It's Like This

It's Like This
Studio album by
Rickie Lee Jones
ReleasedSeptember 12, 2000
GenresPop, rock
LabelArtemis[1]
ProducersRickie Lee Jones, Bruce Brody[2]
Rickie Lee Jones chronology
Ghostyhead
(1997)		 It's Like This
(2000)		 Live at Red Rocks
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStar[3]
Robert Christgau(1-star Honorable Mention)[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStar[1]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[5]
The New Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStar[6]

It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in 2000.[7][8] Like her 1991 album Pop Pop, it is a covers record.[9][10] The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award.[11]

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "the album's most successful track is Jones's sinewy reading of Steely Dan's edgy missive, 'Show Biz Kids', [which] kicks off with just terse triangle and Richard Davis's snaky bass, with Jones tapping into the caustic detachment and cool cynicism the song's writers always intended."[9]

Track listing

  1. "Show Biz Kids" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 4:35
  2. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 5:12
  3. "For No One" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:32
  4. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 1:49
  5. "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 5:13
  6. "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:26
  7. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:30
  8. "Up a Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:50
  9. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:03
  10. "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell) – 3:16
  11. "One Hand, One Heart" (Leonard Bernstein) – 1:58

Personnel

Technical
  • Ben Sidran – co-producer (tracks: 1, 6–8, 10)
  • Barry Goldberg, James Farber, Larry Alexander, Rob Smith – engineer
  • Lee Cantelon – art direction, photography

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
2000 Billboard 200 148[12]
2000 Top Internet albums 10
2001 Top Independent albums 42

References

  1. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 695.
  2. ↑ "Reviews & Previews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 7, 2000 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "It's Like This - Rickie Lee Jones | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: Rickie Lee Jones". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. ↑ "Music Review: 'Hush' and 'It's Like This'". EW.com.
  6. ↑ The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 440.
  7. ↑ "Rickie Lee Jones | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ↑ "A conversation with Rickie Lee Jones". Salon. October 16, 2000.
  9. 1 2 "RICKIE LEE JONES "It's Like This" Artemis". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Talking with Rickie Lee Jones". The New Yorker. August 23, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Entertainment – 43rd Grammy Awards". CNN. February 21, 2001. Archived from the original on November 6, 2008.
  12. ↑ "Rickie Lee Jones". Billboard.
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