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The Evening Of My Best Day

~ Rickie Lee Jones
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  • Audio CD (1 Jul 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B0000C4M71
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,902 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Ugly Man
2. A Second Chance
3. Bitchenostrophy
4. Little Mysteries
5. Lap Dog
6. Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Acts Now)
7. Sailor Song
8. A Tree On Allenford
9. It Takes You There
10. Mink Coat At The Bus Stop
11. The Evening of My Best Day
12. A Face In The Crowd

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This was set to be an important album for Rickie Lee Jones from the get-go. She had released only two albums of original material in the 1990s, with a six-year gap between the last one and EVENING OF MY BEST DAY. Also, this was her first album for V2 after a live album and a covers disc on Artemis.Fans may rest easy in the knowledge that Jones didn't drop the ball at this crucial juncture; in fact, she runs with itand spikes it in the end zone.
This is a solid set of songs with imaginatively affecting arrangements, showcasing Jones's freewheeling style in its best light. The minor-key folkish ballad "Sailor Song" rubs shoulders with the gospel-flavoured protest song "Tell Somebody", whose parenthetical title "Repeal the Patriot Act" leaves little room for ambiguity. The chamber-music art song "A Tree on Allenford" shares space with the bluesy stomp of "Mink Coat at the Bus Stop", and the whole thing hangs together in an exceedingly coherentfashion. It makes you think there's something to be said for longevity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of Rickie Lee Jones' best days, 31 Oct 2003
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Rickie Lee Jones' career has been an up-and-down rollercoaster, with battles against alcohol and drug addiction and sporadic releasing schedules.
But with her 11th full-length album, 2003's THE EVENING OF MY BEST DAY, she has made a spectacular return to form, six years after her last work of original material, GHOSTYHEAD.
On these songs, Jones sounds as if she's been through the mill but has found optimism at the end of the tunnel. Songs like "Second Chance" and "It Takes You There" sound undeniably joyful, and as youthful as she ever was.
She recaptures the energy of her early work in songs like "Ugly Man", an effortlessly sophisticated take on throbbing jazz, and "Tell Somebody (Repeal the Patriot Act)", an angry protest against President Bush wrapped in up-tempo, swinging gospel/soul grooves.
The subject matter for THE EVENING OF MY BEST DAY is generally made up of protest songs against the state of modern America, but Rickie is never preachy or dull. This album is quite possibly the best record of 2003, her evocative, poetic lyrics lending themselves to sophisticated, jazzy melodies and beats. She returns to the sound of albums like RICKIE LEE JONES and PIRATES on "Second Chance", and includes some of her classic heartbreaking acoustic numbers with the piano-driven "The Evening of My Best Day" and the album's beautiful standout, "Sailor Song", a Celtic-tinged folk ballad that shows that, at 48, Rickie Lee Jones still has the vocal intensity and dazzling range she owned 20 years ago (and always has, for that matter).
Ever since 1984's THE MAGAZINE album, Jones' work has often been misunderstood and ignored by the general public (with the exception of 1989's FLYING COWBOYS), and judging by the sales figures of THE EVENING OF MY BEST DAY, it seems she has gained few new fans.
Of course, Jones' child-like voice and her distinctive slurry singing style is an acquired taste, and not everybody will be able to sit through these 12 masterpieces. But you don't need to be an avid fan of Rickie Lee Jones either. It may be an old cliche, but there truly is something for everyone here.
The familiar Rickie Lee sound is evident on a number of the cuts, but she delves deeper into jazz on "Ugly Man" (one of the album's best tracks), experiments with exotic samba on "Bitchenostrophy", which carries a familiar, lilting melody, takes on snaky, shady R&B on "Little Mysteries", and even turns to an odd, cinematic feel for "A Tree on Allenford", one of the more evocative cuts on the record.
Jones proves that she is also a master of blues on "Lap Dog" and "Mink Coat at the Bus Stop", two suitably bluesy numbers that fit her slurry, weathered vocal style excellently well.
THE EVENING OF MY BEST DAY is a fabulous album from Rickie Lee Jones, one of the greatest songwriters of all time alongside Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell. It is an exciting triumph for Jones, who has probably not made an album as consistently excellent as this since 1981's PIRATES, or at least since FLYING COWBOYS.
A fine, sophisticated mix of jazz, blues, folk, R&B and rock, Rickie Lee Jones' THE EVENING OF MY BEST DAY is one of the most thrilling return-to-forms in the history of rock music, and you will not be disappointed.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Art wins over Product, 5 Oct 2005
By Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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Six years after Ghostyhead, her last album of original material, Rickie Lee Jones was motivated to return by the need to comment on the political situation in America from her viewpoint as an outsider from within Washington DC. Whilst some of the songs are lyrically explicit and therefore tied to the time in which they appeared, thankfully they are musically strong enough to outlast such limitations. Her debut album, Rickie Lee Jones, did not have especially fashionable new sounds on it, but equally has not dated, and fits as easily into today's listening experiences as this one does and will continue to do.
As always the best musicians around have been employed to create a blend of jazz, blues, soul and folk that adds up to a homogenous and idiosyncratic whole. The album sees her re-united in the Village studio in West Los Angeles with producer David Kalish, a close friend who had worked with her on Pirates in 1981, and he brought in Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) to co-produce. It features contributions from master-guitarist Bill Frisell, whose trio appear on two tracks, and Pete Thomas (drummer with Elvis Costello) among a stellar cast.
"I think I'm a great writer," Rickie Lee Jones has said, "and an important character in American art", and I would not argue. In Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home there is a shot of Dylan standing beside a wall-poster proclaiming "Protest against the rising tide of conformity", which caused me to wonder who could stand beside such a poster today. Question answered.
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13 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars The Desertion of the Muse, 15 Dec 2003
I have listened to this album over 10 times now and each time it gets less satisfying and on the last listen I had to stop the album before the end as it gave me no pleasure.

The whole album feels to me to cobbled to together from scraps of songs, which she has been unable to fully realise. The critics have been kind to this album. Phrases such as ‘paying homage to her musical influences’ have been used to indicate the music, a less charitable view would be that she is struggling to come up with any original melodies has fallen back on half remembered tunes and fragments from previous songs of her own. To me there is a clear reason why RLJ has not produced any new work for over 7 years; she is, unfortunately for this once loyal fan, a spent force.

Sonically this is a poorly recorded and mastered album. The sound is veiled which obscures the lyrics. Therefore you need to refer to the lyric sheet, which should be with the album, but the artwork is minimal, just folding out to an A4 photo of two children in a garden by the side of the highway. On the other side there is the usual list of credits of musicians etc.

For an artist who is so keen on communicating her feelings and frustrations with the current political situation in the USA, it is odd that there are no lyrics with the artwork. You have to go to her web site to read them. When you get there you will find they are in a fine red text on a black background which almost impossible to read. Especially so if you might be dyslexic. There you have to print to a B&W printer to read them. When you do read them they are hardly up to previous work.

Call Bush or anybody else ‘ugly’ does not change the world. I do feel that she is a sincere artist who does have something to say but the muse has deserted her for many years now and it has not returned with this album

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