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Word: jonesism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Duchess of Coolsville Richie Lee Jones hits big with a dash of scat and street poetry

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Whatever the fad, the Top 40 is territory that has not often been treated to the sound of well-groomed bop and is usually alien to lyrics of such well-tuned wit as these: "He was sittin' behind us down at the Pantages/ And whatever it is that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

She is too good to be just a fluke, too tender to pass completely for the street-wise character she likes to play in her songs, too unexpected and far too unlikely to be a product of some commercial calculation. Jones' sound, respect, gracefully oldtime, never turns antique. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Jones' songs all have a kind of Los Angeles lyricism, fast and relaxed and flush with exotic incongruity, like L.A.'s transplanted palm trees. "My writing is all from a particular neighborhood," she told TIME'S Jeff Melvoin. "I can pick any person on this street or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Thomas W. Jones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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