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Flying Cowboys

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Background
Reception
Track listing
Charts
Personnel
Musicians Technical
References
External links

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Flying Cowboys is an album by Rickie Lee Jones that was released in September 1989 and produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan.

Background

After the release of The Magazine in 1984, Jones retreated from the limelight. She married Pascal Nabet Meyer and gave birth to daughter Charlotte Rose in 1988 while working on her fourth full-length studio album.

Jones and Nabet Meyer had been writing and working together on new material for several years before the recording work commenced in 1988, with Becker as producer. Jones had expressed admiration for the work of Steely Dan, particularly their album The Royal Scam (1976).

Promotional copies of Flying Cowboys were packaged with an interview with Jones conducted by an unknown individual (previously misidentified as LeVar Burton). This interview is the source for a passage that is extensively sampled on British electronic group The Orb's 1990 hit "Little Fluffy Clouds".^[1]

Reception

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St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 13, 1989 (4/5) – "[She] embraces adulthood and real life without sacrificing her cool, bohemian edge."

Time, Oct. 23, 1989 – "In Flying Cowboys...she sets down a kind of mystical confessional, full of allusive autobiography and reflective nonchalance. It has the breadth of an important book and the emotional impact of great rock 'n' roll."

Rolling Stone, Nov. 2, 1989 (4/5) – "While it explores a wealth of themes and musical styles, the album unfolds with the ongoing grace of one long song. What provides unity to the album's varied elements is its seductive rhythmic flow, the down-home surrealism of Jones's lyrics, the clarity and intelligence of Walter Becker's production and, of course, the sensual elasticity of Jones's extraordinary singing."

The New York Times, Dec. 24, 1989 – Best of 1989 – "Ms. Jones's newest suite of enigmatic dream songs drenched in personal mythology is an eccentric tour de force, as rich in imagery as it is self-dramatizing."

Track listing

All songs written by Rickie Lee Jones, except where noted.

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| length1 = 4:47
| title2 = Just My Baby
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| length2 = 4:44
| title3 = Ghetto of My Mind
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| title4 = Rodeo Girl
| writer4 = Jones
| length4 = 4:50
| title5 = Satellites
| writer5 = Jones
| length5 = 4:54
| title6 = Ghost Train
| writer6 = Jones
| length6 = 4:16
| title7 = Flying Cowboys
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| title8 = Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
| writer8 = {{hlist|Les Chadwick|Leslie Maguire|Gerry Marsden|Fred Marsden}}
| length8 = 4:13
| title9 = Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive
| writer9 = {{hlist|Jones|Nabet-Meyer}}
| length9 = 4:51
| title10 = Away from the Sky
| writer10 = Jones
| length10 = 5:30
| title11 = Atlas' Marker
| writer11 = Jones
| length11 = 5:58
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Charts

Album - Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1989	The Billboard 200	39

Singles - Billboard

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1989	"Satellites"	Modern Rock Tracks	23

Personnel

Musicians

Rickie Lee Jones - synthesizer, guitar, vocals; all instruments (4)
John Robinson - drums (1, 3, 5, 9)
Peter Erskine - drums (7, 11)
Buzz Feiten - guitar (1, 3, 5, 9)
Dean Parks - guitar (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11)
Greg Phillinganes - keyboards (1, 3, 5)
Neil Stubenhaus - bass (1, 3, 5, 9, 11)
Sal Bernardi - guitar, backing vocals (7)
Jim Keltner - drum machine effects (6)
Bob Sheppard - saxophone (5, 8)
Rob Wasserman - bass (8)
Paulinho da Costa - percussion (8)
William "Smitty" Smith - organ (1)
Michael Omartian - piano (1)
Ed Alton - bass (2)
Michael Fisher - percussion (2)
Gary Coleman - vibraphone (2)
Bob Zimmitti - percussion (3, 5)
Chris Dickie - drum programming (4)
Walter Becker - bass (7)
Marty Krystall - English horn, clarinet (7), tenor saxophone (9)
Vince Mendoza - trumpet (7)
Greg Mathieson - Hammond B3 organ (9)
Michael Boddicker - synthesizer (10)
Pascal Nabet-Meyer - synthesizer, piano (7), percussion programming (11)
Randy Brecker - trumpet (11)
Vonda Shepard - backing vocals
Chris Smith - harmonica

Technical

Walter Becker - producer
Gary Gersh, Pascal Nabet Meyer - executive producers
Greg Penny, Roger Nicols, Mark Linett, Lavant Coppock, Roger Hart - engineer
Jose Esteban Martinez - front cover painting

References

1. ^{{cite web |work=CD Times |url=http://www.cdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=81 |title=The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld |date=2003-10-15 |last=McCusker |first=Eamonn |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060315153349/http://www.cdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=81 |archivedate=2006-03-15 |df= }}
2. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r10585|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
3. ^Robert Christgau review
4. ^[https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rickieleejones/albums/album/180532/review/5941837/flying_cowboys Rolling Stone review] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112164230/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rickieleejones/albums/album/180532/review/5941837/flying_cowboys |date=November 12, 2007 }}

External links

4 : Rickie Lee Jones albums|1989 albums|Geffen Records albums|Albums produced by Walter Becker

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