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The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard (CD)

By: Rickie Lee Jones (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard (CD) Album By Rickie Lee Jones (Artist)
1   Nobody Knows My Name
2   Gethsemane
3   Falling Up
4   Lamp Of The Body
5   It Hurts
6   Where I Like It Best
7   Tried To Be A Man
8   Circle In The Sand
9   Donkey Ride
10   7th Day
11   Elvis Cadillac
12   Road To Emmaus
13   I Was There
 

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Entertainment Weekly (p.p.75) - "[E]nriched by roadhouse rhythms and her distinctive whiskey-soaked voice....It's still vintage Rickie..." -- Grade: B
Q (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he eight-minute 'I Was There' showcases her still extraordinary space-pixie vocal chops. Boldly different."
Uncut (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "SERMON's musical crudeness gives it a powerful immediacy. Strangely accessible and highly addictive, it's her best work in three decades."
No Depression (p.119) - "Jones' new songs are quite literally private prayers. It takes the coalescence of her still astonishingly expressive voice and a sympathetic, locked-tight band to transform those confessions."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "At times primordial, hallucinatory and sweetly self-examining..."

Title Note

Personnel: Rickie Lee Jones (vocals, guitar, dulcimer, electric piano, Wurlitzer organ, keyboard, keyboards, Moog synthesizer, xylophone, electric bass, bass guitar, finger cymbals, tambourine, percussion); Bernie Larsen (guitars, gut-string guitar, synthesizer, drum); Peter Atanasoff (guitars, oud, background vocals); Jonathon Stearns (trumpet); Joey Maramba (electric bass, bass guitar); Joey Waronker, Jay Bellerose (drums); Lee Cantelon, Rob Schnapf (background vocals).

After several albums of jazz and pop songbook standards, neo-beatnik hipster songstress Rickie Lee Jones released THE SERMON ON EXPOSITION BOULEVARD, one of the most inspired and well-crafted albums of her career. Reportedly based on the gospels of Christ, this album shouldn't be mistaken for Jones's born-again coming-out party. While the biblical references are numerous and not always subtle ("Donkey Ride"), the lyrical abstractions position the album as more about finding a peaceful self than about finding Jesus.

Musically, the album is varied yet cohesive. The listener is reminded of Jones's long-standing relationship with Tom Waits on the gritty "Tried to Be a Man," replete with a Waits-inspired raspy vocal. The most obvious reference point here, however, is the late-1990s and early-'00s albums of Lucinda Williams. This is "adult" music with a "contemporary," slightly "alternative" studio sheen, but it's far too impassioned on the one hand ("Lamp of the Body") and righteously swinging on the other ("Circle in the Sand"), to ever warrant a tag as bland and limiting as one encompassing those dreaded terms.

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