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<p class="p1"><b>&#8220;Book of the Year.&#8221; &#8212; MOJO Magazine</b></p><p class="p1"><b><span>&#34;Outstanding Book of the Year.&#8221; &#8212;<i>The Herald</i>&#160;(Glasgow)</span><br></b></p><p class="p2"><b>A Best Book of the Year by NPR, <i>Pitchfork, The Telegraph</i>, and <i>Uncut</i></b></p><p><strong>A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning &#8220;premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation&#8221; (Hilton Als), Rickie Lee Jones.</strong></p>&#10;<p><em>This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.</em></p>&#10;<p><em>Last Chance Texaco</em> is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music.</p>&#10;<p>With candor and lyricism, the &#8220;Duchess of Coolsville&#8221; (<em>Time</em>) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee&#8217;s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs &#8211; &#34;Chuck-E's in Love,&#34; &#8220;Weasel and the White Boys Cool,&#8221; &#8220;Danny&#8217;s All-Star Joint,&#8221; and &#8220;Easy Money&#8221;&#8212; but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, a pimp with a heart of gold and tales of her fabled ancestors.</p>&#10;<p>In this tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music are 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.</p>

<p><strong>RICKIE LEE JONES</strong> has released seventeen record albums and received two Grammy Awards. She lives in New Orleans.</p>