It's Like This
It's Like This is an album by the American singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released in 2000. Like her 1991 album Pop Pop, it is a covers record. The album was nominated for a 2001 Best Pop Traditional Record Grammy Award.
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', 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."Track listing
- "Show Biz Kids" – 4:35
- "Trouble Man" – 5:12
- "For No One" – 2:32
- "Smile" – 1:49
- "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" – 5:13
- "On the Street Where You Live" – 3:26
- "I Can't Get Started" – 4:30
- "Up a Lazy River" – 2:50
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" – 2:03
- "Cycles" – 3:16
- "One Hand, One Heart" – 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"
- Ben Sidran – co-producer
- Barry Goldberg, James Farber, Larry Alexander, Rob Smith – engineer
- Lee Cantelon – art direction, photography