Rickie Lee Jones & The Sermon on Exposition Blvd.
This album, based on the book, The Words, will be released on February 6th, 2007, packaged in a beautiful, recycled paper case. A special edition will also be released, offering an expanded booklet, a 5.1 surround mix, an SACD version of the record, high-fidelity MP3's of the entire album, as well as a 50-minute DVD that documents the project from its beginning.

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"Jones' new album will be released by New West Records February 6, 2007. I've been playing it non-stop.. It's a breathtaking work, sure to be one of the most discussed and ingested records of next year; all those beautiful underground sentiments about Jesus and love.

"Music is love," Jeff Tweedy once said, which is what I've always believed, just as so many have believed "Jesus is love."

Jesus and music. Combine the two -- as Jones and her collaborators do on every track of Sermon -- and the result is something so rare it feels historic, necessary, and distinctly of its time, the way other classic mystic-beatnik albums like Horses and Astral Weeks and Nighthawks At The Diner and Late For The Sky screamed out of the sky with something important to say."

-- Jim Walsh

open digipack: back (left); front (right): click here to view enlargement of cover art


interior pages: Rickie singing (left); Peter Atanasoff and Rickie recording


Peter writing (left); (clockwise from upper left) Peter and Marc Chiat in the art studio, Rickie in New York City, producer Rob Schnapf with Rickie, and engineer Dough Boehm


Peter working with drummer, Jay Bellerose


Rickie on tour, 600 miles inside the Arctic Circle to perform songs from the new album


(clockwise from upper left) Marc Chiat, co-producer, Lee Cantelon, The Words, engineer Bernie Larsen with Peter; Joey Maramba, Rickie, Peter, and engineer Richard Shaw


(left) painting by Marc Chiat; (right) Rickie walking in South Central Los Angeles