Album Review: Rickie Lee Jones, "Balm in Gilead" (Fantasy)

Evaluating Rickie Lee Jones [ tickets ]' new album, "Balm in Gilead," feels like an attempt to answer questions from a Taoist text. Is a journey complete when one returns home? If an adult connects with their youth, is a lesson finished or has it just begun? Jones has ventured on a linear journey over the last 30 years, not so much detouring as taking occasional off ramps, yet this latest stop is the first great reminder of where she started. Not that Jones has returned to the specific sound...

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