Old music: Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco

A song that portrays the heart as a truck in need of service and repair – why didn't Bruce Springsteen think of this?Rickie Lee Jones was a girl with a boy's name who knew about cars – and proved it with her aching song of yearning, roads, and disconnected spark plugs, The Last Chance Texaco. How could you not fall in love with her?Back in the late 70s, when car mechanics was a dirtier, oilier, greasier business, and had absolutely nothing to do with computers, the eponymous debut album of a...

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