever written, and her performance here is on another level.
Grateful to see this performance of Last Chance Texaco. Rickie is one of my all time favorites and I always go back to her albums especially Rickie Lee Jones, Pirates, and The Magazine. They are pure masterpieces. I have heard many of these songs well over a hundred times and never get enough.
Such great singer! This song is one of my favorites of many of her songs!! Thank you!
finest chick ever with the finest song,,,thanks rickie . your eternal poetic spirit always lifts me to places i cant go by myself
Stumbled upon this again and realized how absolutely breathtaking Rickie Lee Jones was
.....and IS. So many of her songs, and especially her performances, just bring me to my knees.
So true
Ya gotta love that Doppler-effect car-passing-by sound-effect she wrote into the end. It totally adds to the loneliness of the broken down car on the highway analogy.
Perfectly said Benjamin Schofield, "when she's this fucking good with all the feedback and crap monitoring in front of 300,000 she kills it, whatever she's wearing!"
What I really love about Rickie here is how absolutely confident and self-assured she is, on top of her game and seems to be totally loving it. It's just out of this world xx
Been on this planet for a bit (69 years) and remember well the first night I spent with this album in an apartment in Silver Springs, MD.
Must say, as far as I am concerned, one of the best songs, lyrics, I have ever heard to date.
Such an emotional performer. This is the only time I've seen her with short hair and it looks great on her.
queen sang her ass off!! I'm especially loving her register switch at 2:50 wowowowow and then at 3:07 she kills that note! prime example of an artist using their voice as an instrument, with excellent technique to boot ✨
Man, I enjoyed that. Takes me back to beautiful times. Thanks Rickey.
One of my top 10 favourite songs of all time
I love putting this song on my stereo, getting out my bass and playing along. Been doing so for decades. I have never played this song with any of the bands I've played with. Doesn't matter. I just love the dynamics and melody. Rickie's singing on this recording is touching. I feel the same about Johnette Napolitano on Caroline. Never played that song other than to the recording either. Many of my favourite songs have not been hits.
From the first time I heard "The Last Chance Tecaco" by Rickie Lee Jones I found myself so emotional it brought me to tears.
57 yr old divorced white male. What an amazing voice she has. Angelic! Beautiful!!!
I've thought of many compliments for this performance and realised they were all understatement.
+Nial Cradog Pefectly stated Nial, man I have always loved Ricki but kind of let her get lost in the shuffle of all the music I listen to. Time to revisit her, this is just incredible, and yes, that is understatement.
+Anthony Salvati Same here, Anthony.
Never be another like Miss Rickey Lee. I had the opportunity to see her in Denver late 70s. My prayers and blessing to her. Rickie Lee is on s level by herself.
oh my god Rickie, I grew up with my sisters performing your stuff 30 years ago. Although I have wonderful memories of your music from all those years ago this is the first time I have seen you sing. Wow, this explains why I sat for hours back in the 80's helping my sisters perform your songs. It is now 2017 and I hope my 12 year old daughter can connect. I'll try, I promise.
This song says it all for me. Has for decades. I hear what she has to say and I feel it. You have to be hurt to know this song.
The emotion in her songs is powerful. I tried to do 'Skeletons' at a coffeehouse gig once and I choked up at the verse about being shot. :(
so fabulous! I've had it on a Farm Aid cassette forever but this sounds way better. And those Texaco earrings!
I wish I had seen her in concert
After all these years ....still her courage touches me to be that vulnerable on stage and sober. Love.
I got her first album in 1979 - boy do i feel old. A unique talent.
The most honest soul I have ever held hands with.. once we were young and invinceable
Still get goosebumps every. single time. I listen to this, from its original vinyl release till now (7.22).
Just brilliant; so good it's otherworldly. I love seeing Rickie's eyes up close. She is loving every minute.
God I love her ! July 2022 and her voice and music still blows me away ! ❤️
I'm seeing her in Brooklyn for the first time and I hope she plays this song! I used to listen to her first album on cassette over and over again and this was my favorite!
Such a gifted singer. her voice makes me melt
AHHHHHHHHHHHH I love you Rickie Lee and this song is awesome. Thank you for supporting Farm Aid with the king Mr. Willie Nelson! :) You don't know the miles I've traveled and money I've spent to see you play and sing. You're my best soul artisit and I just can't quit you. :)
Her Voice and her Lyrics are Fabulous 🙏❤️🙏
1979... a very good year. Many memories.
My God, this brought tears to my eyes. How amazing.
I have returned to this video many many times, because it is so efffing great !! Thank you Ms. Jones.
I saw her a few years ago in Fall River, Ma. When I heard the opening of this I let out a yelp that scared. her. It almost brings tears to my eyes when I hear it. She's a great, quirky, unique and unpredictable performer. It seemed like there was no set list. She played what she felt like it as the show went along even when she had other musicians with her she would call out the next one. Loved it.
Clearly a great song by a wonderful singer/songwriter.
This broad nails me to the wall every time. WHENEVER I hear this song, the artistic presentation makes me well up inside. Thanks for posting this fantastic vid.
Just watched it again, same thing. The Queen of Cool. Gets me every time.
gotta say baby girl...i just love you ms. Jones...plus having such a voice that cuts to the heart is just icing on the cake
I just love the way she takes you there ... the consumate artist
Oh my: such a beautiful song and stunning performance.
The lyrics of this song are pure genius, IMHO. I'm loving this live version...
So willing and enthusiastic; embracing the 'bringing it.' Hat's off to THE Ricki Lee Jones!
Raw American talent. Love these tunes with Dylan, Mitchell and Armatrading getting left behind with her perfection on this album. Love her voice with a touch of Carol Brunett and other legendary singers mixed in to create this Genuis.
so not only is the song and performance extradionary.... her truth shines.... so real.
My Goodness She's Awesome ❤️
What an awesome day. Was front and center.
Ahhhh... Rickie Lee, thank you for everything. You are truly a great one.
I've always loved Her music and would love to see more clips like this one. Thank you
Love you so much Ricki....this is my song now after all these years
marvelously talented. needs more views & world recognition.
her poetry is filled with so much original imagery sometimes I think am seeing more than listening
Breathtaking as always!
Beautiful as always...Thanks RLJ
First time I heard her I know she had so to say . Debut album is so good
when she's good she fucking kills it,whatever she's wearing!
Beautiful
Wow this was my first album at 14 ..life so simple so different breathtaking album...i still have it.............
One of my favorite songs of all time.
I absolutely love rickie lee jones
Great composer, rich harmonisation, and great performer. One of my favourites from Ricky Lee.
She even has Texaco star earrings. A haunting song, and she's having fun singing it.
Bloody 80's. Love you Ms. Jones.
Brilliant. She's really amazing.
Everything about this is brilliant love you x
I repeat, magnificent, beautiful, outstanding xx
wow - what a baddass performance by Rickie Lee!!!!!
Brought tears to my eyes, 2021.
Elle est incroyable. Mon coeur se serre en l'écoutant.
What a talent! Wow.
superb emotion. I spent £1000 on a hifi system after hearing this in the store! (1977 my first apartment, didnt have any furniture ;)
This song is a masterpiece.
Truly soulful . . . . my favorite rickie lee song
Fabulous!
I listen to this weekly, it's just outstandingly beautiful from one of our greatest poets. Simply magnificent x
what a writer. word.
That voice.
Such an imaginative writer & performer…
Rickie IS the music for ever !❤
Absolutely magnificent x
Holy Mother of God....Brilliance is right! How beautiful she is...what a jewel***
Rickie Lee Jones=microphone=people's ears!
I love you, Rickie Lee. This song is your best.
God Bless Rickie Lee ,,,,shes seen it all,,,,,,
wonderful what more needs to be said...
RLJ, my favorite artist of all my years...
Completely Wonderful ❤️❤️❤️
Amazing!
Fantastic - just fantastic
Beautiful song 💖🎶🎵🎸😍