Info from Rickie Lee Jones:
"The album's got a kind of old flavor about it. There's no electric
music, no keyboard and no drums. A couple of songs have snare and a
bongo, but no
drum kit. Real intimate. It's real nice listening. [The
album's] just what I wanted to do, what I like to listen to. All
standards."
"I can't remember when I decided on just guitar and bass. I
was thinking about it for a couple of years, because I had practiced
'Valentine' with a guitar and bass when I lived in France and said 'Oh,
that's eally beautiful and different without a keyboard.' I think I got
the idea then and it was growing on me. [That sparer sound] is what I
grew up with. My uncle and my dad used to play together all the time:
they would sing those standards with the guitar so for me it's the most
natural sounding."
"It's not jazz in the way that people who like jazz like jazz. It's my own
way of looking at it. The album is old, it's very special."
-Rickie Lee Jones
Pop Pop -- CD
Rickie Lee Jones
1991 Geffen Records
Rickie Lee Jones's almost perfect Record, September 18, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Pop Pop (Audio CD)
If I had to choose a favorite Rickie Lee Jones record, it would be a
difficult choice but Pop Pop might just be my final decision. From the
first chords on an acoustic nylon string guitar on the first track you
know you're in for a treat. More than any other of her albums, Pop Pop
captures the magic that Rickie Lee Jones delivers on stage if you catch
her in a small venue. Jazz legends Charlie Haden on bass, Joe
Henderson on Sax and Robben Ford on acoustic guitar offer up jaw
dropping performances throughout Pop Pop. When it comes to subtle jazz
instrumentation and pitch perfect vocals, it doesn't get much better
than this. Add to that, the gorgeous quality of the recording and you
have the basic ingredients for a near perfect pop/jazz album that seems
to have rarely left my cd player for almost a decade. Stand out tracks
include: My One and Only Love, Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most,
Jimi Hendrix's Up From The Skies, Second Time Around, and Bye Bye
Blackbird.
Track listing
1. My One and Only Love
2. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most
3. Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
4. Up From the Skies
5. Second Time Around
6. Dat Dere
7. I'll Be Seeing You
8. Bye Bye Blackbird
9. Ballad of the Sad Young Men, The
10. I Won't Grow Up
11. Love Junkyard
12. Comin' Back to Me
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