You know, it's hard to believe that you were just coming out of your teen age years when you wrote that song. You also wrote a song titled easy money that the producer bud dane e, and then he offered you a job wherein you would write a certain number of songs per month for 800 dollars a month. And back in 19 77, that was like winning the lottery. But yet, this song feels like an old soul wrote it.
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.