Your mother was raised in orphanages around mansfield, ohio. The courts ruled your mam's mam an unfit mother and all four of her children were permanently separated from her. All four children, along with a million other orphans of the great depression, were left to fend for themselves among the religious fanatics and petifiles that seemed to gravitate towards children's homes. She stood up to the satest and frightened her. And the woman never bothered her again.
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.