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Syd Straw can be heard singing harmony and backing vocals on the Rickie Lee Jones albums Traffic from Paradise and The Evening of My Best Day. She is also featured on Leo Kottke 's Peculiaroso, which Jones produced. Straw appears on "What Am I Worth" from the Dave Alvin album King of California.
Sep 21, 2016 · After moving to New York at nineteen, she’s graced more than three hundred albums with folks like Wilco, Emmylou Harris, Michael Stipe, Vic Chesnutt, Rickie Lee Jones, and Dave Alvin.
Background singer Syd Straw's soulful accompaniment to Jones is so prominent that this could have been called a duet. Whether Jones's version adds to the original is your call, but this bare-bones-to-no-bones rendition would surely be lacking without Straw's growliness.
Syd Straw, who appeared at the Bottom Line on Wednesday, belongs to a tradition of willfully offbeat personalities like Patti Smith, Rickie Lee Jones and Cyndi Lauper. Although she has not yet...
The Evening of My Best Day. 12. A Face in the Crowd. Rickie Lee Jones – vocals, guitar, piano, sitar, percussion, bowed dulcimer, horn arrangements. Syd Straw – vocals. Nels Cline – guitar. Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone. Rob Wasserman – bass. Blair Aaronson – orchestration.
I guess when it is your money it pays to choose the best so Jones employed Bill Frisell, Alex Acuna, Grant Lee Phillips, Ben Harper, Syd Straw, Greg Phillinganes, David Hildalgo and Rob Wasserman among others.
Feb 17, 2014 · Rickie Lee Jones + Brian Setzer + Syd Straw - Rebel Rebel [November 1993] What's for afters? [Stereo] Live version of a Bowie composition, done by three major talents.
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