Sermon on Exposition BoulevardWhen Jones started out, she was known for wearing battered stiletto heels and a beret and (sometimes) a spandex bodysuit. With a guitar slung over her shoulder, her slurred pronunciation of certain distinctive phrases, such as "livin'it up," part of her distinctive singing syntax, Jones was like no one anyone had ever seen before; a funky runaway who had managed to keep her innocence even as she lived, as she put it, "on the jazz side of life."

- HILTON ALS, The New Yorker Magazine

                                                                                                                                            photograph: Rickie Lee Jones by Lee Cantelon

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Rickie Lee Jones - Sermon On Exposition Boulevard
The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard


Read the Mojo review


Read the Uncut review

The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard is being hailed as "her best album in three decades (by Uncut Magazine)."  Purchase now from this website

Read the lyrics from The Sermon on Exposition Blvd.

Best Reviewed Album of 2007!...borders.com
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Check out the new video on YouTube.

An interview with Rickie is featured in Bluerailroad Magazine

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RICKIE ON DAVID LETTERMAN
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Read Lee Cantelon's story of how The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard came to be, now on the Pennyhead site.


Rickie relaxing in the comfy surrounding of the Pinlight studios,
during a late-night improv session, January 2007



 Rickie performing on the Tavis Smiley Show (PBS) January 31, 2007
with Theo Little, background vocals, and Peter Atanasoff, guitar.


Rickie performing on SOUNDSTAGE (PBS Chicago)
(begins airing on Feb. 22nd on all PBS affiliates)


Warren (Papa) Holden looks on while Rickie records in the
Pinlight studios in Hollywood, January 2007.

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If you weren’t lucky enough to catch one of Rickie’s amazing residency shows in Los Angeles or San Francisco in January, February or March then check out the stellar reviews below. Each show was special and unique, using different band line-ups each night, and performing songs spanning her entire career! If you attended one or more of the shows and took some cool pictures then please post them to Rickie’s myspace everyone to see!!!
 
LA Times Review of 1st LA Residency Show

Variety Review of 2nd Residency Show
 
LA Times Blog about LA Residency Shows
 
San Francisco Chronicle Review of 1st San Fran Residency Show
 
Residency Dates
San Francisco – January 14, 21, 29 and February 5
Los Angeles – February 4, 11, 18, 25 and March 3

Roadburn 2008

Rickie will be performing at the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland on April 20.
more info


Rickie in her new Smart Car




"Spoken-poetry and Waits-y blues moments are just a small part of a wide variety that includes acoustic folk and raw rock, recalling Patti Smith and the Velvet Underground. (The Sermon on Exposition Blvd. is) mature, inspired, confident." -- Sylvie Simmons; San Francisco Chronicle

"An opus that's equal parts earthy and dour, soul-searching and uplifting." -- Patrick Donnelly


"The album is among Jones's most deeply personal and emotionally intense..the most affecting passages come from her singular voice. From ethereal and fragile to stentorian and tough, it conveys feelings in words and phrases and sometimes just sounds, as though actual words have failed. Although the songs in part channel the words of Christ, they're also naturally entwined with her own perceptions and emotions, so the collection never feels preachy but more like a quest." -- Natalie Nichols, LA City Beat
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New review: Uncut magazine March 2007 (4 stars)
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German jazz review Jazzthetik
cover of German Jazz magazine (Jazzthetik)

The Words
Lee Cantelon's book, The Words, is now available from Credo Press. Click here, or on the book cover graphic, to learn more. Be sure to read Thom Jurek's preface to the book that was the inspiration behind The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard.



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