The Sermon On Exposition Blvd. [Fold-out Digipak with 14 page booklet]

Rickie Lee Jones

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: February 6, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: New West Records
• ASIN: B000L211NM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,457 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Fans of Rickie Lee Jones and Jesus Christ can decide whether this devotional music is rapturously spiritual or deliriously strange. It sounds like nothing Jones has previously released, or anything characterizable as contemporary Christian. Instead, her voice soars and wobbles through repetitive, stream-of-consciousness incantations over rhythmic throbs and pulses. On "Where I Like It Best," Jones testifies to the power of private prayer (while seeming to cast churchgoers as hypocrites). The feral distortions of "Tried to Be a Man" recall some of the textures (if not the themes) of her former boyfriend Tom Waits, while the acoustic setting of "Donkey Ride" features guitar tunings that might make Sonic Youth wince and "Elvis Cadillac" conjures a singular vision of heaven. At close to eight and a half minutes, the closing "I Was There" seems to follow Van Morrison into the mystic. Some of this music is oddly affecting; much of it is merely odd. --Don McLeese

Product Description
THE SERMON ON EXPOSITION BOULEVARD, the new album by Rickie Lee Jones and her first for New West Records, is a beauty--soul-satisfying and sonically unique. RICKIE LEE sounds completely tapped in, alive and vital, heading down some mighty interesting roads and discovering new magical essences. Lots of creative sparks here--plenty of them. She sounds like she's going through a transformation throughout the album in a way that's reminiscent of Van Morrison's performances on his classic album Astral Weeks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars celebrate!, February 23, 2007

By	Stephen Roxborough (Anacortes, Washington USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

thank you rickie lee for revealing the essence of creative spirit and holy spirit and revolutionary spirit and down-to-earth human spirit all at the same time (without being preachy or heavy-handed or lightweight). buy this recording and you get the ghosts of van morrison, the rolling stones, tom waits, nick drake, john cale, wilco and daniel lanois all married to a great magic flowing through the renewed spirit of rickie jones. recordings like this are few and far between. eventually, history calls them "essential." i have a strong feeling i'll be playing this one for as long as i live.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My sermon here, February 21, 2007

By	Gaylen Halbert (Weimar, California United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Two weeks have passed and there is only one review of this cd since its release? Wow! I listened to the cd, watched the DVD and then listed to the cd again. The DVD/SACD version is not essential, but the cd is. In a few weeks I will be driving 120 miles to San Francisco to catch Rickie live. This is really good stuff. If there was any justice the track "Falling Up" would be getting lots of air play and would be one of the top singles on the charts. If you are a Rickie Lee Jones fan you absolutely must have this cd.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I think this will grow on me, February 10, 2007

By	Lonson E. Armstrong "Lon Armstrong" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was intrigued to hear her interpretation or inspired product from "The Words" . . . . I've spun it twice and I like it. . . . I don't "love it" yet but I might.

I've great respect for her work, this is different, very much more "rock" than any other of her projects. . . .But still very characteristically Rickie Lee, if a more mature and perhaps austere Rickie Lee. . . .