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Rickie
Lee Jones
Mojo Review March 2007
THE SERMON on EXPOSITION BOULEVARD
With Jesus' help, Rickie Lee Jones walks on water...
What if Lou Reed and Moe Tucker joined forces with the Danielson Family? Ms. Jones, a 70's-era spellbinder,
knows the potential: Sermon on Exposition Boulevard - which veers from punk rock minimalism to ethereal
whispery rock - marries pop music and Christianity in ways that Jesus Christ Superstar actors could only dream
of. Cut in an LA painter's loft and at Sunset Sound Studios, with apostles like author/musician Lee Cantelon,
Joey Waronker and Rob Schnapf helping to guide the way, Jones neither preaches nor proselytizes, but
instead witnesses through Jesus' eyes, her ever-evolving faith. At times primordial (Gethsemane, Donkey Ride),
hallucinatory (Elvis Cadillac, I Was There), and sweetly self-examining (It Hurts), her tunes are as joyful as a
dog's yelp and as sorrowful, yes, as a crucifixion.
"On the corner/ We see him coming," she croons on Falling Up, as if sending a warning flare to the
non-believers.
- - Mojo Magazine page 102
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