The Sermon On Exposition Blvd. (2CD Set) [Limited Collector's Edition]

Rickie Lee Jones (Artist) (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Limited Collector's Edition
• Label: New West Records
• ASIN: B000N9XVI6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,562,010 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Limited Edition includes Bonus Live disc recorded at The Cotton Club, Japan. Packaged in a Fold-out Digipak with 14 page booklet. DISC ONE: 1)Nobody Knows My Name 2)Gethsemane 3)Falling Up 4)Lamp Of The Body 5)It Hurts 6)Where I Like It Best 7)Tried To Be A Man 8)Circle In The Sand 9)Donkey Ride 10)7th Day 11)Elvis Cadillac 12)Road To Emmaus 13)I Was There DISC TWO: 1)Nobody Knows My Name 2)It Hurts 3)Circle In The Sand

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, Sweet, Devil, March 9, 2007

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Anton Quasimodo "AntonQuasimodo/Anti-Cute" (Kansas City,) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sermon On Exposition Blvd. (2CD Set) (Audio CD)

I hadn't listened to Ms. Jones in years. I was enchanted by "PIRATES". It had an improvisational jazzy feel. But since that time Rickie Lee & I had parted ways.
However, this is a terrific new album and features some of her best writing & raw edgy vocals. This is an artist at the top of her game. I can't stop listening to these amazing hearfelt tunes. peace.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like the Monk, she is divine, like the Angels, she is Falling Up, April 9, 2007

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Penny Lane (Probably, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sermon On Exposition Blvd. (2CD Set) (Audio CD)

New West only printed a limited amount of these 'enhanced' versions, obviously not sure what the demand would be.
I advice you write amazon and new west and let them know you want this product.
There is very little video out of the artist who actually began Video .
Her career, her incredible debut was the first led by a video. Her 11 minute three song 1979 video was pivotal in establishing her character as a street urchin, it showed her gleaning her street skills over garbage can fires and riding around with good looking bums, wearing the slurred beret that would soon be on the heads of every head in town, including that famous lennon and yoko shot in 1980. Conversely, It, and she, were outrageously ignored by the new wavers of MTV, but history will bear out this fact: Jones is one of a kind, a Beatle among women, a personality so unique that after her multi million selling debut she withdrew to higher plains and distant muses and never looked back. today, her voice is the most imitated voice in pop music, period. From Fiona to Jewel, to the obvious Sheryl crow and norah jones, this womans tonality, pronunciation and character have been taken up and regurgitated by so many that I am sure few people remember or realize that when they listen to a recent 'cant find my way home' by a popular young singer, or ' every little thing she does is magic' by
another ... those girls are doing their very best Rickie Lee Jones. Why she seems to inhabit a half light of fame, I cannot understand. Perhaps Rickie wore too many hats, and so was not singular enough in her perception to the fans - the wailing piano Rickie, the story telling accoustic waif, the weird and offbeat lyricist, the intimate, neo jazz balladeer, the cowgirl mamma, - to sustain the absolute vigilance her elder songwriter icons have sustained with their images. Why hasn't she been inducted into the hall of fame? is it possible? like Billie Holiday, she seems to be the most important disregarded singer of her time. Watching Rickie is like Billie, she contains a disturbingly sensual expression, her face and her movement so engaged, as if her voice were a physical extension of her soul. It is authentic and flawed, and it is the most powerfully emotional voice in music today. This
recording seems to have caught some of that fire.

see her here actually filmed as the record was being made! If you can find it. it is a rare and great thing to have won, filming her singing the recordings. good on Lee Cantelon for filming and producing this, and fir designing her cd's for a decade. It's about time she was heralded, and this work deserves a grammy nod in more than one direction.