Last Chance Texaco

Have you met Ms.
Jones?

One night in 1979, a
woman in a red beret skyrocketed to fame after a performance on Saturday
Night Live. The song was “Chuck E’s in Love,” and the singer, Rickie Lee
Jones. A vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene, she would
soon be pronounced “Duchess of Coolsville” by TIME magazine.

Last Chance
Texaco is the first
no-holds-barred account of the life of one of rock’s hardest working women in
her own words. With candour and lyricism, Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the
journey of her exceptional life, including her nomadic childhood as the
granddaughter of vaudevillian performers; her father’s abandonment of the
family and her years as a teenage runaway; her beginnings at LA’s Troubadour
club; her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits and her battle with drugs; and
her longevity as a woman in rock and roll.

These are
never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a songwriter who would
inspire American culture for decades.