Rickie Lee Jones

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2005

First Recording: 1979

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Rickie Lee Jones
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Rickie Lee Jones (1979)
Pirates (1981)

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Chuck E.'s in Love (1979)

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Will Rickie Lee Jones be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Few artists can create such musical visualization with her voice which in the songs she writes becomes but another intricate instrument that happens to paint such visual and emotional stories in song... she has created her own musical genre which no other artist has created before her nor has been able to capture since... the closest I can call it is a fusion on jazz, beatnik, and barrio soul with hints of western thrown in on occasion...

Posted by Tom on Wednesday, 11/1/2017 @ 00:00am


Checking in with this page after several years.
Rickie's influence on singers is so vast, I just don't think anyone realizes it because it's going on its third generation of singers now. RLJ has always done it her way and the conformity in the music world is pretty much artists who do that. That said, I believe she will get in, but it's going to take time and when there is a new appreciation of her work that will feel like a big rediscovery for the music world. Things are going to have to line up and they eventually will.

Posted by Gene Skala on Friday, 01/25/2019 @ 12:23pm


Gene, thanks for dropping by again. IMO, influence alone will not get you into the Hall.

I just don't think Ms. Jones has enough material to have a case. I think if she is ever inducted, it will be in the far distant future.

Posted by Paul in KY on Friday, 01/25/2019 @ 13:58pm


Paul, she has quite a lot of material. 15 studio albums, 2 live albums, and a 3-disc anthology. A song she wrote called "Horses" is considered the unofficial anthem of Australia. A Grammy with Dr. John, "Fluffy Little Clouds", etc. etc.

Posted by Gene Skala on Monday, 06/10/2019 @ 23:51pm


I can't believe the ignorance of some of these comments.
1) if you are not at least in your mid-50's sthu. In a period of disco, early punk, and soft rock crap, RLJ hit the world like storm. Blew it out of the park
2) Name me one band in the last 30 years with a larger ratio of "talked about to listened to" than Nirvana......you can't.
3) I'm still listening to her 40 years later......still fresh... still great.
4) "stole" from Laura Nyro?!? give me a break. Nyro influenced all female singers/song writers at that time, which RLJ has acknowledged (as has Bette Midler and others). That is like saying everyone stole from Dylan. Name a song Nyro wrote for RLJ, who wrote her stuff, she didn't steal from anyone. She basically created her own genre.
5) She may not have the "pipes" of Linda Ronstadt, but where would Linda be without Karla Bonoff writing for her?

RLJ deserves the RRHF more than many in it.........

Posted by dave on Tuesday, 04/27/2021 @ 15:06pm


Richie is an enormous talented songwriter. Here early albums are must listen to music. She has 15 albums to her credit all which are excellent. She is a very unique artist with a magical voice. She definitely must be in the RR Hall.

Posted by Carl Hardy on Wednesday, 02/16/2022 @ 20:36pm


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