Last Chance Texaco

"In 1979, Rickie Lee Jones released her self-titled debut album and set a new standard for rock ’n’ roll infused with classic bohemian cool. This memoir shows how that happened: how a kid with vaudeville, big dreams and tragedies in her family line went on the road as a countercultural teenager and ended up in LA amid a cast of characters who virtually begged to be immortalized in song. They’re all here in their scarves and leather jackets, including Tom Waits, her lover and partner in troubadourism. Both fans and those who only know Jones from her 1980s radio breakthroughs will find much in this story of a young woman finding her feet in a world full of both possibility and roadblocks."

"I am reading Rickie Lee Jones's "Last Chance Texaco" right now, for example, and really enjoying it."