Episode 1228 - Rickie Lee Jones

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Rickie Lee Jones is, first and foremost, a storyteller. She realized at a young age that she could process her feelings and tell her own story through the fiction of songs. As she tells Marc, that same impulse prompted her to write a memoir in which she could present her life story through the narrative of her extended family of vaudevillians. Rickie Lee and Marc also talk about her formative and tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits and why it's hard for her to reminisce about her early albums and the hits that made her a star.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.0	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck nicks, what the fuck
0:14.6	adelix, what the fuck in ears, what's happening?
0:18.7	I'm Mark Maren, this is my podcast, WTF, that okay with you.
0:22.6	Ricky Lee Jones is on the show.
0:25.3	She's a singer, a songwriter, musician, an artist who has been added for over five
0:29.8	decades.
0:32.0	I remember when that first Ricky Lee Jones album came out and it was like, what is this?
0:37.2	So cool.
0:38.4	I remember watching her on Saturday Night Live, so fucking cool.
0:42.7	She was so good.
0:45.4	It's weird because she came up recently in the conversation with Katie Segal and she
0:50.0	also has a memoir out, a new one called Last Chance Texaco, so it seemed like a good time
0:55.5	to talk to her.
0:56.5	It was all heading that direction.
0:58.6	She was in New Orleans when I talked to her.
1:02.2	But man, she was a trip.
1:04.7	I remember those records, man.
1:06.1	I remember when she just was like, what is this, where did she come from, what year,
1:10.4	what generation, what galaxy, how is this okay, because it was in the middle of a lot
1:15.1	of other things going on that weren't that.
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