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Rickie Lee Jones (photo courtesy of the artist)

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Born in Chicago, raised in Arizona, and by the time she was a teenager, roaming California on her own, there is a peripatetic trait to Jones's songs. She's absorbed the energy of locales like Paris, New York, Florida, the Pacific Northwest, and New Orleans. She's also always colored her songs with the sunset pastels of her childhood in the American Southwest. [Read more]

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    Conversation, live performance, and improv, with Claudia Marshall.
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    With a full band in Studio A: The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard

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