The author's paternal grandfather, frank pegleg jones, and his grandmother, myrtle lee, were vaudevillians based in chicago. Frank was a really big star singer and dancer on the vaudeville circuit. Do you have memories of seeing him perform when you were a child? I'm hoping in some em some piece of film that they find in a studio, that pegleg jONES will be there in an adition tape. But i've never got to see him.
Long a believer in the impossible, Rickie Lee Jones has lived an extraordinary life of song. Here, she reflects on five decades of making music.