Rickie Lee Jones

Simon, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Rickie Lee Jones, Kenny Loggins (with whom he wrote “What a Fool Believes”), Joni Mitchell, and the Pointer Sisters.

…saint; and Waits’s female counterpart, Rickie Lee Jones, whose pop-jazz suites echoed Nyro’s effusions. In England, Richard Thompson wrote scathingly despairing social realist ballads, while the hugely prolific Elvis Costello, whose first album was released in 1977, brought the anger and skepticism of punk rock into his trickily rhymed circumlocutory…