It's Like This Explained
It's Like This |
Type: | Cover |
Artist: | Rickie Lee Jones |
Cover: | RickieLeeJones_ItsLikeThis.jpg |
Released: | September 12, 2000 |
Genre: | Pop, rock |
Label: | Artemis |
Producer: | Rickie Lee Jones, Bruce Brody[1] |
Prev Title: | Ghostyhead |
Prev Year: | 1997 |
Next Title: | Live at Red Rocks |
Next Year: | 2001 |
It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in 2000.[2] [3] Like her 1991 album Pop Pop, it is a covers record.[4] [5] The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award.[6]
Critical reception
The Washington Post wrote that "the album's most successful track is Jones's sinewy reading of Steely Dan's edgy missive, 'Show Biz Kids', [which] kicks off with just terse triangle and Richard Davis's snaky bass, with Jones tapping into the caustic detachment and cool cynicism the song's writers always intended."[4]
Track listing
- "Show Biz Kids" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 4:35
- "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 5:12
- "For No One" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:32
- "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 1:49
- "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 5:13
- "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:26
- "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:30
- "Up a Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:50
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:03
- "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell) – 3:16
- "One Hand, One Heart" (Leonard Bernstein) – 1:58
Personnel
- Technical
- Ben Sidran – co-producer (tracks: 1, 6–8, 10)
- Barry Goldberg, James Farber, Larry Alexander, Rob Smith – engineer
- Lee Cantelon – art direction, photography
Chart positions
Year | Chart | Position |
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2000 | Billboard 200 | 148[7] |
2000 | Top Internet albums | 10 |
2001 | Top Independent albums | 42 |
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External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Reviews & Previews. Billboard. October 7, 2000. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
- Web site: Rickie Lee Jones | Biography & History. AllMusic.
- Web site: A conversation with Rickie Lee Jones. October 16, 2000. Salon.
- Web site: RICKIE LEE JONES "It's Like This" Artemis . The Washington Post . 1 April 2021.
- Web site: Talking with Rickie Lee Jones. The New Yorker.
- Web site: Entertainment – 43rd Grammy Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20081106040823/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/21/grammy.winners/. CNN. 2001-02-21. 2008-11-06.
- Web site: Rickie Lee Jones. Billboard.