Rickie Lee Jones - Flying Cowboys (Live on The Arsenio Hall Show)

Rickie Lee Jones performing "Flying Cowboys" on The Arsenio Hall Show along with an interview from 1989.
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[@c.r.m3113]

Rickie Lee Jones is one of my all time favourite woman singer/ song writers. She’s one of the greatest singer/ song writers of all time. She’s an inspirational woman who’s inspired so many women to evolve and become better versions of themselves..She’s soooo cool, motivational and insightful.. I love listening to her music when I’m feeling sad and lonely.. She’s my own personal pick up 🆙 gal.. Rickie Lee Jones makes this world a better place, God bless her always..

[@petermason2200]

"When I was young, I was a wild, wild, one." Who can't relate, especially when it comes with Ms Jones singing?

[@pamcargill3941]

She sang that lyric in Horses as well, and based on interviews she’s given and her book, she ain’t lying! Her lyrics are touching and insightful. A genius imo.

[@KevanRice]

So you where a dish

[@sharir.878]

Always original, she never got homogenized into the music "industry!" Bravo

[@laripu]

Wonderful poem. I've always loved this song, since I first heard it. I get the shivers when she sings "Long coats on the prairie".

[@leafnlore2712]

I know Pirates was your shooting star, Rickie, but Flying Cowboys, to me, will always be your glorious nebula! And Magazine is the space it resides in. Gorgeous music, thank you!

[@SFVGIRL]

❤❤❤

[@leahmedeiros2029]

LOVE , LOVE , LOVE RICKIE LEE JONES - One of my favorite shows was at the Wiltern Theater in the 90s. I screamed out I Love you Rickie when she was getting ready to perform We belong together . I was probably her youngest fan that evening and I sang every song and That was a birthday gift to me from a best buddy who surprised me with the tickets

[@crazyelf62]

RLJ broke big in my senior year in high school, I liked Chuck E but did not pick up on her as someone I wanted to listen too much. Then two years later in 1981 I went to see a movie in a nearly empty theatre and got there really early and the theatre had the Pirates LP playing. I fell in love with that album and I was hooked, it is such a relaxing LP. After the movie I went to the record store next to the theatre and got Pirates and her debut LP and have been loyal ever since. Thanks RLJ.

[@joheyv]

Why oh why did she never get the recognition she deserved? Girl much lol

[@libeloha3469]

Rickie IS TENDERNESS. Also sharp, wise, brave and funny. I love how fast she reacts, taking his seat 🏴‍☠️ 😊 Mama Rickie ✊🏽❤️

[@headholio]

I wasn't much of a fan of hers, but many years ago found this song and knew it was something special. Somehow found it tonight on KZbin. If it moves you like it moves me, then you are lucky.

[@arnieus866]

I am a fan since the beginning. There is no one like her. I am enchanted by such personal creativity in the same way by Joni Mitchell, and Joan Armatrading. However Rickie's whole life is like performance art.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

You’ve got great taste. Don’t forget Bonnie Raitt.

[@cyndykated358]

I’m loving her book plus just saw she’s been posting all year on her KZbin channel!

[@emmyandboo]

My bf played this song one night and we danced to it. I started to cry at that beautiful song and I will hold that moment with me forever. He brings me so much happiness. Great song.

[@SFVGIRL]

I love your story. My boyfriend in 1979 played RLJ for me the first time, her first record. It will always be magic. Here I am at 59 years old. He's my friend still, and Rickie is still our favorite artist of all time. ❤❤❤ She brings love and life to everyone.

[@emmyandboo]

@@SFVGIRL aw I love that - ♥️

[@thathawaiiandude787]

Always loved to hear this woman sing. But, even more, love to watch and listen to her speak. Amazing soul

[@stuartrichardson9004]

You should check out her autobiography, last chance Texaco - which she narrates : ) 😊

[@zenpaganwarrior]

Fell in love with a woman I was dating while playing the album Pirates at her house a bunch of times in 1999-2000. Every time I hear it, it totally represents all the feelings, hopes, yearning, and pleasure of that long encounter with "J", who ended up marrying someone else long ago. Thank you, Rickie, for all the incredibly original, heartfelt music!

[@solinpookie69]

...this whole album is BEYOND AMAZING!!...

[@Killahboot]

"The Horses" and "Satellites" and the whole shebang..... good lawd.

[@barbarabourne1501]

There is no talent like hers--such a gifted musician, songwriter, singer!

[@catherinie]

i adore her so much 🥹 she’s an absolutely precious person, so soft spoken but so wise and soulful and quietly confident. i love you so much rickie!!

[@kimmomaki]

man, she just gets a chokehold on your identity and wrings it right out of you! Breathtaking stuff.

[@abrooksize]

I’ll never forget that New York club where a dwarf named Christian, a college friend of my boyfriend at the time, sang “we belong together” and I realized there was so much to RLJ aside from Chuck E... obsessed with her ever since

[@apacheking9776]

Fell in love with her the moment I saw her wearing that beret and smoking that cigarette on her debut album cover. That album was fabulous. Great sessions musicians and her voice was hypnotic.

[@RIDEMID]

Incredible Gallup and spacing. God Bless Walter Becker and RLJ

[@acousticshadow4032]

Saw Rickie on tour in support of "Flying Cowboys" about this time. Lyle Lovett was on the bill, too. Talk about a one-two-punch-best-bang-for-your-buck concert! Great night.

[@bleenator]

I saw this tour. I had brought my girlfriend, a fan Lyle's to see him at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. We hadn't planned to stay for the second act. You'd think as a performer I should have known. Not familiar with many of her songs, by the third song, people were weeping and I was hooked. It was the best live music performance I have ever seen. I have never been so blown away.

[@apacheking9776]

Rickie Lee was guest vocalist on Lovett's beautiful North Dakota song. Check it out.

[@admiralhowdy]

Wow, it was 5 years since the last album? Wow, she really pumped them out during that first 5 years. I missed Flying Cowboys, but know the first 3 very well.

[@nanfarr5982]

I am a fan! I was a fan at the beginning! Reading her book, "Last Chance Texaco." I would love to see her in concert again.

[@Killahboot]

This is a song of absolute concentrated JOY and she is completely bursting with it so much she cannot contain it. WHAT. A. GODDESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@scouts.748]

She is my favorite singer of all time

[@troydanielboy]

I'm SOOOOO glad I have her LPs, because the quality of the videos from SNL, Arsenio, etc, do her no justice. I adore her and her music.

[@frankgarnevicus1187]

This song resonates so well for our modern times as well. My wife and I did share one special if fleeting and seemingly inconsequential connection with her at a show in Albany NY a few years ago given her great sense of humanity. I will not repeat it here it already being elsewhere. In the totality of things I see this song slightly differently given the ups and downs in our individual lives. None of us are a fixed point in space but moving targets. No one is Polaris, the same as they were 20 years ago or even last month. Also, the further we project out we become more erroneous making the past the only constant in our inconsistent memories. That is what makes Rickie Lee Jones not only our very own Grande Dame of Poetry but our Living Riddle of the Sphinx. One great lady.

[@belindapippin8662]

She is a fascinating person

[@migue4793]

I bought this album Flying Cowboys and omg i fell in love. She is drop dead gorgeous and has voice of angelic love.

[@ireneruthfox]

She has always been so bad ass.

[@pamsawyer6615]

Love ricky lee!

[@boeliewinter7492]

My reason to sing, drum and love! I hope she ' good in New Orleans!

[@HomeAtLast501]

I was in junior high when "Chuckie's In Love" came out, and I bought the 45.

[@paulcooper3463]

What a beutiful woman.

[@andyinoregon]

On Aug. 12, 1979 my wife and I took our 8 year-old daughter to her first big-time concert -- Rickie Lee Jones at Portland's Civic Auditorium. One of the best concerts of our lifetime.

[@PInk77W1]

“When I was 14 I was afraid of my voice.” Rickie Lee Jones

[@JayKauffman]

Is that a lyric in her song? (I'm reading her book now and am thinking "Did she say that in the book...?")

[@PInk77W1]

@@JayKauffman I read it somewhere Don’t think it’s a lyric

[@jaymarks1]

When I was young.....I was a wild, wild one....

[@Peter-rl4nc]

how beautiful she was here

[@robertwalter8380]

What magic between these 2 . And Rickie is so candid and yet so shy 🥀🥀🥀

[@REZZA2020]

This is brilliant ! - the fluffy clouds gal- is awesome !

[@scotttully8572]

I remember seeing Rickie Lee in NYC sometime around 1990. She was amazed how much love was coming her way. She actually blushed, and said "You really LIKE me??" 😢 Beautiful memory

[@11Garrett11]

Musical genius

[@supremeali9703]

she's so fascinating

[@vegtamvanderveg]

Wow. She is so great!

[@ClintScottFischer]

Her voice, such an amazing talent.

[@patricecatanio901]

God, I love her. I never miss her live. This album was as good as the first 2 !!!! If you haven't head the Other Side of Desire....it's right up there!!!!

[@petewoodroffemusic]

FLYING COWBOYS is 2nd best due to production by Walter Becker but equally inconsistent...

[@joesnelson8287]

This was actually her 4th album. Magazine was her third and it was wonderful too.

[@wernerrohr7259]

I saw her twice live on stage in Hamburg (Germany) great concerts. Rickie and Mitchell are what i like

[@YvanSOMMER]

I love this song so much...

[@dnorteno61]

One of my all-time favorite albums...

[@shith00k]

Great tune from a great album!

[@letmetellyousomething123]

Just a great talent.

[@schandler4630]

Such a great album! Lyrics, music, and overall feeling of the album is innovative and thought provoking.

[@schandler4630]

Wonderful conversation with Arsenio...you are an inspiration for one who has been lost inside themselves.

[@Steve-vx3bm]

I remember her performance of Check E's in Love from SNL and went out the next day and purchased the album at Sam Goody's on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Smitten ever since.

[@joeroberts2481]

I love her!

[@tracylf5409]

I have loved her since she 1st started. An amazingly talented singer-songwriter, & human being. I understand how many don't get it-- it's a very nuanced stance, aka, Steely Dan. Almost a performance artist. Ala Kate Bush (in a way).

[@larrybaltz4873]

RLJ is sublime.

[@psychcowboy1]

This song is so epic, long coats on the prairie, who can I turn to, who can I trust...I have covered this tune a couple times. The pinnacle of Rickie's artistry IMHO, like Tom Petty Don't Come Around Here No More, stands out above the rest.

[@RoccoGeorge]

Arsenio is the best always was.

[@JP-wx6uh]

I think she's far more well known for "Little Fluffy Clouds" than anything else.

[@brianplante-dv8uz]

Only to you.. Most people who listen to the ORB , aren't even going to know who is being quoted at the beginning of that song. Unlike you. I loved Rickie in 79 and the ORB in 90.. Get some knowledge, cause this is a stupid comment

[@joesnelson8287]

Chuckees in love and Danny's all star joint I think. She won a Grammy for making whopee.

[@VictorHLopez33]

I love your voice! x

[@tenderbastardtenderbastard8050]

the dog said, "there's a place where loveliness lives and she knows where it is." ~ tenderbastard

[@CherylWhitestone]

Perfect conversation at the end, men are tender.

[@EddieCaplan]

What a wonderfully intimate and unusual interview. Bravo to them both.

[@classygary]

That is perfection

[@cecilkjohnson]

"I think men are more tender than women, they just wear a harder mask."

[@11Garrett11]

100%

[@deathmetal7624]

Truth

[@70softrocker]

Rediscovering her again..one of my fave artists...debut album. Pirates..magazine.. flying cowboys..pop pop..naked songs... evening of my best day..sermon on expo blvd... other side of desire..

[@lindareed1173]

I agree totally! So sultry, smooth, smokey.

[@floydshambles]

love this song

[@colinturner4158]

Seems like a talented lady with charm

[@forqueue]

HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading her well written biography, 'Last Chance Texaco'.

[@stephenmurphy3620]

Honest & Open

[@aliyourbrother1]

That is so beautiful.

[@RIDEMID]

Amazing

[@marcozoncu3893]

Sooo cute!

[@pennyandrews3237]

Rikki!!!. Good interview. 2018

[@boeliewinter7492]

I ' m goin to order your Book! You are my mususical love!!

[@vls3771]

Half J Mitchell half LAnderson the very cool RLJ.....

[@terrybartholomew7311]

The great Peter Erskine on drums - as on the recording

[@goobytron2888]

“Little fluffy clouds"

[@cherylb2008]

She’s got a beautiful voice. Never liked the scat style but she’s definitely talented

[@keefebaby]

Reminds me of Laurie Anderson love em both

[@joeybenoit6269]

Ricky Lee should do at least one cover from Joni Mitchell! Almost every female vocalist in Rock owes a lot that Joni Mitchell!

[@LeonVerhulst]

What were the skies like when you were young?

[@grimlock1211]

Little Gabriel Iglesias clouds.

[@farmyardflavours]

They ran on forever...

[@9496TULL]

She’s so cute

[@UrbanRevivalMediaPro]

Brilliant stuff from.the sexy need

[@tulliogiusi]

👏👏👏👏❤️🙌🤗

[@seanbarr5871]

How adorable was Rickie lee here?

[@Dtrain-kq8kd]

stone beauty...digging deep an leading,...

[@artsyamy73]

She grew up in my homesweethome Phoenix..where wayy too many are moving to..noo!!

[@CliftonGaines-yv9bm]

Does anybody realize that's Walter Becker on the bass in the back by the drums?!!

[@jackcrane7853]

She was the Joni Mitchell of the eighties!

[@elizabethmcleod246]

Yes

[@jamescassidy3995]

The loud elephant synth noise is funny for about one second!

[@goobytron2888]

It was a little much.

[@jamescassidy3995]

@@goobytron2888 Album version is exquisite though! 🐘✌️

[@Agnos66]

Uwielbiam Rickie Lee ..... I love Rickie Lee ......... szczególnie gdy jest w spódnicy i rajstopach ...... especially when she is in skirt in pantyhose

[@showshowthecloneclown8428]

Poet gurl fascinates me @rikkileejones

[@joeybenoit6269]

I owe a lot to Joni Mitchell she took me to Paris!

[@briancaterino2479]

Walter Becker who produced this album is supposedly on bass here. low quality video. It's hard to see

[@candacemenard4229]

A sweet lady

[@friendofbeaver6636]

I bailed when Arsenio got all cutsie with Rickie.