Flying Cowboys

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Flying Cowboys
Flying Cowboys cover
Studio album by Rickie Lee Jones
Released September 1989
Genre Rock
Length 55:17
Label Geffen
Producer Walter Becker
Professional reviews
Rickie Lee Jones chronology
The Magazine
(1984)		 Flying Cowboys
(1989)		 Pop Pop
(1991)

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

Contents

[edit] Genesis

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

Jones had been writing and working 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).

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed by Rickie Lee Jones; except where indicated

  1. "The Horses" (Walter Becker, Jones)
  2. "Just My Baby" (Jones, Pascal Nabet-Meyer)
  3. "Ghetto of My Mind" (Jones, Nabet-Meyer)
  4. "Rodeo Girl"
  5. "Satellites"
  6. "Ghost Train"
  7. "Flying Cowboys" (Sal Bernardi, Jones, Nabet-Meyer)
  8. "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (Les Chadwick, Leo Maguire, Gerry Marsden, Freddie Marsden)
  9. "Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive" (Jones, Nabet-Meyer)
  10. "Away from the Sky"
  11. "Atlas' Marker"

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
1989 The Billboard 200 39

Singles - Billboard

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


[edit] Personnel

[edit] Technical

  • Producer: Walter Becker
  • Engineers: Greg Penny, Roger Nicols, Mark Linett, Lavant Coppock, Roger Hart

[edit] Musicians

Rickie Lee Jones - synthesizer, vocals

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

[edit] Miscellanea

  • All of the songs on the album were originally copyrighted in 1986, except for "Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive" and "Ghetto of My Mind" (1987), "Flying Cowboys" (1988), and "Ghost Train" (1989).
  • The song "Beat Angels" was written along with the material on Flying Cowboys, but was not released until 1993 on the album Traffic from Paradise.
  • The original title of "The Horses" was "Wild Girl."