The only way to really learn about what makes an artist like Rickie Lee Jones tick is to hear it from her. Thank goodness she is willing to tell us, in the form of a memoir, Last Chance Texaco: ...

It's an unfiltered look filled with never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades.

Rickie Lee Jones cuts right to the chase on the first page of the introduction to “Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour,” her well-crafted and intensely candid new memoir. Its ...

Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones says she decided to write her life story for one simple reason. The material was just so good. “I know I have great stories to tell,” she says recently by phone from ...

Memoirs and biopics about famous musicians follow a common arc. It all starts with a quick summation of the artist’s humble beginnings. Then there’s the nostalgic depiction of their ascent to stardom ...

Read Me is a new SPIN interview feature devoted to books by and about our favorites artists. She can’t help it: Rickie Lee Jones creates poetry wherever she goes. Her memoir, Last Chance Texaco: ...

It’s common for musicians to feel that their work lets listeners into their minds, their souls, or their hearts. It’s less common that fans are invited into their actual homes. But that’s what many ...

ISLAND PARK, Idaho — The gas pumps are flowing, the grill is sizzling and the shelves are stocked like a true general store at Last Chance Texaco and General Store. First opened in 1962, the iconic ...

Rickie Lee Jones with Bob Dylan at the Grammy after-party at Chasen’s in Beverly Hills, 1980. (Ron Galella Collection) Review by Jake Cline “This is an amazing and impossible story of magic and ...