'I always loved this photo most of all because it kind of represented me standing in front of life.' Rickie Lee Jones, 5, in saddle shoes at a carnival in Phoenix. So me standing outside of it looking at it is a very touching thing. A lot of my songs are about carnival people or refer somehow to the fair. 'And the excitement of the carnival and all the things that are coming. 'I always loved this photo most of all because it kind of represented me standing in front of life,' she says.
Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. That photo was taken at a little shopping plaza by her childhood home on Orangewood Avenue near the Black Canyon Freeway in Phoenix, where her family moved when she was 4 in 1959.Īnother of her favorite early photographs was taken at that carnival. There's a picture of Rickie Lee Jones as a child on the back of the self-titled album that introduced her to the world in 1979 on the way to earning Jones a Best New Artist Grammy.
