Rickie Lee Jones
The Devil You Know
Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
Genre(s): Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Pop/Rock
Record label: Concord
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Album Review: The Devil You Know by Rickie Lee Jones
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Rickie Lee Jones' The Devil You Know is a collection of classic rock cover songs that follows the intimate -- and excellent -- Balm in Gilead. Jones has performed covers since she began singing in dive bars in Los Angeles in the 1970s. They've made steady appearances in her recording career: Girl at Her Volcano (1983), Pop Pop in 1991, and It’s Like This (2000).
Based on rating 6/10
To Rickie Lee Jones’ most devoted fans – and I am clearly among them – she has been on a real roll lately. Stunning records like Balm in Gilead and The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard are some of her most interesting, knotty works, returning her to her avant-garde tendencies in ways that also sound just as organic as her beatnik jazz early days. So it was a little surprising that she was coming out with another covers album.
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