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Hello, this is Rickie Lee Jones, the new Queen of the Mermaids, at least the Coney Island chapter. We’ll start live-streaming around 12:00pm and / or 1:00pm ET from the legendary Mermaid Parade. So bring your peace signs and your beautiful old flower headbands. Bring your kids and your grandmas, and yourself. And your dog maybe, just keep it in the shade. Jesse Malin, King. Rickie Lee, Queen. You’re gonna have a great summer.

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Each moment framed by the bird, the dog, the wind, a perfect picture of my life. Another time instantly reached in and pulled out little bit of me from here and placed it there. And now when I remember walking along the farmer’s field, the dove calling, a far away plane, I am there. I’m not just looking back, I’m not remembering, I’m experiencing. I think when I s…

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“I guess the older I get the more dead people I’m gonna know.”—Rickie Lee Jones I met Bob Weir in San Francisco, back in the years I was playing with bassist Rob Wasserman. Rob and I met in 1983 and recorded a couple of songs for his second album which actually didn’t come out until 1988. Duets became so successful that Rob got to call his own shots, he worked with many cultural musical heroes of the time, adventurers and pirates, like me, and Lou Reed, and Bobby Weir.

Came back from tour a few weeks go? I would say on every level Patty Griffin and I had a great October tour. We saw the leaves change in New Hampshire. We started in a tiny club in a tiny town in Mississippi. We played the Cahn Auditorium, the theater I had played the year before with Sweet Honey and the Rock. It’s just outside of Chicago near the university. We stayed in a different hotel and just that much I was able to experience a whole different perspective of the area.

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A little check in from our tour with Patty Griffin.

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Hey folks, I am stepping up my subscription content—with thanks to my paid subscribers, and an invitation to my free subscribers to join us! For the cost of one ticket, one show, one dinner, you have my lessons, discussion, soundchecks and road trips… This September we have talked about RLJ songs that remind me of September, more or less. October is our tour month with Patty Griffin, and this Friday we’ll go “live with Rickie Lee” in Mississippi somewhere. On the road, real deal.