2000 studio album by Rickie Lee Jones
It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones , released in 2000.[ 7] [ 8] Like her 1991 album Pop Pop , it is a covers record.[ 9] [ 10] The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award .[ 11]
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."[ 9]
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
2000
Billboard 200
148[ 12]
2000
Top Internet albums
10
2001
Top Independent albums
42
References
External links
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