It's Like This

It's Like This
Studio album by Rickie Lee Jones
Released	September 12, 2000
Genre	Pop, rock
Label	Artemis[1]
Producer	Rickie Lee Jones, Bruce Brody[2]
Rickie Lee Jones chronology
Ghostyhead (1997) It's Like This (2000) Live at Red Rocks (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Robert Christgau	[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]

It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in 2000.^[7][8] Like her 1991 album Pop Pop, it is a covers record.^[9][10] The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award.^[11]

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "the album's most successful track is Jones's sinewy reading of Steely Dan's edgy missive, 'Show Biz Kids', [which] kicks off with just terse triangle and Richard Davis's snaky bass, with Jones tapping into the caustic detachment and cool cynicism the song's writers always intended."^[9]

Track listing

1. "Show Biz Kids" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 4:35
2. "Trouble Man" (Marvin Gaye) – 5:12
3. "For No One" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:32
4. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 1:49
5. "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 5:13
6. "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:26
7. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:30
8. "Up a Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:50
9. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:03
10. "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell) – 3:16
11. "One Hand, One Heart" (Leonard Bernstein) – 1:58

Personnel

• Rickie Lee Jones – vocals, guitar, organ
• Bruce Brody – organ
• John Pizzarelli – acoustic guitar
• Alex Foster – saxophone
• Jeff Dellisanti – bass clarinet
• Conrad Herwig – trombone
• Richard Davis – acoustic bass
• Paul Nowinski – acoustic bass
• Mike Elizondo – acoustic bass
• Peter Erskine – drums
• Carl Allen – drums
• Rick Marotta – drums
• Bashiri Johnson – percussion
• Joe Jackson – piano, backing vocals on "Show Biz Kids", and "For No One"
• Ben Folds – piano on "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys", duet vocal "One Hand, One Heart"
• Ben Folds, Dan Hicks, Taj Mahal – backing vocals on "Up a Lazy River"

Technical

• Ben Sidran – co-producer (tracks: 1, 6–8, 10)
• Barry Goldberg, James Farber, Larry Alexander, Rob Smith – engineer
• Lee Cantelon – art direction, photography

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2000	Billboard 200	148[12]
2000	Top Internet albums	10
2001	Top Independent albums	42

References

1. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 695.
2. "Reviews & Previews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 7, 2000 – via Google Books.
3. "It's Like This - Rickie Lee Jones | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
4. "Robert Christgau: CG: Rickie Lee Jones". www.robertchristgau.com.
5. "Music Review: 'Hush' and 'It's Like This'". EW.com.
6. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 440.
7. "Rickie Lee Jones | Biography & History". AllMusic.
8. "A conversation with Rickie Lee Jones". Salon. October 16, 2000.
9. "RICKIE LEE JONES "It's Like This" Artemis". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
10. "Talking with Rickie Lee Jones". The New Yorker. August 23, 2012.
11. "Entertainment – 43rd Grammy Awards". CNN. February 21, 2001. Archived from the original on November 6, 2008.
12. "Rickie Lee Jones". Billboard.

External links

• Discography at Rickie Lee Jones official web site. Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine