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After several albums of jazz and pop songbook standards, neo-beatnik hipster songstress Rickie Lee Jones released THE SERMON ON EXPOSITION BOULEVARD, one of the most inspired and well-crafted albums of her career. Reportedly based on the gospels of Christ, this album shouldn't be mistaken for Jones's born-again coming-out party. While the biblical references are numerous and not always subtle ("Donkey Ride"), the lyrical abstractions position the album as more about finding a peaceful self than about finding Jesus.
Musically, the album is varied yet cohesive. The listener is reminded of Jones's long-standing relationship with Tom Waits on the gritty "Tried to Be a Man", replete with a Waits-inspired raspy vocal. The most obvious reference point here, however, is thelate-1990s and early-'00s albums of Lucinda Williams. This is "adult" music with a "contemporary", slightly "alternative" studio sheen, but it's far too impassioned on the one hand ("Lamp of the Body") and righteously swinging on the other("Circle in the Sand"), to ever warrant a tag as bland and limiting as one encompassing those dreaded terms.
Musically, the album is varied yet cohesive. The listener is reminded of Jones's long-standing relationship with Tom Waits on the gritty "Tried to Be a Man", replete with a Waits-inspired raspy vocal. The most obvious reference point here, however, is thelate-1990s and early-'00s albums of Lucinda Williams. This is "adult" music with a "contemporary", slightly "alternative" studio sheen, but it's far too impassioned on the one hand ("Lamp of the Body") and righteously swinging on the other("Circle in the Sand"), to ever warrant a tag as bland and limiting as one encompassing those dreaded terms.
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