Royal Concert corridor,Glasgow
No encores, and no Chuck E’s in cherish, and but Rickie Lee Jones delivers her straight-shooting jazz,rock and blues songs with husky integrityIt’s a shame Rickie Lee Jones’s move to New Orleans in 2013 came as the final season of HBO’s TV series Treme wrapped up. This straight-shooting Chicagoan singer-songwriter would gain fitted moral in among the various scandalously under-appreciated maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) musicians who make cameos in David Simon’s homage to the titanic Easy and its post-Katrina jazz and blues scene. Jones pays her own homage to the city on her first album of new fabric in a decade, The Other Side of Desire, or which is ostensibly what brings her to this year’s Celtic Connections festival. Not that she seems to get her link with Scottish roots music – “Maybe it’s the Celtic spirit saying ‘what the fuck are you doing at this festival?’” she jokes as guitar problems haunt the start of her set. And nor does she dwell on newer fabric,preferring instead to range freely through her extensive catalogue – with one notable exception – backed expressively by a five-piece band drawn from the Montreal jazz and blues scene.
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Source: theguardian.com